Project & Program Management

Project & Program Management

Significance project management professionals apply our proven practices to meet customers’ project and program management objectives in accordance with Project Management Institute/Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI/PMBOK), International Standards Organization (ISO) and Federal guidelines. Our cadre of certified experts ensure our customers’ investments in our services are optimized for success. Significance PMP-certified managers implement enterprise-wide governance processes within our support services which include integrating cost, scope, schedule, quality, and performance management across a cohesive spectrum of lifecycle tasks and activities. Significance PMs provide performance-based metrics reporting to promote full transparency to maximize value to our customers.

Project & Program Management Approach

Significance delivers value fast, an Agile-based tenant, through our application of a wide range of innovative project management frameworks, tools, techniques, and capabilities. We empower our PMs to nurture the flexibility to adapt to dynamic client needs, while maintaining rigor in our repeatable and sustainable processes and practices. Significance tailors our project management approach to meet our customers objectives, leveraging a host of methodologies to include Agile, Lean Six Sigma, DevOps, and Waterfall disciplines. Our robust project and program management service offering includes:

  • Agile Project/Program Management with Incremental Time-Boxed Product Delivery
  • Traditional Waterfall-based Management (e.g., IAW regulatory compliance)
  • Automated Schedule, Task, and Milestone Tracking
  • Performance-based Metrics & Graphical Information Radiator Development
  • Integrated Automated & Manual Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC)
  • Project Management Tools Utilization (e.g., MS Project, Jira, MS Planner, and Visio)
  • Requirements Gathering, Automation, Prioritization, and Execution
  • Enterprise Risk Management
  • Adaptive Cost, Procurement, Schedule, Scope, and Performance Reporting
  • Governance Artifact Development, Delivery, and Maintenance
  • Strategic, Executive, and Tactical Communications
  • Stakeholder & Resource Management
  • Federal Acquisition Project/Program Management Support
  • Project & Product Integration Management (i.e., SAFe)

Our project and program management service offerings are unique within the industry. We remain tool, methodology, and framework agnostic, approaching each client engagement through a lens of singularity, with the capacity to apply “hybrid” project management philosophies. This unique capability enables Significance project managers to mix-and-match best practices to meet mission-critical client-prioritized requirements. This allows us to leverage a host of time-tested lessons learned captured throughout our vast experiences managing projects of varying size, scope, and complexity to deliver value – fast.

CAPABILITIES

PROJECT & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES:

Program Management Support

Our support for major programs ties the multiple, complex projects together into a comprehensive system providing visibility and decision-making capability to executive program leadership. We also ensure communication channels from leadership are transferring critical information throughout the program components and community.

  • Strategic Planning
  • Integrated Project Scheduling
  • Briefings, documents, and spreadsheets
  • Tailor and standardize management templates (e.g., Project Management Plan (PMP)) in support of project, program, and portfolio management
  • Best practices-driven guidance and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • Graphic information radiators (e.g., Gannt charts, timelines, organizational relationship charts, Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs), etc.)
  • Project Management Discipline (PMD) Training
  • Participation in and support of Integrated Product Teams (IPTs)
  • Budget drills and management reviews
  • Solutions to address audit remediation findings
  • Liaison assistance across stakeholder community

Project Management Office (PMO)

Our team of Project Management Professionals combine their expertise in project planning and scheduling with cost control and resource management. Our experience in a range of industries, projects, and DoD clients allows us to add value on day one.

  • Budget and Cost Analysis
  • Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) development, status reporting, and reviews
  • Work Breakdown Structure Development
  • Cost, Schedule, and Performance Management
  • Earned Value Management
  • Risk Management
  • Gannt Chart and Ad-hoc Report Development

Logistics Program Management 

Our team has decades of combined experience overseeing logistics-based programs in stateside and overseas installations as military personnel and consultants. This allows us to aid with planning, management, and implementation of materials, technology, and personnel resource organization with the highest-level expertise.

  • Lifecycle Logistics Support
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Material & Real Property Asset Management
  • Manpower & Personnel Management
  • Technical Data Stewardship
  • Training Delivery & Support

Acquisitions Program Management  

We support the entire acquisitions lifecycle, from initial review to expert implementation. We help our clients analyze options, make recommendations, and implement strategies across a wide spectrum of programs.

  • Acquisition Lifecycle Project & Program Management
  • Acquisition Plan Development & Strategy Support
  • Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) lifecycle support
  • Program Objective Memorandum (POM) lifecycle support
  • Standard Accounting, Budgeting, and Reporting System (SABRS) and SABRS Management Analysis Retrieval Tools System (SMARTS) transition to Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI)
  • Program Budget Information System (PBIS) to SABRS reconciliation throughout PPBE lifecycle
  • ADVANA financial data compilation evaluation and analysis
  • Full-cycle Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) support

Portfolio Management – Significance supports the implementation of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture, non-warfighting capability portfolios, to meet changing business and supported warfighter requirements. Our goal is to optimize capability investments in finance, human capital, technology, data, and assets across the enterprise and minimize risk in meeting DoD capability needs.  

  • Identify opportunities for savings, optimization, and standardization
  • Link business performance to budget
  • End-to-End (E2E) business process modeling and improvement and business investment governance
  • Digital Modernization
  • Integration Management
  • Risk Management
  • Cost Management
  • Scope Management
  • Schedule Management
  • Quality Management
  • Human Resources Management
  • Communications & Stakeholder Management
  • Procurement Management
  • Change Management
  • Audit Support, and Remediation

Expertise

Our team brings project and program management knowledge and skills, backed by industry-leading professional credentials.

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified
  • Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP-PMI) Certified
  • CompTIA Security+ CE Certified
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP) Certified
  • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certified
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Certified
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Certified