project management consulting

Offshore Project Management Consulting

Effectively manage large-scale, growth-generating business initiatives with Project Management Consulting.

Challenge
To cultivate growth and achieve success, enterprises must occasionally manage large projects while reducing the potential risks, and regularly manage small projects while maintaining focus on the main corporate goals. To do both, corporate America needs a systemized approach to managing business-change efforts so that they utimately achieve the best results.

Solution
SolovatSoft provides both its customers with the program- and project-management services necessary to reach the business opportunities and optimize the use of IT resources.

We define programs as a coherent group of projects, each small enough to be reliably managed for success, and coordinated to achieve well-defined strategic goals. We consistently organize and manage programs and projects  for identifying, prioritizing and selecting appropriate projects, coupled with Project Management Methodology (PMM) to support their successful execution.

These methodologies reduce uncertainty through the consistent replication of proven processes. Success is predicated on experience and knowledge gained from previous successful projects, and project management employs careful planning, deep understanding of the current and future business environment, effective resource management, and mitigation of perceived risk.

Offshore Project Management

A project is a temporary activity that delivers a certain product or service.
- Typically a project is launched to meet a specific business goal.
- A project is always a temporary set of activities. It has a clearly defined deliverables and a start and end date.
- A project always begins with a clear objective and stakeholders.

When we work on a software development project our PM team follows not only the best project management practice, but also software development methodologies that our development team uses.
Most Software development projects are similar to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which includes 5 main phases: planning, analysis, design, implementation and release to production and support.

SolovatSoft dev team follows the basic principles of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) as well as depending on the project may apply the popular now XP, RAD or even Agile development approaches. This is a de-facto leading standard for software development methodology, used by the leading companies in the IT field. Companies like Microsoft and IBM are partnering with Rational to make use of RUP and create joint products supporting RUP.

The core ideas of RUP (iterative development, sustainability to changes, careful QA and risk management, etc.) are very much suitable for our situation, in which we often work with dynamic business cases. On the diagram, the horizontal trends represent activities. The graph shows the amount of activity spent in each phase. On the whole, the graph illustrates how various activities (efforts) are spent among various project phases.