PROJECT MANAGEMENT (predominantly IT focussed projects)
Project Rescues and Recoveries
- The project is out of control
- Too much has been spent and not sure what direction to go?
- Assessment to see what is outstanding and what really needs to be done
- Address scope with sponsor and board
- Focus is on implementing 6 weekly or quarterly for larger project deliverables
Portfolio Management
- Manage and structure several programmes with a 2 to 5 year view
- The focus is to initiate the portfolio with the business case and then take it through the phases of Concept, Pilot, Deployment, Extension, Maturity and Decommission. Sometimes this includes Re-Inventing the Portfolio offering (example over the counter banking to internet banking to mobile banking to mobile point of sale and mobile wallet)
Programme Management
- Manage and structure several projects with a 1 to 2 year view
- The focus here is on business readiness
Project Management
- Manage a project generally with a 1 year focus
- The focus is on delivery
SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE
Test Management
- Determine acceptable quality standards and levels
- Testing approach – Waterfall, Agile, COTS
- Scope of testing
- Functional testing – manual and/or automation
- Performance
Functional Testing
- Development of Test Cases by extracting Business Requirements from all project documentation (RFP, Functional Specifications, Technical/Application Specifications, Change Requests)
- Execution of Test Cases
- Regression
Functional Automation Testing
- Development of successfully executed Functional Tests into repeatable automated test packs, which can also be used for Regression Test Packs
Performance Testing
- Load and/or stress testing checking for capacity and scalability
Defect Management
- Defect identification
Deployment Management
- Planned deployments for rollouts or packaging
PRODUCTION STABILISATION
Change and Release Management
- Change and Release Management Process
- Daily/Emergency changes
- Weekly Changes
- Monthly and Annual cycles
- Freeze Periods
Production Stabilisation
- Help Desk set up/configuration
- Service Catalogue
- Incident Management
- Problem Management where appropriate