Project Management
MustardSeed is your partner in project management. We specialize in partial and complete project and program management outsourcing. Whether you are looking to fulfill part, most, or even all your project management capabilities, MustardSeed offers high-quality project management services to meet your current and future needs.
We understand that the needs of a small medical device company will not be the same as those of a multinational Pharmaceutical company, which is why we do not provide a one-size-fits-all model for project management services. Instead, we tailor our services at MustardSeed to meet the specific needs of each client. Our thoughtful, personalized approach to integrated project management enables us to identify areas for growth, improvement, and increased efficiency that might otherwise be overlooked.
Some recent projects we’ve worked on:
Overseeing a global technology transfer
Establishing a fully integrated Phase II clinical trial schedule
Revamping a client’s supply chain and invoicing procedures
Breaking down communication silos in a matrixed team environment
Providing short-term staff augmentation to a company that recently lost its project manager
Advising a company transitioning from traditional waterfall to agile project management
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Program & Portfolio Management
MustardSeed is your partner in program and portfolio management. For companies looking for support in managing more than one project, MustardSeed offers comprehensive program and portfolio management services. Program and portfolio management are great options for companies who already have a solid project management practice in place and are looking for ways to increase uniformity, comparability, and transparency across projects, but who may not yet be ready for the institutional change of implementing a project management office (PMO).
Program management allows companies to manage a group of similar projects together rather than on a project-by-project basis, thereby offering consistency and comparability across projects. Typically, each project retains its own project manager to manage the day-to-day work of the project. Rather than managing the projects themselves, a program manager instead provides oversight across all projects within the program, monitoring project outcomes, sharing best practices across projects, and identifying risks and areas of improvement to better support the achievement of program outcomes.
Portfolio management takes things one step further, providing centralized management across multiple programs. One portfolio manager might oversee several program managers, who in turn oversee numerous project managers. Both program and portfolio management focus beyond the immediate goals of an individual project; instead, their goal is to align work with strategic business goals to ensure project management practices reflect higher-order business needs.
Some program and portfolios services we recently supported:
Leading business process improvement activities to ensure a consistent approach to equipment or assay qualification and validation
Building executive dashboards showcasing project health across a full portfolio of projects
Managing resources across projects, highlighting areas where teams or individual staff are at or over capacity
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Enterprise PMO Services
MustardSeed is your PMO partner. A project management office (PMO) or enterprise project management office (EPMO) sets and maintains expectations for how projects should be managed. The goal of the PMO is to deliver value and meet strategic business objectives through the discipline of project management. The PMO is a hallmark of high-performing companies.
Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to enhance the delivery potential of your existing PMO, MustardSeed can support you in crafting a PMO that meets the needs of your organizational culture, project requirements, and business objectives. We understand that there is no one-size-fits-all model for PMOs. MustardSeed will help you assess the type of PMO best-suited to meet your needs, the tools and processes needed to enable the success of your projects and teams, and work with you to build out a successful PMO.
For companies looking to outsource the development and day-to-day management of their PMO, MustardSeed offers PMO-as-a-Service (PMOaaS), wherein our staff are embedded into your organization to stand up and manage your PMO on an ongoing basis. We have successfully stood up PMOs in as little as 90 days.
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Strategic Project Management Consulting and Advising
MustardSeed employs a bench of senior advisors with decades of project management experience. If you are looking for more personalized executive coaching or advising on what direction to take your company’s project management growth, we can help.
Some areas where we offer strategic project management consulting and advising:
Project management personnel planning
Organizational design and change management
Transitioning from waterfall to agile or hybrid project management
Business process analysis
Facilitated project management visioning workshops
PMO structure and governance
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