Project Management

Pacolet, SC, South Carolina, Contract Program Manager

IT Project Management

IT projects have many unique aspects. All too often, projects proceed with less than adequate up-front planning. As new requirements emerge throughout the project, managers and developers make costly changes. Communication among all project stakeholders may be limited by company culture, inexperience, or fear of discussing a project's shortcomings. More than many other disciplines, information technology projects routinely suffer from unstructured practices, leading to costly mistakes and delays.

Project Management Discipline

The same structured techniques applied to building skyscrapers, airliners, and bridges can be applied to software development. General-purpose, economical project management software has tremendous capabilities which can be applied to manage IT projects. The same project management discipline proven effective over the years can be equally effective managing your business technology. Why then, do IT projects so often suffer from project management problems.

IT-Specific Experience

Productive Technology believes the answer lies in the rapidly advancing tools and technologies we use to build our systems, combined with the relentless drive businesses have to speed solutions to delivery to meet regulations, maintain competitive position, or achieve competitive advantage. Managers often simply do not take enough time to plan, research, prototype, evaluate, and adjust course.

IT projects benefit from leadership by a project manager with a successful track record managing IT projects. So many critical situations unique to IT can occur, and experience counts. Productive Technology's consulting project manager explains the issues, accurately tracks and reports progress, facilitates decisions, and constantly adjusts the tasks, resources, and schedule using consummate skill and appropriate project management tools.

Technology to Manage Technology

You consulting project manager will be skilled in these specialized technical areas related to managing IT projects:

• Source Code Control
• Specification Change Control
• Project Management Software (MS Project)

Productive Technology can help your to manage your IT projects. We can custom-tailor our flexible consulting services to suit your requirements and budget. Contact Productive Technology today to learn more about how we can help you.