Objective oversight from knowledgeable partners means fewer issues and quicker resolution to those that arise.
Why Independent Verification and Validation Matters for Technology and Data Projects
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Our meticulous attention to project delivery leaves no detail to chance and connects each of them to what people need to reach great outcomes.
Project Deliverables
Project Strategy
When we’re engaged from project kickoff, we delve into a deep discovery phase to help you identify key metrics and milestones, determine workstreams and accountability, and ensure viability. We collaborate with you to mitigate risk and to create a unified vision that supports success within a complex environment.
Communication Plan
A comprehensive communication plan includes stakeholders from every level of the organization, including end users and vendors. Your plan might include tactical meetings and consolidated status reporting at the project workstream level, which roll up to a leadership update and an executive scorecard. Town hall meetings keep your team up to date on important project happenings and ensure the project management and staff-level resources are aligned on objectives.
Scope Management
Careful scope management keeps details from escaping and costs from ballooning through meticulous planning and monitoring. We work with you to define a thorough statement of scope driven by project requirements and a thorough understanding of end-user needs defined through focus groups, interviews, and other activities. A dedicated scope management workstream addresses document tracking and project changes to avoid scope creep, through testing documentation and a final audit.
Change Management
An organizational change management program addresses the human side of technology changes to ensure the best return on your investment, working alongside our data, technology, and project delivery specialists to minimize disruption and create lasting, positive transformation. We work through reliable processes to help you prepare for, manage, and reinforce change.
Issue Management
The issues themselves are unpredictable, but having a clear methodology for addressing them reduces impact. Project issues identified and raised through workstream leads are tracked, prioritized, and mitigated in weekly management work sessions. We help you establish an escalation process for issues that require leadership or vendor support for additional resolution.
Testing Management
In addition to thorough analysis of current defects, we employ a rigorous process to improve testing management, report defects, and determine resolution steps. To give stakeholders a clear and thorough understanding of the current state, history, and status of defects, we develop dashboards based on reporting priorities. You get important data about processes that hinder your outcomes, and we provide recommendations for resolution.
Documentation Management
We design your documentation management approach to keep your project progressing efficiently and serve your agency most effectively after transition to the internal team. All documents are housed in a central location according to top-level phase and categorized by when they’ll be used. We work to ensure your team has an easy-to-use reference library that’s consistent and comprehensive.
Project Recovery Services
Your projects go further with these and other services.
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Organizational Change Management
Ever completed an upgrade nobody wanted to use? A well-considered plan paired with effective strategies to build trust, create alignment, and address conflicts ensures projects find success and are embraced.
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Process Mapping
Outdated processes, duplicative efforts, and underutilized technology hold back progress while frustrating teams and customers. Process mapping gives you the insight you need into how your systems and people interact now—and how they could function better.
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Solution Implementation
Too many of the best-laid technology and data plans fall apart at the implementation stage. True digital transformation is achieved by careful implementation that integrates a solution into your organization so it’s embraced by your teams.
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Leadership Alignment
Without buy-in at every level, projects fail. We help align leadership behind the value of your data or technology project so that it starts off right and work with you to maintain alignment even when obstacles arise.
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Data Governance
Data holds no value until it’s consistent and accurate. Find the strategies that let you safely share and utilize data to support your organization’s goals, break down silos, and solve problems.
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Technology Strategy and Planning
Technology that doesn’t align with your organization’s goals and with how your teams work inhibits progress and leaves you open to risk. Find your just-right solution—and a prioritized roadmap for achieving it—with a team that delves deeply into your organization to support your strategy.
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