Project Management: A Difficult Task Made Simple

Project management of any size IT projects is our specialty. We have a proven past record of successful completion of large scale IT projects in the Greek Public sector. We provide our customers with project managers, IT consultants, and in some cases, we may provide part or whole of the IT solution (e.g., hardware, software, training and installation).

Successful project management is vital to the completion of our customers' IT projects. We have the skills to complete a project on time and under budget, without compromising quality targets.

Standardized Project Management Methodology

For each project undertaken, a standardized methodology is followed:

1. Define things up front. Specify the objectives, resources, client responsibilities, and deadlines right at the start.
2. Communicate clearly. Project documents are precise and convey only the information needed.
3. Delegate early. When needed, project work is delegated to key players so more than one mind is at work.
4. Build a team. This means understanding who the players are, their  needs, strengths, weaknesses, desires, and other aspects. Our project managers do not just assign bodies and depend on a "star" or two to carry out the work of the day.
5. Organize and manage information. Our project managers and team members are fluent with ISO 9001 quality procedures.
6. Use the WBS for planning and execution. Our Work Breakdown Structure is far more than a project document. It allows our project managers to save enormous amounts of time and to make correct decisions on staffing, scheduling, and supplying.
7. Give everyone ownership of something. People do better work when they own it. Each member of our team feels important and is held accountable for something.
8. Replace wasted steps with value-added. We continuously examine project processes to eliminate steps that are pure cost.
9. Prevent chargebacks. Think about projects where your tradeworkers had to tear out what another team's tradeworkers did, and then pay a chargeback for the rework--for example, tearing outa wall to add some electrical work and then repairing the wall. Our project management skills and methodology prevent this.
10. Make the customer our ally. By explaining to the customer what they can do to help our project managers meet objectives, deadlines, cost-control, and quality standards, we come out way ahead.

Selected Customer Projects

• Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority
  Budget: 5.900.000 EURO

Participation in the project management for the implementation of the Aeronautical Information Services project. The system will be installed in 54 Greek airports and is expected to be delivered in 12 months.

• Greek Ministry of Justice Digital Recording of Court Trials
  Budget: 8.800.000 EURO

Project management for the installation of digital recorders in 92 courtrooms all over Greece and typing of trials minutes for 4 years.

• Athens Water Supply and Sewage Authority GIS/FM Project
  Budget: 2.000.000 EURO

Project management for the installation of Intergraph’s facilities management GIS system, which the Athens Water Supply and Sewage Authority will use to manage its water pipes network. The system comprises multiple servers, all connected (either offline or online) to a distributed database. The servers are installed at various Water Authority locations and are interconnected using a WAN.

• Greek Ministry of Public Order Wide Area Network
  Budget: 1.700.000 EURO

Project management for the design and installation of LAN and WAN infrastructure in 101 locations all over Greece. The project involved the coordination of 40 engineers.

• Greek Ministry of Health Local Area Network for 24 Hospitals
  Budget: 3.500.000 EURO

Project management for the design and installation of local networks in several buildings of each of 24 national health system hospitals.

• Greek Ministry of Justice MIS Systems for Athens District Attorney’s Office
  Budget: 4.100.000 EURO

Project management for the installation of state-of-the-art IT computer and networking equipment as well as the development of complete MIS systems, each of more than 1.900.000 lines of code.