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Project Governance & Steering
In our long-standing company history, we have reviewed over 400 projects to assess the maturity of project management, governance, and organization. We support you in quickly identifying and adjusting the key levers and in establishing adequate and effective project governance together with project leadership and stakeholders, ensuring roles are understood and core responsibilities are fulfilled.
As another essential success factor, we prioritize effective project risk management to ensure the success of your endeavors within planned timelines and budgeted costs.
Maturity Assessment
We apply our extensive experience to assess the maturity level of your project management together with you and identify the crucial levers. This ensures that your project proceeds safely and successfully.
The assessment of project management maturity is based on various criteria such as accuracy of planning, risk management, resource management, and communication. A high level of maturity is characterized by precise planning, proactive risk management, efficient resource utilization, and transparent and audience-appropriate communication for efficient decision-making. Pragmatica often employs well-tested interview and analysis concepts to quickly and accurately determine the important and urgent action points.
Project Steering & Assurance
We ensure that your project management operates effectively.
We assist you in ensuring that the understanding of the various roles and responsibilities in project management is clear and effectively executed. In doing so, we work with you to establish key prerequisites, including ensuring that adequate and sufficient information is provided to those responsible in project management in a timely manner.
For the sustainable success of your project, we also offer to take responsibility for effective project assurance as part of the management. We have fulfilled this function in a variety of small and large engagements, continuously refining and testing our approach and methods.
Project Risk Management
We establish effective risk management with you as part of the management responsibility.
Project risk management is a crucial component of project management, aiming to identify, assess, control, and monitor potential risks to ensure that a project successfully achieves its objectives.
It is essential that the management stakeholders receive sufficient information and effectively fulfill their management responsibilities, including early risk detection, risk assessment, planning and implementation of risk response measures, and monitoring the success of implemented actions. Pragmatica has extensive expertise to sharpen awareness of this aspect and possesses industry-specific knowledge of methods, processes, and tools to effectively embed these critical tasks in management.
Establishing adequate project governance and effective control is crucial for the success of a project. It is important to establish structures and clear rules to ensure that the project is efficiently and effectively guided to success. Among other things, we support you with:
- Definition of project objectives
- Definition of critical project roles and staffing (project team and governance), as well as ensuring the fulfillment of these roles
- Establishment of communication and reporting structures within the project
- Establishment of timely decision-making processes.
- Introduction of effective project risk and issue management
- Monitoring and controlling project progress
- Establishment and operation of the change management process (scope, time, cost)
- Documentation standards and documentation.
- Establishment of a continuous improvement process
- Training and coaching of your employees as needed
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Success Stories
Project Management Professionalisation Swiss Bank
Further development and professionalisation of the project management method.
- Further develop and professionalise the PM method and the associated tools and templates.
- At the same time, project governance had to be adapted to a changed organisational structure with new and reassigned roles and responsibilities.
- In addition, the range of services offered by the central PMO has been expanded with offers for effective support of projects in the start-up phase.
PM Toolbox and Project Procedure Swiss Startup
Establish a project management framework – professional project management framework thanks to appropriate project governance
- Assessment of the existing project governance
- Adapting the project approach method to the client’s needs and creating a PM toolbox with all the necessary templates
- Establish a central project management office (PMO) for the implementation of the standardised project procedure and project controlling
Project Management Framework Swiss Bank
Introduction of IT project governance – project success thanks to structured and controllable procedure.
- Definition and development of a general IT project management framework
- Implement project guidelines, processes, project portfolio reporting, training and a support centre.
- Develop and implement a management tool
Project Management Training
Training of employees in all project management competencies. Very heterogeneous participant group (project managers, asset managers, HR, legal, etc.).
- 40 participants from CH, LUX & SIN
- Training conducted onsite and remotely
- Enablement and training of the participants in all project management disciplines from initalisation to conclusion
- Including an overview on agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban etc.)
- Very high practical relevance
Project Risk Management Training
The digitalization program of a major Swiss reinsurer has identified potentials for improvement in project risk management in the course of past projects. As part of a team offsite, a project risk management training was planned and conducted by Pragmatica experts to share best practices in the area of:
- Establishment of a risk culture and early problem detection within the project
- Development and implementation of effective and pragmatic risk management and reporting approaches (decision-making capability)
- Definition and implementation of risk response strategies aligned with management’s risk appetite
- Ensuring sufficient ownership and support from all responsible parties for the implementation of risk response strategies
- Support for compliance (including FINMA RS 2301, RZ 29)