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Our Service To consistently deliver success in a growing business means having a reliable, repeatable method of selecting, setting up, implementing and handing over the projects that deliver new products and services to its customers. At some point the old, informal ways of doing things won’t work any more.
Whether the client already has a project life cycle that needs reviewing/refreshing, or is starting with the proverbial blank piece of paper, the project management specialists at Digital Works Consulting can provide an end-‐to-‐end project process audit and improvement service, highly tailored to what will bring most value to the individual business.
We do this by working hand-‐in-‐hand with our clients every step of the way, delivered via a proven systematic framework:
Our Typical Client Our Project Life Cycle service is for any business looking to improve the way it delivers new products and services. It is particularly effective in clients experiencing a period of growth.
We have seen specific success in ecommerce, payments, online gaming, telecommunications and internet service providers.
Previous Success Online ticket exchange Seatwave commissioned a DWC consultant to overhaul its delivery process. A full process audit, from a customer, technical and internal team perspective, identified immediate and longer-‐term structural improvements.
An excellent solution to
our needs. On time, cost-‐effective, with full buy-‐in.”
COO, Seatwave
PROJECT LIFE CYCLE
AUDIT DESIGN IMPLEMENT HANDOVER
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The Benefits • Focus: Allowing client
resources to concentrate on ongoing delivery, engaging as required but without undue distraction.
• Clarity: Clear roles and responsibilities from the exec level for decision-‐making through to project team members for delivery.
• Proven: Established real-‐world practices, honed over years of experience.
• Tailored: All improvements are robustly challenged to ensure that they deliver value for the client in question, not blindly delivered as an off-‐the-‐shelf solution.
• Repeatable: Equipping the client with the means to repeat its project successes and avoid unnecessary project failures.
• Great Value: Our expertise and flexible pricing provides great value and a mutually beneficial partnership.
Our Project Life Cycle service
1. Audit: Through a combination of interview, observation, sample project auditing and benchmarking, we ascertain the project maturity level of the organisation – covering project governance/strategy as well as project delivery – and provide tailored recommendations for improvement;
2. Design: Based on industry best practice and internal engagement we define a robust and repeatable project life cycle framework, with clear roles and responsibilities, to meet the needs of the particular client;
3. Implement: Taking the project life cycle off the whiteboard and into reality: we support the client in communicating the results to all users and stakeholders, and provide training, tools, techniques and templates that deliver results quickly;
4. Handover: Effectively embedding the improved practices into the organisation, we identify and coach the user champions who will take ownership going forward, and propose a method of evolving the project life cycle into the future.
This framework is flexibly structured to allow clients to select the breadth and depth of the stages to meet their needs and budget.
Indicative Timescales and Pricing We provide the service on a flexible ‘time and materials’ basis or a per-‐project cost. If a per-‐project route is chosen, these are typical prices for a mid-‐sized digital business: Service Stage Time Period Prices *
1. Audit 2-‐3 weeks £9,500
2. Design 4 weeks £15,000
3. Implement 5-‐6 weeks £20,000
4. Handover 2 weeks £7,500
*These are indicative timelines and prices, and may alter based upon client specific requirements. All prices are exclusive of UK VAT and expenses.
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Contact us If you are interested in finding out more about this service, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact: Rob Townsend Director, Project Management
+44 7800 877932
We are Digital Works Consulting The Project Life Cycle service is delivered by the ‘project management’ practice of Digital Works Consulting.
We specialise in business consultancy and interim solutions for two main types of client: (1) high growth digital businesses needing to mature, resource, fund and accelerate; and (2) mature companies looking to adapt to digital change and requiring business and IT transformation. We help companies big and small, UK based or international, to successful digital business.
Working with clients in sectors such as payments, telecoms, e-‐commerce, entertainment, gaming, marketing services, technology and data solutions. Offering strategy, project delivery, product management, build, acceleration and monetisation expertise.
Delivered from a team of experienced digital veterans, who’ve been there and done that, on a consulting or interim basis. And we do this by building long-‐term partnerships with our clients. Getting to know them inside out, understanding how they operate, and always being there when they need us. That’s what we’re really all about. Enabling your success. In digital.
Digital Works Consulting is part of Digital Works Group.
SIMON CLARK
ANDREW ‘SID’ SALMON
ROB TOWNSEND
RICHARD MORECROFT
STRATIS SCLEPARIS
SOPHIE FRASER
ANESTIS KARAVAGGELIS
CHRIS SIMMONS