While Prairie Quest Consulting has logged hundreds of project management success stories, no two plans have ever been alike. That’s because we believe every project and every customer’s needs are unique. Partner with us and benefit from our industry best practices, toolbox of templates, and expert team of project managers, analysts, technologists, and executives.
Repeatable processes at every phase
While we avoid the “one-size-fits-all” approach often associated with project management, Prairie Quest strongly promotes repeatable processes. As such, during each phase of the life cycle, we engage a standardized life cycle with project management templates. Repeatable processes help you to:
- avoid pitfalls
- enhance the success of current and future initiatives
- more accurately size and scale initiatives
The Prairie Quest project management process
Phase 1: Project initiation
In this phase, it’s critical that you precisely define and understand the project scope without getting bogged down in the requirements, risks, and administrative documentation. At the same time, breezing through the initiation project can encourage scope creep, uncontrolled change management, and increased risk. Our Prairie Quest project initiation documentation, following the PMBOK, addresses all of your concerns by defining your requirements and project success definitions as well as formalizing initial communications.
Phase 2: Project planning
Prairie Quest project managers recognize that creative thoughts begin early and work diligently to bring them into the formal phase known as Project Planning. No matter your plans—whether you’re outsourcing a program, developing a new product, constructing a new building, deploying an integrated enterprise system, capturing work breakdown, understanding resourcing needs, formalizing requirements, or testing documents—Prairie Quest’s suite of templated documents will assist your team in finalizing those plans and moving into the execution phase.
Phase 3: Project execution
Delivering your project on time, on budget, and based on your requirements is what Prairie Quest does best. During this phase, our project managers focus on clearly defining requirements related to quality validation steps. We review issues and report progress with easy-to-read stoplight charts that manage and mitigate risk. We’re also alert to changes that occur at this phase and understand the difference between a minor tweak and a major shift in project scope and direction.
Phase 4: Project closure
Moving into the final stages, Prairie Quest verifies that the project changes defined early on are properly implemented, issues are resolved, and the final training and handoff steps are completed. A critical part of the closure phase is reviewing the “lessons learned” plans that our seasoned project managers have logged along the way. In addition, we’ll define and discuss all future opportunities, and wrap up the initiative with a well-documented, sustainable program.
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