USDM

Solid Project Management is critical to running successful projects or large scale programs. Precise execution is imperative to cost containment, sustainability, growth and profitability. USDM’s project management experts are the perfect fit to help guide, lead and support your mission-critical programs and project initiatives across highly regulated areas, where compliance, technology and business intersect, to attain desired business results.

Our Project Management Maturity Model is based upon the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI). This patented model ensures success through the deployment of industry best practices based on defined processes which are standardized, quantified and optimized to ensure consistent, repeatable results rather than individual heroics.

The Standish Group, a recognized project management research firm, studied over 9,000 projects and reported that only 28% were deemed a success. The rest had significant cost or schedule over-runs, failed to deliver expected benefits or were cancelled completely.  The consequences of failed projects can be grim. With so much at stake, early detection and action is key to avoiding the substantial losses associated with troubled projects.

• 100’s of successful projects
• A project on-time, on-budget delivery rate 35% higher than industry average
• Use of USDM’s proven project management methodology
• Use of our extensive “lessons learned” and project close-out review repository
• Access to peer and management reviews of all projects
• Personalized knowledge transfer from experienced resources to your project personnel

The following are key services which your USDM team provides in the life Sciences industry:

Solution Offering

• Dedicated program management office (PMO) – full time resources to manage your portfolio of projects
• Dedicated project management -  full time on-site resources to manage your large projects or groups of smaller projects
• Scalable project management – part time on-site resources to manage projects that don’t require a full time engagement
• Remote project management – USDM team working from our offices to deliver projects of any size, virtual or global project teams.

Project Management Team

• Extensive PM experience overseeing a variety of projects over multiple applications, business  areas/functions and domains. Our PMs have worked as practitioners and are well versed in the application of project management, system development lifecycle and systems methodologies.
• USDM tools and methodologies are available for use on all projects. This includes detailed processes for status reporting, management dashboards with visibility to key business metrics, risk management, change management and project review/recovery.
• USDM “lessons learned” and project close out review repository. This represents a wealth of data representing our successes and challenges from hundreds of projects which we have managed over the past 12 years.

Business Value

• Improved success on projects with project control, tracking, monitoring and early-warning indicators.
• Business value driven PM to ensure that all project decisions link to business objectives you want to achieve. Change control governance and filters established to ensure scope changes meet project criticality.
• Reduced risk and cost through effective risk management, project reviews and management dashboards with real-time visibility to key business metrics.
• Bringing business and technical resources together to enhance your performance on delivery of  projects that can be easily put into operation within your operation.
• Performance Improvement: Institutionalizing Lessons Learned – As a project concludes, valuable lessons learned are not always captured and rarely acted upon. Longer term, these lessons learned could have significant impact of the successful outcomes of future projects. USDM helps you establish and maintain the processes for capturing, evaluating and institutionalizing lessons learned that will improve performance across all projects.

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