We recommend that you leverage our industry best practices to accelerate the development of your own methods. We provide this service even to organizations who may not have our software products. We build a detailed definition of your methodology requirements and then lead your organization through the process of implementing that methodology. Our consultants are experts in the design and implementation of development processes. They work with your staff to integrate the industry's best practices contained in Synergy/Framework with those developed by your organization. We pay special attention to implementing a set of processes that ensure the continuous improvement of your methodology and supporting materials.

Do you need to jump start a project and cut the upfront time for project set up and approval from 4-6 weeks to one week? The flexible nature of this workshop makes it ideal at project startup, at the start of a new development phase, or when a project needs to be rescued. Rapid Project Plan is a highly focused Project Management consultative workshop that uses Microsoft Project 2003 and CMD Symphony and leverages the knowledgebase of CMD’s Industry Best Practices or your organization's internal methods to help you accelerate the development of realistic project plans including tasks, resources, estimates, risk identification and major deliverables. RPP ensures that the team members and key stakeholders share a common and clear understanding of their mission, roles, risks and steps defined in their plans. RPP workshop combines Project Management principles with process management to accelerate the development of an actual project plan and major deliverables for your project. It is a very focused and "time-boxed" approach that combines the elements of training with the best practices to create actual project deliverables. Participants understand the basics of Project Management and how its principles are applied to their specific project and assignments.

Microsoft Project 2003 can greatly assist you in better managing your projects across the organization.  But, tools are not all that are required.  Setting up a Project or Program Management Office (PMO) will also require organizational changes along with new policies and procedures to initiating and controlling projects.  CMD's PMO Deployment process utilizes a structured approach for setting up a PMO within your organization. By using our services in this area you will also be able to leverage our Project Management Lifecycle methodology that also has many document templates that will help you reduce time and establish a standard set of deliverables.

We work with you to develop a practical and pragmatic plan for establishing a project and process management program. This plan is based on a number of factors including management expectations, organizational readiness and development profile as well as the current state of methodology and project management in your environment. We leverage our methodology processes for this specific area to ensure success and speed of implementation.

Group techniques are becoming critical to the completion of quality models and other systems development work products. Our staff is professionally trained in all forms of group facilitation, including process mapping, Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) and Joint Application Design (JAD).

Our consultants are experienced in all aspects of strategic systems planning and architecture development. Based on your own unique business, we collect and utilize information about business goals, objectives, success factors, constraints and functions. We then work with you to closely align information architectures and project priorities with business goals and objectives.

We have a staff of talented data and process modelers. We function as a part of your project team, and add our analysis skills to those on your staff. Data and process models form the foundation for your applications and our experienced consultants understand the implications of decisions and tradeoffs made during model development.

We are well versed in the infrastructure needs of large IS organizations. We can provide you with services in the area of tool selection, tool integrations, repository administration and other critical areas. We can show you how to integrate architectures, models and schedules across projects. We can also develop standards, policies and techniques that fit your unique development environment.

Our staff of experienced information systems professionals can help you with all of your staff augmentation needs - providing the manpower you need within your budget. We specialize in project management, development tools, database design and implementation, GUI design and coding, and web based application development.