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Significant investment has been made in IT project management skills over recent years, yet IT projects remain something of a high-risk and high-reward gamble. They offer large payoffs if they succeed, but often fall short of the promised benefits. What is Independent Project Oversight?
Independent Project Oversight (IPO) is a proven method for improving IT project delivery. IPO provides an independent review and analysis of the project focused on risk management and performance monitoring. The emphasis is on early identification of potential project issues and risks that can adversely affect the project or project components. Projects of different sizes and criticality require different levels of project oversight. tieBridge works closely with the client to determine what level of oversight is required.
Why do we need Independent Project Oversight?
- Protects stakeholders' investments
- Increases stakeholders' awareness and confidence in the state of the project
- Promotes project management maturity
- Produces valuable lessons learned
- Demonstrates stakeholder interest in the project
Our Independent Project Oversight Process
tieBridge's IPO assessment covers five basic areas of IT project management:
- Planning and Tracking
- Procurement
- Risk Management
- Communications
- Systems Engineering
Our consultants use a unique, analytical process to assess, document, and report their findings, conclusions, and recommendations in a formal report.
Successful Service Delivery
tieBridge's successful record of providing excellence in service delivery can be attributed to our diligence in the process of analyzing the requirements of a project, correlating them to specific skills and experience, and selecting the consultant best qualified to accomplish the project's requirements.
Our team members have significant experience as participants and reviewers of large public-sector IT projects. Our methodology includes risk analysis, planning, tracking, control, and communication of the results of each step. This approach ensures that the three major components typically required by government agencies (review and assessment, reporting, and tracking) are addressed.
Guiding Principle for Project Oversight
tieBridge prescribes a set of guiding principles for performing Project Oversight which provide the framework for our oversight engagements and ensure that our consultants maintain a consistent, customer-oriented approach.
- Protecting stakeholders' interests
- Provides an early warning indicator of issues and risks
- Using credible resources
- Taking a practical approach
- Tracking to resolution
- Consistency
- Fostering project management maturity
- Being critical and objective
- Leveraging industry standards and best practices
- Engaging early and often
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