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Project Management Solutions News Archive 2006

PM Solutions Launches New Service to Support Remote Project Management


PM Solutions' Remote Project Controls Service offers demand-based resources to help companies streamline the data-intensive aspects of maintaining critical project details

HAVERTOWN, PA (Jan. 31, 2006) – PM Solutions, the leading provider of project management consulting, training, and research, has launched a new service to help companies maximize the accuracy and speed of project planning, tracking, reporting, and decision-making.

PM Solutions' Remote Project Controls service gives project managers the freedom to focus on business objectives while offloading responsibilities that lie outside of core competencies. In addition, it enables project managers to deliver better project continuity, greater levels of implementation consistency, and more accurate reporting information – plus the flexibility to scale project staff up or down using on-demand resources.

PM Solutions developed the service in response to industry demand for a reliable third-party solution for the management of daily project details. According to a recent study by the Center for Business Practices titled Project Control Functions: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices, half of the respondents reported that their organizations perform project control functions average to poorly. The most challenging functions include educating the project team on proper project management processes, estimating project costs, and managing the process of issue, risk, and change control.

How Remote Project Controls Works
PM Solutions' project controllers work off-site using their own facilities, technology, tools, and processes. Data is housed at PM Solutions' Remote Project Controls Center, which is based in suburban Cincinnati, OH. Built upon more than a decade of both onsite and virtual project management expertise, PM Solutions has structured the Remote Project Controls Center to combine the strengths of expert project controllers, state-of-the-art project management software, established processes, and a secure facility in the domestic US to deliver superior project controls support.

Through ongoing, secure, real-time communications portals, PM Solutions' project controllers and the organizations' project managers work in tandem to complete projects successfully. Organizations get 24-hour project control support, regardless of their time zones or locations.

"Companies are beginning to realize that day-to-day project control functions suffer when they're assimilated into other project management duties. Many, though, lack the resources to train someone to manage these specific duties," said Dave Yosua, PMP, director of remote project management for PM Solutions. "Our Remote Project Controls capabilities take the burden of day to day schedule and budget tracking off our clients' project managers. This gives project managers more quality time to spend with executives in explaining status, gaining insight into political and budgetary issues, and actually using the project data collected by our controls experts to make sound project decisions that affect their business."

Typical project control functions available with this service include:

  • Developing the project schedule and work breakdown structure
  • Managing the critical path to ensure schedules are met
  • Estimating project costs
  • Tracking and analyzing project costs
  • Managing the process of issue, risk, and change control
  • Documenting and delivering project status information

About PM Solutions
PM Solutions is a management consulting, training, and research firm dedicated to helping companies optimize business performance and successfully execute their strategies through project management improvement initiatives. Core services include on-demand project and program staffing, remote project controls support, project portfolio management, organizational project management maturity assessments, process and methodology development, project office deployment and enhancement, value measurement, and corporate training delivered through the PM College® (www.pmcollege.com). Headquartered near Philadelphia, Pa., USA, PM Solutions' diverse client roster includes some of the world's leading organizations.