Project Health Assessments
Pioneered work products are either developed from scratch or leveraged from experiences or material from non CC&B/WAM/EBS implementations and often yield unpredictable, inefficient, or flawed results.
One of Blue Herons most widely heralded service offerings is our Project Health Assessment Reviews. Large enterprise project failures cost organizations millions of dollars in cost and schedule overruns. On average, over 60% of enterprise software projects are delivered late, over budget or both.
Classic symptoms that cause project failures include:
- Excessive project cash-burn rates due to poor resource deployment techniques
- Time and materials versus fixed pricing; the inability to hold vendors accountable for poor quality
- Insufficient attention to project-readiness criteria at the start of a project
- Excessive pioneering -- too many resources on a project that lack requisite skills and experience with the software product
- Insufficient utilization of tools, templates, and accelerators exercised and proven on other comparable projects
- Lack of project governance and quality assurance
Our health assessment experts will conduct in-depth interviews with key project leaders including Project Sponsors, Project Director, Business and Technical Leads, Application Project Manager, and other project personnel. Interviews focus on gathering information to assess the key project areas including, but not limited to, the following:
- System Implementation Delivery Model Infrastructure (Hardware/Environment Creation and Sizing, Tools, etc.)
- Reporting
- CIS Business/Technical Configuration
- Data Conversion
- Interfaces
- Testing
- Training
- Knowledge Transfer
- Project Management Office
The output of the assessment includes evaluation scoring on the following three main criterions:
- Completeness and quality of key project documents (artifacts)
- Quality, skill, and experience of key project resources
- Degree of pioneering in each respective area being scored
Our health assessment experts leverage an extensive database that contains valuable information on common threads observed on both successful and failed projects. Our findings and recommendations based on our health assessment can provide powerful guidance on how to implement the necessary best practices to get your project back on track by treating the root cause of common symptoms that plague large system implementations.
Working with Blue Heron will help ensure that your enterprise software implementation project is completed successfully, on time and on budget every time.
Services
- Customer Information Systems CIS systems enable service providers to handle new billing tariffs, meter equipment, and alternate energy options. Smart grid is one of those game changing events like Y2K.
- Work and Asset Management (WAM) From Synergen to WAM, Blue Heron’s WAM practice has been proving implementation and support services since the late 1990’s.
- Smart Grid Smart grids deliver electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology to save energy, reduce cost and increase reliability and transparency. Such a modernized electricity network is being promoted by many governments as a way of addressing energy independence, global warming and emergency resilience issues.
- Enterprise Resource Planning Blue Heron Consulting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Practice enables organizations to leverage their investment in leading E-Business applications from Oracle and PeopleSoft.
- Managed Services: Blue Heron’s Managed Services focuses on minimizing one of the most important IT metrics – Total Cost of Ownership. With up to 70% of total application costs represented by support and maintenance of an application after it is moved to production, a proven and reliable services organization dedicated to driving cost down is paramount to ongoing business success.
- Project Health Assessments Pioneered work products are either developed from scratch or leveraged from experiences or material from non CC&B/WAM/EBS implementations and often yield unpredictable, inefficient, or flawed results.
- Training /eLearning: The key to the design and roll out of a successful training program lies in following a proven instructional systems design. The ADDIE model, one of the most widely used instructional systems design approach, is employed by Blue Heron to ensure that the training solution meets the training need.
- Data Migration Services Efficient data migration from legacy CIS environments is the single most important factor to implementation success and often represents a project’s critical path. Blue Heron’s data migration services are founded on early collaborative planning, data inspection, and iterative testing to build a solid foundation for attaining financial balancing and continuity of business operations.
- Geographic Information Systems GIS systems enable customers to integrate hardware, software, workflow and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.
