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Large complex programs and projects, especially those affecting mission critical systems and operations, require careful evaluation and continuous risk monitoring throughout their life cycles to ensure success. We provide an efficient, economical “early warning system” to the managers of organizations engaged in large complex projects of all kinds. Examples include converting from one computer system to another, re-engineering internal processes or integrating the businesses of an acquired institution. Project risk management may be impaired for a number of reasons.

• Executive management for large projects is often disbursed among several individuals who will avoid actions that could be perceived as policing the activities of a peer.

• Line management may lack the time to regularly assess risks to the project and the authority to manage across the breadth of them.

• Project management is a discipline distinctly different than running the business itself. It may not be well-known to, or often not practiced by, otherwise capable line management.

• Project managers, if internally employed, may be too involved in the creation and execution of the project plan to be reliable critics of the process.

• Internal risk management and audit personnel are seldom project management professionals, may lack the subject matter expertise to be effective, and are likely to be consumed by important business-as-usual activities.

We can provide unbiased assessments of significant projects to managers, steering committees, risk management and audit as project management experts independent from internal organizations and external vendors. As part of each engagement, Antaean Solutions:

• Agrees on topics, audience, and timing for report cards as well as escalation rules based on the organization’s methodology,
• Evaluates and make recommendations about people, processes and technology during project execution, and
• Arbitrates disagreements between the company and its vendors at all major milestones and established checkpoints during and between major phases of the project if desired.

During the planning phases of the project, we will evaluate and make recommendations for:

• Project description
• Scope planning and definition
• Activity definition
• Schedule development
• Resource planning
• Cost estimates and the budget
• Quality planning
• Communications planning
• Risk management planning