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Delivery Assurance Services Planmetrix has conducted extensive research to identify the sources of project failures. The root causes for these failures almost always come down to; inadequate planning, poor scope control, late corrective actions, or insufficient involvement of key stakeholders.

At Planmetrix, we have developed, and sharpened over the course of many projects, specific Delivery Assurance Services to manage the root causes of failure. Employing these Services gives our clients the benefit of an objective third party involvement at critical times in the projects life cycle. The scope of this work falls in the following areas:

Initiation Planning and Key Document Development Services

Strategy Consulting and Business Case Development. Our senior consultants help identify goals, develop end-to-end strategic plans, diagnose processes, and assess priorities. We prepare an analysis of options, costs, benefits, risks, implementation issues, and recommendations.

Key Project Documentation Requirements. Project documentation requirements vary with project complexity and risk. We help pinpoint the documentation requirements to minimize project overhead while mitigating significant sources of project risk.

Requirement Specifications and High-Level Architecture. We develop clear, complete, locked-in scope and interface specifications. We identify hardware standards, capacity planning, integration, data integrity and security standards to help assure a common architectural vision across the enterprise.

RFI/RFP Preparation and Vendor Evaluation. We develop these documents to set the stage for contract negotiation, governance, performance accountability, and risk management. We view these as strategic documents to reduce contract ambiguity and improve product delivery.

Vendor Quality Assurance and Risk Management Services

Vendor Quality Assurances. We do not have allegiances with vendors. Yet, we know them well - their philosophies, products, strengths, and weaknesses. This enables us to predict vendor problems and suggest early corrective actions for our clients.

Organization Readiness Assessments. We evaluate the readiness of end users to accept and use the project deliverables. These evaluations assist the end user manage change and assist the project manager detect implementation problems early enough to take corrective actions.

Benefits Verification. At planned intervals during the project, and at project close out, our Benefits Verification Assessment validates the benefits that justified the project or provides recommended actions to improve the project benefits.

Risk Management. An on-going analysis of the effectiveness of the project in controlling risk. Includes evaluate the proper control structures, governance processes and planning efforts associated the successful delivery of your technology project.