Project & Programme management
Project and Programme management are vital: the key differentiators between success and failure.
Every Black Dog consultant has in excess of 20 years' experience in the practical management of IT and information projects. As well as formal methods such as PRINCE2 and DSDM we bring a wealth of knowledge and proven techniques with an unparalleled record of success across commercial and government
organizations
Black Dog also brings its own set of tools for risk analysis, progress monitoring, and stakeholder management - again developed and honed in practice on projects ranging from multi-million pound IT implementations to small-scale office refurbishment.
Too often "programme management" is used to mean managing sets of disparate projects. A true Programme is complex and multithreaded and requires not just skill and expertise but a real deep understanding of how the programme moves the organization forward: what Deming characterised as "profound knowledge".
A technical success with disaffected users is not a success. The needs and well-being of the stakeholders must be embedded in the programme and each project from the very start.
We also firmly believe that success comes from doing simple things very well too - and challenging assumptions is something we are very good at indeed.
R Buckminster Fuller