PCM Service: Project Management

PCM Service: Project Management

1.Integration

• Ensures that various project elements are coordinated effectively
• Key processes include developing the project charter, project management plan, directing and managing project work, monitoring and controlling project work, and closing the project or phase.

2.Scope

• Defines and controls what is included and excluded in the project
• Key processes involve planning scope management, collecting requirements, defining scope, creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), validating scope, and controlling scope.

3.Time

• Ensures timely completion of the project.
• Key processes include planning schedule management, defining activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity durations, developing the schedule, and controlling the schedule.

4.Cost

• Ensures the project is completed within the approved budget.
• Key processes involve planning cost management, estimating costs, determining the budget, and controlling costs.

5.Quality

• Ensures the project meets the required quality standards. Key processes include planning quality management, managing quality, and controlling quality.

6.Human Resources

• Organizes, manages, and leads the project team. Key processes include planning resource management, estimating activity resources, acquiring resources, developing the team, managing the team, and controlling resources.

7.Communication

• Ensures timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and the ultimate disposition of project information. Key processes involve planning communications management, managing communications, and monitoring communications.

8.Risk

• Identifies, analyzes, and responds to project risks. Key processes include planning risk management, identifying risks, performing qualitative risk analysis, performing quantitative risk analysis, planning risk responses, implementing risk responses, and monitoring risks.

9.Procurement

• Acquires goods and services from outside the project organization. Key processes involve planning procurement management, conducting procurements, controlling procurements, and closing procurements.

PCM Service: Software

PCM Service: Software

1.Oracle Primavera P6 / MS Project

• Scheduling

2.Oracle Risk Analysis

• Risk Management

3.Deltek Acuman

• Schedule Check and Claims

4.Infinitrac

• Document Control

PCM Service: Planning & Control

PCM Service: Planning & Control

PCM Service: Risk Management 

PCM Service: Risk Management 

PCM Service: Building Information Model 

PCM Service: Building Information Model 

PCM Service: BIM 

PCM Service: BIM 

• 2D and 3D model with object elements
• 4D Model

PCM Service: Quality Management

PCM Service: Quality Management

1.Quality Planning

• This involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

2.Defining Quality Objectives: 

• Establishing what constitutes a quality outcome for the project.

3.Quality Metrics:

• Identifying and defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics that will measure project quality.

4.Standards and Regulations: 

• Ensuring that the project complies with relevant industry standards and regulatory requirements.

5.Quality Management Plan: 

• Documenting how the project will achieve its quality objectives, including roles and responsibilities, resources, and timelines.

6.Process Audits:

• Regularly reviewing project processes to ensure they are being followed correctly and effectively.

7.Quality Reviews: 

• Conducting periodic reviews to assess project performance and compliance with quality standards.

8.Continuous Improvement: 

• Implementing a continuous improvement approach, often using methodologies like Six Sigma or Total Quality Management (TQM).

9.Quality Control:

• This involves monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes. It includes:

• Inspections:Physical inspections of project deliverables to ensure they meet the required quality standards.
• Testing:Conducting tests to verify that project outputs meet specified criteria.
• Defect Management: Identifying, documenting, and addressing defects or variances from quality standards.
• Quality Control Tools:Utilizing tools such as control charts, Pareto charts, cause-and-effect diagrams, and histograms to analyze and control quality.

PCM Service: Legal and Claims

PCM Service: Legal and Claims

1.Legal Management:

• Involves managing legal aspects such as contracts, compliance with laws and regulations, intellectual property rights, and dispute resolution.

2.Contract Management: 

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts with vendors, clients, and subcontractors to ensure that terms are clear and enforceable.

3.Regulatory Compliance: 

• Ensuring that the project adheres to relevant laws, regulations, and standards.

4.Dispute Resolution: 

• Managing disputes through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation to resolve conflicts.

5.Risk Management: 

• Identifying and mitigating legal risks that could impact the project.

1.Claim Management 

• Involves handling claims related to delays, cost overruns, and performance issues. This ensures that any claims made by or against the project are managed efficiently and fairly.

2.Claims Identification:

• Recognizing potential claims early in the project lifecycle.

3.Documentation: 

• Keeping detailed records of events, communications, and transactions that may lead to a claim.

4.Claims Analysis:

• Evaluating the validity, impact, and potential outcomes of claims.

5.Litigation Support: 

• Providing support in case of legal action related to claims.