Cost Estimation and Lifecycle Planning

 Project Monitoring and Control

Risk Management

Program Assessment 

Portfolio Management 

Acquisition Support 

Project Management Office Implementation 

Quality Assurance

Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)

Technology Assessment, Alignment and Implementation

Canateo’s principal consultants have broad portfolio, program and project (PPP) management experience. Our expertise has been developed over years of hands-on program leadership and through measurably improving PPP capabilities of organizations in the federal government and travel, telecommunications, insurance and financial sectors. Canateo’s PPP management services focus on the detailed analysis of project and organizational requirements, implementation of appropriate practices and monitoring of the resulting performance.

Cost Estimation and Lifecycle Planning

Cost estimation continues to be a challenge to both IT and management professionals.  Due to high level of cost volatility, clients need an estimation process that works to uncover its sources, quantify it, and explicitly carry it forward into subsequent estimates.  Once estimates are established, we use high level and detailed planning techniques to establish and manage commitments, identify and track dependencies, and communicate and coordinate activities across stakeholders.

Project Monitoring and Control

Successful IT managers know that once they pass the planning stages of a project, vast majority of work involves monitoring and controlling events once the processes are underway.  Project success depends on mitigating cost and event uncertainty, tracking critical developments and reacting in an appropriate and timely fashion.  We help clients identify the key project deliverables to track, establish intermediate goals that will provide early performance signals, and create indicators that are easy to interpret and are useful when making a case for action to other stakeholders.

Risk Management

The discipline of risk management is necessary in any project, program or portfolio management situation.  In spite of being a part of engineering for decades, many managers still struggle to implement risk management effectively, whereby the most critical risks are identified and disposition in a cost effective and useful way. Our practical and time tested techniques are a useful part of our program assessments and they can provide managers a technique to use regularly on critical projects.

Portfolio Management

Our Portfolio Management capability aims to aid a wide range of clients, including those in the financial services, banking, insurance, travel and hospitality sectors and branches of the US government in managing massive IT portfolios of projects, programs and services. Our focus is on improving the client’s IT capabilities, monitoring the quantitative process of the IT investments delivery of timely results that meet our clients’ objectives.

Acquisition Support

We work closely with software developers, IT managers and technology end-users to help our clients acquire software products to meet their operational needs. We help you select the right vendor, customize the product to improve your software-intensive capabilities, and follow through with its implementation to bring about measurable positive changes in your enterprise.

Project Management Office (PMO) Implementation

Creating a PMO is straightforward. Creating one that is effective, with people who work collaboratively with technology and business leaders, is not.  Our experts bring to the table the best practices and decades of experience in  managing projects for governmental and private organizations, in the US and abroad. Most importantly, they know how to integrate this new function into your current organization as a valued member of the larger team.

Quality Assurance

Effective Quality Assurance focuses on monitoring of the software development process and ensuring the quality of the end product throughout the lifecycle and in collaboration with entire project team.  This requires technical knowledge, quantitative analysis and excellent people skills in order to be done effectively and at an acceptable cost.  Our consultants can provide service or help you build an internal capability that works.

Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)

Whether you are responsible for the development or need an independent assessment of your supplier, our team has the expertise to review and evaluate your IT project performance.  We approach reviews in order to build a collaborative view of the current situation as a foundation for improving performance going forward.

Technology Assessment, Alignment and Implementation

[REPEATED FROM PAGE 2 – CONFIRM THAT IT IS WANTED ON BOTH PAGES] Automaton is a critical component of process improvement.  It makes complex tasks achievable, manages data efficiently and improves communications.  As the number of technology providers continues to grow, new tools are becoming available with increased frequency.  Our years of technology assessment and implementation experience help you select the right tool from the right vendor, taking into consideration the need for rapid deployment, ease of use, security, reliability and vendor maturity.