Project Management Consultancy Atern Agile RAD UK Project Managers UK

Practical and results focused Project Management and Methods enabling our clients to get the best from their projects, systems and people.

Over 35+ years of delivering externally critiqued project management and software engineering lifecycle services
Service guarantee of quality staff and skills, ensures our customers get the right people, when they need them
Business delivery, focusing on ensuring continual business justification is validated and the right projects sustained
Committed to skills and knowledge transfer
PRINCE2^® and DSDM^® Atern and Scrum certified Project Managers
UK and pan-European service
The OCS Project Management Framework, an OCS developed approach to Work Package IT Project Management with a quarter of a century of software work package credentials.

OCS has been providing Project Management Consultancy since 1984. The following is a sample:

Introduced revised project governance methods to support IT department through major business change programme
Team Managers for the provisioning of a variety of work packages involving online platform, payments and reconciliation, maturities and policy valuations, legacy systems migration and upgrades.

Introduction of PRINCE2^® project management and Agile software development methodologies into the engineering department
Introduction of PRINCE2^® project management methodology into the UK professional services team
Provision of multiple project managers and work package team managers over a two year transition programme.

Provision of project and team managers for a strategic Retail Business platform programme
Provision of project manager for a revised Sales & Marketing platform that covered 13 European countries and 3 business units.

Project Manager and Team Managers for the provisioning of an Intranet platform within the UK retail estate
Provision of work package team managers and quality assurers for local and corporate communications enablement, including manpower planning
Provision of an interim Programme Manager for business change programme focusing on logistical workflow, particularly in relation to goods and stock management.

Provided the knowledge and experience to facilitate the introduction of Rapid Application Development techniques into software engineering teams
Introduced new work package governance methods to support RAD
Developed and delivered customer specific training courses and coaching for project and team managers
Provided technical and business representatives to facilitate client uptake of new methods.

Provided Project Manager for Customer Engagement programme, which included establishing business case, project governance and controls
Work packages for purchase and implementation of preferred CRM package as well as the development of customised modules for the selected CRM package were undertaken by OCS Team Managers using OCS' software engineering project teams.

Project Management and work package management for delivering an internet based Financial Reporting application
Work packages adopted an Agile approach within the PRINCE2^® project structure
Use of prototype delivered via outsourced OCS project teams deployed.

Undertook a project audit to assist the client in indentifying how to resolve a number of major issues related to a critical project
Substituted project manager, who subsequently created a new baseline for the project to proceed
Provided advice and guidance to senior customer managers sitting on the Project Board
Introduced and established new procedures for project tracking, recording and change management.

Provided Project Management to support programme delivering new online business environment
Managed a suite of mixed work package teams constituting internal, existing and new external suppliers that had high aggressive deadline schedules
Implemented new project governance procedures specifically tailored for the online business environment.

Full lifecycle project management responsibility for providing a Fleet Optimisation and Planning platform to respond to regulatory changes in vehicle transactions
Provided work package team manager capacity for delivery and integration of a highly specialist package from a third party supplier and meeting aggressive timescales by utilising the benefits of RAD (DSDM^®).

Provision of a project manager to overseeing customer initiative to preserve value held in legacy platform, whilst organisation moved towards an online model
Exploited OCS technical skills to facilitate supplier representation necessary to bridge gaps
Multiple work packages in preparation for and outsourcing of legacy platform services, establishment of service interfaces (business and technical).

Undertook a wide range of Project Management activities over a seven year period

Improving customer management, which involved implementing a CRM platform
Increasing productivity, including the provision of an online performance system
Increasing distribution efficiency, including dealership network platform, incentives and rewards systems, integrated marketing capabilities etc.

Project Manager for a new Financial Planning and Reporting platform for the financial controllers across the department
Provision of work package team managers over a three year project involving proprietary and custom software engineering and infrastructure preparations
Provision of project governance training and skills development to customer employees
Support of project audit and programme lessons learnt reviews.

Provision of Project Management Consultancy to manage a twenty-five person team on a 200+ resource-year project undertaking the analysis, design, development and implementation of twelve core business applications.

Managed a number of parallel projects in the ISD department of their European Headquarters
Reviewed and subsequently produced new procedures and guidelines for the client's Project Managers
Provided hands-on coaching and skills transfer to the client's Project Managers in training
Designed and delivered a whole suite of training courses aimed at maximising the capabilities of the clients' employees.

For further information regarding OCS' Project Management services please email info@ocs-consulting.com or call 020 8731 4335.