Certified Project Management Group, LLC
Discover the Power of Project Controls Integration with CPMG...
CPMG is the independent consultancy of James Kemp, PMP, founded in 2003, with a focus on reducing project failures through the application of good system engineering practice, proper planning and effective project controls. CPMG is a champion of advanced project management techniques to help project teams excel.
A system engineering perspective covers the whole environment of the project - not just the product to be delivered - but usability, maintenance procedures, organizational change, complexity, training, stakeholders, support personnel, interfaces, infrastructure, communications, life cycle cost, the contract, the construction schedule, scope management, requirements traceability, and more – together with the risks and potential impacts and benefits to the business.
Project controls provide a safety net for the project team - early warning of impending problems - through schedule analysis, cost control, forecasting and effective project risk management.
Project Controls Integration (PM-PCI) ties together Budgeting, Accruals, Scheduling, Forecasting, Resource Management, Risk Management, Contract Management, Status Reporting, Scorecard Metrics and Change Control through the effective use of a detailed cost and resource-loaded project schedule. Past are the days of explaining variances from uncertain single point estimates. Now, uncertainty in cost and schedule estimation is deliberately exposed and explicitly recognized. Past are the days of separate reports from contractors and suppliers to separate teams of project managers, cost control specialists, risk managers and schedulers. Now, a single integrated team of project managers and schedulers coordinates with suppliers to maintain a comprehensive cost loaded schedule from which status, risks, forecasts and accruals are readily reported on a weekly basis - and forensic claims analyses are supported with ease.
