Catalyst Project Solutions provides professional project management services that reduce costs and risks. Proper project management through detailed oversight and specifications ensures compliance, quality work, and avoids costly reworks or interruptions. It also reduces surprises through transparent reporting and properly drawn schedules. For project success, project management focuses on aligning the project mission and objectives, defining key metrics and deliverables, measuring progress, and managing client relationships, scope, schedule, quality and costs. Professional project management benefits organizations by improving delivery timelines, enhancing reputation through standardized delivery, enabling additional revenue opportunities, meeting compliance goals, reducing support, management overhead and travel costs, and minimizing disputes.

1. Catalyst
Project Solutions
Project Management Value Proposition
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party without the express written consent of Catalyst Project Solutions.

2. Why Professional Project
Management?
Reduced costs and reduced risks
“Tight” RFP’s/contracts insure proper scope, no
misunderstanding of terms, no cost overruns.
Detailed oversight of vendor activities insures compliance to
terms, quality work, and less chance of redo’s.
Proper specification of business process insures system that
functions, meets needs of business
No costly rework to make software work as needed
No interruption of business activities, no work around process that
increase staff workloads
Change and transition management insures minimal disruption
for new service implementation
Properly drawn schedules, work plans, resource plans, and risks
and issues reduce costly “surprises”
Transparent, accurate management reporting insures no
surprises in cost or schedule

3. Four Essential “M’s” for Project Success
• Mission
• Is the project aligned with strategic objectives?
• Do the SOW and statements of understanding support the project and its
objectives?
• Metrics
• What are the KPI’s?
• What are the major deliverables?
• Measurement
• How, what, and when are the metrics measured?
• Reporting, and executive review of trends, issues, and goals
• Management
• Client relationship and expectations
• Scope, schedule, quality, and costs
• Teams, suppliers, stakeholders
• Risks and issues

4. Benefits of Professional Project Management
Category Description Details When Realisable How Realisable Owner
Direct or
Indirect
Hard ($) or
Soft
Commercial Improved Delivery Time Increased speed to market of services because program period is reduced As services are migrated
Faster revenue
enjoyment
PMO Direct Hard
Commercial Reputation Provides for improved corporate reputation by enhancing and standardizing delivery
During deployment
activities
Predictable Deployments PMO Indirect Soft
Commercial
Standardized Delivery
Model
A delivery model that follows standardized processes During Program Startup More accurate cost model PMO Direct Hard
Commercial Revenue Opportunities Standardized processes to turn scope-creap into additional revenue streams
During deployment
activities
Additional revenue
streams
PMO Direct Hard
Compliance Standard HSE Policy
Existence and implementation of a standard Health, Safety & Environmental policy to
meet compliance goals
During delivery Decreased costs PMO Indirect Soft
Labour Customer Engagement
Provides for effective customer engagement with the use of experienced project
managers who possess business skills
During deployment
activities
Reduced deployment
costs
PMO Direct Soft
Labour Migration Support Reduction of support costs with a standardized and repeatable migration process During migration activities Reduced operating costs PMO Direct Hard
Labour Management Overhead Reduction of corporate management overhead to support contracts
During deployment
activities
Reduced operating costs PMO Direct Hard
Labour Geographic Flexibility
Ability to move the PMO into geographies where company may not have strong
deployment teams
During deployment
activities
Reduced operating costs
Corporate
management
Direct Soft
Labour Reduced travel expenses
There will be less requirement for corporate management to travel to customer sites
because program problems will be reduced
During migration activities Reduced operating costs PMO Direct Hard
Services Dispute Resolution Disputes from deployment activities are eliminated or minimized
During deployment
activities
Less corporate
management involvement
PMO Direct Soft

5. Thank You