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Our Services

From initiation to implementation we have the experience and infrastructure to take your project to realization and celebration.

Today’s markets work at great speed, and the demand on delivery expectations is ever increasing.  Scope creep, mismanaged resources and poor analysis greatly reduce the ability to satisfy a needy market on time with quality product, and can effectively serve up market share on a plate, to competitors.

Our experienced Project Managers, coupled with cutting edge collaborative technologies ensure that your projects are managed and implemented with total clarity and minimal waste, and that your strategy becomes an effective and timely reality.

The key benefit of engaging Arbuckle Consulting – The Open Vendor, comes from our focus on web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies to manage a project environment virtually.  Our collaborative virtual environment means your project team has a central, real-time responsive community area in which to share project assets and best practices, gather real-time feedback and assessment, track progress and ensure a faster project realization time than traditional in-house processes.

Arbuckle Consulting creates, manages and maintains theCMBOK , a comprehensive body of knowledge around Collaboration Management.  TheCMBOK training offering speaks to our drive towards delivering business results, with a focus on the network as a platform to scale your business processes.

We engage a range of talented and experienced professionals, from project managers and analysts versed in project management, right through to media creatives to ensure that your project is aligned with the right team.  Contact us to discover how we can collaborate with your business to get that all-important market edge.

Below is a list of current services we provide, click on the bold headings to find out more information.

We’re not talking pokes, likes or Farmville here!  Our collaborative virtual environment means your project teams have a central, real-time responsive community area in which to share project assets and best practices, gather real-time feedback and assessment, track progress and ensure a faster project realization time than traditional in-house processes.

The virtual environment allows you to:

  • Store and edit documents
  • Open and comment on discussion threads
  • Assign privileges and permissions to certain information
  • Assemble members in different groups for information sharing
  • Gain feedback from polls
  • Keep an up to date project blog
  • Monitor progress in real-time
  • Tag and bookmark documents for ease of search and order
  • Run a global team from a central repository

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For an organization relying primarily on projects to implement strategy, and needing to make a rapid improvement, we can provide any or all of the following services:

1. Project Management Maturity Assessment & Roadmap

2. PMO Design, set-up, knowledge transfer and/or support

3. Project portfolio strategy, design, and/or management

4. Project management methodology & tools, customized for your team, with a WBS template for each project type

5. Communications & reporting techniques

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Starting up a project is often more challenging than running it once it’s off to a good start. For critical or large projects, engage us to get your project off on the right foot.  We’ll leave you with processes, templates, and knowledge transfer that will benefit your other projects as well.

  • Initiation Questionnaire, Project Chartering process & template
  • Project Planning process & templates for scheduling, issues & risk management, cost tracking, and communications
  • Status reporting process and templates (including executive dashboard)
  • The work breakdown structure for the project – in a way that this knowledge is transferable and reusable
  • Collaboration site for the project for status reporting, document management, collaboration, and more

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Our flexibility means you can bring us on at any point in a project’s lifecycle, to help improve your return on the cost, benefit, and schedule.

  • Ensure your use project management software is delivering enough benefits to the team
  • Just-in-time coaching on ways to manage scope, risks, and issues, as well as meetings management
  • Improvements to how status is reported and intra- and inter-team communications occur
  • For a project in trouble, we can create the action plan for project recovery and get the stakeholders re-engaged, the risks re-assessed, and the scope, schedule and budgets recommitted

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Towards the end of a project everyone gets distracted by their next project as well as the urgency of final deliverables.  Engage us to help leverage the lessons learned ensuring that your next project becomes familiar territory.

  • We can collect the feedback and run the project close-out phase for you, or
  • We can conduct a stakeholder survey, organize the team to get through a close-out checklist, and facilitate the project close-out report so that lessons learned are shared effectively

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Help when you need it most.  For your larger projects, we can provide skilled coordinators to support your project managers by focusing on scheduling, or meeting management, for example.

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Knowledge is at it’s most powerful when shared.  We are experts in interpreting the PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge) for practical executives.

We run a number of workshops to enlighten and educate your team to ensure your projects run smarter.

Workshops topics include:

  • how project management practices benefit the executive
  • why and how a PMO can succeed
  • the key issues during project start-up
  • the details of how to plan out a project so that benefits are realized within the budget and schedule

We are also expert at virtual teaming and collaboration so for an organization new at this we have a wealth of tips and tricks to convey.

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