PROGRAM INTEGRATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES (SIN 874-7)

Quality Plus Engineering (Q+E) has a history of successfully completing projects on schedule and on budget while meeting multiple stakeholder expectations.  Q+E standard project management methodologies include Project Management Institute’s Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) or industry specific methodologies.  High quality program integration and project management services are key to the success of all projects and services provided to our clients. Q+E has demonstrated ability in all facets of successfully managing and integrating large programs and projects including project planning, execution, staffing, and budget oversight and control from billion to million dollar projects. Q+E offers the following program/project advisory and management services:

• Program/Project Management.  Q+E uses the appropriate methodologies and standards to manage projects that meet stakeholder objectives, including SEI CMM, PMI PMBOK, IEEE, and ISO project standards.   Also, Q+E has used DOE, FAA, DOD, and NASA program and project management standards.  Q+E engineers and professionals also use Microsoft Project, Primavera and other project software solutions.
  Many Q+E team members have more than 20 years experience in completing within scope, budget, and timeframe projects from multiple billion dollar to million dollar projects involving nvolving A/E design, construction management, and contract management oversight
• Business Process Management.  Q+E conducts successful organizational development, organizational behavior, structural process deployment, OMB A76, process mapping, risk process mapping, risk/control and other types of restructuring.  IT architecture and records development for intelligent decision-making were also part of many of these initiatives.
• Work Management.  Q+E has developed trademarked and even patent pending methodologies for improving work, effectively managing organizations, and improving overall agency/department governance.  Q+E has a patent pending on a Value Added Auditing^® methodology.  As well, Q+E trademarked and has developed products around the 7P work methodology – Paradigms – People – Principles – Practices – Products – Processes - Projects^®.  This work methodology has been successfully used for strategy development, policy implementation, and organizational development.
• Management planning.  QPE projectizes all engagements using a methodology involving scope planning, scope definition, activity sequencing, activity duration estimating, and cost estimating/budgeting.  Q+E develops a tailored management plan, financials and controls that are required by the client.  Changes in the plan and project scope are also managed through scope planning definition, verification and change control.
• Cost/budget management.  Q+E uses project costing to estimate and control projects.  First a work breakdown structure is completed.  Resource requirements resource rates, and duration estimates are completed.  A first pass cost budget is then completed.  This is discussed and refined with client input.  A final control budget is developed with cost baselines for the project.  Performance reports, change orders, and variance reports are developed from the cost baselines.  The client and critical stakeholders are kept informed of costs.  If cost variances appear, the client and stakeholder are notified of changes and updated on corrective/preventive actions. Q+E uses Microsoft Project and/or Primavera P3 as preferred project management tools.
• Human resource management.  Q+E develops staffing requirements and management plan for each engagement and project.  Roles, responsibilities, activities, and understanding are first negotiated with sponsor and client.  Then these are used in selecting, developing and managing the project team.  Q+E works with the client to weekly, monthly and quarterly to measure team and project performance.  Q+E believes in providing value and on being rewarded based on performance.  If ever there are differences in expectations, then these are immediately root-cause corrected and prevented from recurring.
• Quality management.  Q+E ensures that all project activities are quality planned and controlled.  Q+E uses three levels of quality controls involving quality control, quality assurance, and quality management.  Quality control may involve inspection, control charts, Pareto diagramming statistical sampling, flowcharting, and trend analysis.  Quality Assurance may involve process, product, and system audits.  Quality management includes cost/benefit analysis, benchmarking, flowcharting, and design of experiments.
• Subcontractor management.  Q+E works with prequalified subcontractors to provide integrated solutions with Federal clients from solicitation response, planning, and implementation, through project closeout.  Q+E and subcontractors are a fully integrated team using standard forms, seamless project software, and common tools/techniques.  Q+E engineers and professionals can also serve as the contract administrator throughout the project lifecycle.  Contract change control systems, performance reporting, software, and a common payment system are in place.
• ISO 9000 implementation.  ISO 9000 is a critical tool and methodology of program and project management and development.  Q+E has been involved with ISO 9000 since its introduction in North America in 1987, as a member of the Technical Advisory Group 176.  Q+E has trained more than a thousand people in ISO 9000, quality auditing, process auditing, flowcharting, and other tools.