What Sets Us Apart
At tactHive while providing Project Management services and assisting your team in dealing with project complex issues, our experts constantly consider the following principles to achieve better results and avoid many future problems. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Systematic Thinking and Integrated Solutions
Project integration is always one of the major concerns in delivering mega projects. All those who have been involved even for a short time in any major projects, will have experienced this. The bigger the project, the more critical and difficult this issue becomes. Integrated solutions will save money and time in long term, increase the efficiency of the team and quality of products, accuracy and consistency of reports and decrease the risks and errors. To achieve integration in our projects, application of Systematic Thinking in all areas is essential but in summary we may refer to:
- Contractual obligations (consistency and integration among different sections and components of your subcontract or proposals).
- Project management and control components
- Integration between different design disciplines
- Integration to other projects
- Construction solutions
- The directions of multiple stakeholders
- Interface management
- Integrated project digital delivery solutions
- Integrated quality management solutions
Problem Solving
We are an independent, third-party observer that brings a holistic and fresh view to your projects and helps your team to mitigate risks and solve problems. Our team will work collaboratively with yours to identify issues, evaluate and prioritize them, and finally resolve problems or mitigate the risks by implementation of solutions that are aligned with your strategic plans and business goals. Asking the critical questions that might not be easy to answer, we will help you find the root causes and solve the complex problems fundamentally. We will bring a fresh perspective, share our knowledge and experiences and work alongside your team to improve your efficiency, quality and resolve the problems. You will not be alone in this journey.
Efficiency
Efficiency is a very old topic but becomes a critical one in major projects. We are working in an environment where many of our colleagues have the required proficiency and skills needed to perform their work. However, once the scale of teams increases, those people who have different technical and cultural backgrounds, or based in different organizations, may not follow the same procedures, or may have different interpretations of one subject.
Therefore, one of the main responsibilities of management teams in such an environment is to create systems, utilize appropriate tools and techniques, define work or information flows, and identify authority levels that creates efficient and smooth collaboration, achieves consistent quality, and decreases risk of human error and personal interpretations.
On the other hand, the level of detail and the selected solutions (software, checklist, approvals, etc.) should be aligned with the size and complexity of the project, to minimize the required efforts for administrative activities and increase the efficiency. When the scale of projects and number of stakeholders increases, compounded with a team that is globally distributed can make finding those integrated solutions more difficult. Here at tactHive, we have lived these challenges before and can advise on methods that will provide a positive work environment for the project team.
We can help you to review, evaluate your current systems, procedures, workflows, and plans to improve them. We are here to help whether you are starting a new project from scratch or are in any stage of an existing project and need to regain efficiency.
Business Oriented Project Management Office(PMO)
Are you a growing design or construction company that is interested in creating a Project Management Office? Or you are thinking about excelling your PMO and add more value to your organization or projects. Or maybe you want to improve your existing PMO to be more aligned with your new business objectives and strategic plans.
We can help you evaluate the current state, from no PMO at all stage in a small to medium size company to improve an existing PMO in a mature corporate, backlog your concerns and future objectives, review the available data, work with your management and project teams to prioritize them, and finally plan how to achieve them and help you to implement the required changes in your organization.
Strategic Thinking by All
In most traditional organizations, strategic planning starts from top and flows to lower levels of the organization. In today’s fast paced world, the dynamic has changed dramatically. Today it’s all about quick decision making based on accurate information gathered from the market which in many cases might be collected by the project team.
Strategic decisions and plans shouldn’t be made or created behind closed doors and only by corporate executives anymore. More involvement of the projects personnel who are working in the front line is required to create agile and flexible strategies and address the market needs or discover the new opportunities and identify potential threats. This is not a new concept but if you feel the urgency of a change, we can help you in facilitation of the required brainstorming sessions or creation of data collection tools to empower your decisions.
Risk Management
How many proposals have you submitted considering a percentage of your overall budget as your contingency? In how many of our projects we have performed a realistic qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and calculated our contingencies accordingly? In how many projects the Risk log is just a kind of formal record of managers concerns? Have we ever integrated our risk analysis with our project budget or schedule to see the impacts on critical path? How often do we review, update and follow up with the assigned people to implement the identified action plans? How much the outcomes of the risk analysis affect our plans, negotiations, or proposals? Are we eager to identify risks, prevent, mitigate, or accept and consider a budget and time for them or this is just a formality?
We will help you in your risk management in most areas except economic, investment, construction methodologies, and legal risk analysis for major projects.
Project Management Methodology Selection: Waterfall, Agile or Hybrid?
The governmental agencies and project owners have started to use more progressive contractual models such as Alliance to achieve the common goals, distribute the risk and help the project teams to overcome the obstacles. The issue is until yesterday we all were practicing competitive approaches and believed in risk transferring. Suddenly, our contractual model has changed and now we are supposed to collaborate, be flexible and still maintain our profits. Our organizational culture has not coped and our project management methodology has not adopted with this major shift to address its fast paced, iterative and flexible scope. None of waterfall, nor agile or practiced hybrid models in other industries can address the needs of some of today’s infrastructure projects.
It is time to think together, use the lessons learned and create new methodologies, techniques and tools that are responding to today’s needs.
