Cierto provides a number of IT Project anagement and Consulting Services, all of which are described below. You can use the links in the Services column to quickly navigate to individual descriptions.

Cierto provides IT Project Management and Consulting Services. This includes end-to-end project delivery from requirements capture through to transition into service or any particular phases of a project such as requirements capture, design, development, testing and transition with projects ranging from 3 months to 3 years.

Key to our success in this area is "keeping it simple" and the ability to construct a solid project foundation enabling business benefits to be successfully delivered.

All project documents are tracked back through a simple compliancy matrix to the contractual agreement to provide complete traceability.

Project documents contain only relevant information; they aren’t produced for the sake of it.

Key areas of expertise include:

• Project Management;
• Consultancy call-off;
• Management Reporting;
• Change Management;
• Mentoring and Succession Training;
• Risk Management;
• Financial Management;
• Project Planning;
• Stakeholder Management;
• Business and IT Implementation;
• Quality Management.

You may enquire about or request any Project Management or Consultancy Services via the Cierto Contact Form.

Cierto is pleased to provide IT Project Management and Consulting Services on a call off basis. This can be anything from a single day to a month. Cierto will provide straightforward but sustainable solutions to address any project management problems.

Services include:

• Recovery for a Failing Project;
• Meeting a Challenging Deadline;
• Starting a Project on the Right Tracks;
• Producing a Plan or Project Initiation Document;
• Filling in for absent staff;
• Preparing for a successful Project Audit.

You may enquire about or request any Project Management or Consultancy Services via the Cierto Contact Form.

• Simple tools to transfer detailed project management documents into concise management reports:
• Complex plans;
• Detailed spreadsheets;
• Risk reports.
• Knowing when and how to escalate;
• Tracking actions.

• Identifying the true cost and value of a change.
• Protecting your margin.
• Setting client expectations.
• Agreeing simple change control mechanisms to support projects in progress without causing delay.
• Achieving consistency of approach with wider project governance requirements.

Mentoring and Succession Training is available to a group of your staff across the broad range of project management disciplines described above to meet your specific business needs.

The purpose of this service is to provide a skills transfer and help increase your staff’s productivity.

You may enquire about or request any Project Management or Consultancy Services via the Cierto Contact Form.

• Identifying risks and issues.
• Determining mitigating actions.
• Calculating full contingency costs.
• Performing a cost based risk assessment based on severity, impact and mitigation.
• Assigning the correct owners.
• Knowing when and how to escalate risks and issues.

• Determining the current project costs at all points throughout the project.
• Forecasting the full project costs at all points throughout the project.
• Earned value analysis.
• Calculating and forecasting margin.
• Incorporating change requests into the financial model.
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• Producing simple financial tools and reports for senior management

• Producing work breakdown structures.
• Identifying tasks dependencies.
• Determining resource requirements for the duration of the project.
• Reviewing the critical path.
• Minimising project timelines.
• Producing concise views of detailed plans for senior non-technical managers.
• Identifying then managing risks, issues and assumptions.
• Aligning project deliverables to complex contracts whilst maintaining a holistic approach to project planning.

• Identifying key stakeholders.
• Knowing how to spot key influencers.
• Gaining stakeholder support and participation.
• Agreeing and tracking stakeholders obligations.

• Incident free roll-out.
• Minimal impact on business as usual activities.
• Supporting business change and new legislation requirements through IT.
• Planning and managing requirements capture.
• Supporting training needs analysis.
• Development and training roll-out.
• Business wide and external communications.
• Health and safety.
• Diversity and equality.
• Human resources.

• Extensive knowledge and experience of bespoke quality systems:
• BT Expert.
• DWP Change Lifecycle.
• CSA Project Management.
• EDS STaT-Ri.
• Identifying the project governance for successful internal and external formal auditing.
• Producing reusable project procedures.
• Requirements to solution traceability.
• Test records.
• Electronic filing systems.
• Less paperwork.