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Outsourcing effective IT project management

Delivering your IT project on time, on brief and on budget

Looking after an IT network is a never-ending task – as any IT manager will appreciate. It seems that you only just finish one upgrade or new installation as the next one becomes due to start. Commissioning and implementing changes to the IT infrastructure is a stressful and time-consuming activity.

Recent research has shown that very few IT projects get completed on time, on brief and on budget. It is far too often the case that ‘scope creep’ on the project moves the goal posts to the detriment of all concerned.

The inescapable fact is that IT management for all but the simplest projects needs a dedicated resource to ensure effective delivery. Even in businesses with a dedicated IT manager this sort of incremental full-time resource is seldom available. That is why more and more IT managers are outsourcing specific IT project management to experts like ramsac.

A menu driven approach to IT Project outsourcing

Any significant IT project can be broken down into a time-phased sequence of tasks and ramsac provides a service that can be used on a menu or ‘soup to nuts’ basis:

  • Discovery and scope
  • Supplier sourcing and appointment
  • Project planning
  • Project delivery
  • Ongoing project value analysis

Effective project management starts with initial ‘discovery’ and a thorough appraisal of the overall requirement followed by a detailed project scoping process to determine the exact vision of what success will look like. This outputs a detailed brief as a basis for supplier tenders and budget framing.

Once the requirement has been agreed and the scope of the project established, ramsac can work with you to brief your preferred suppliers, or identify other suitable candidates. Alternatively we are happy to own the entire supplier recruitment process.

The benefit of working with independent experts like ramsac becomes very apparent at the planning stage – our experience across a breadth and depth of projects means we know exactly of what expectations to set for both suppliers and clients. In fact, suppliers like working with us for exactly that reason.

This scoping process then leads to a project plan with agreed time lines, deliverables, budgets and payment structures. Once the project is kicked-off ramsac can act as your expert ‘point of contact’ leading all required responses from your organisation to ensure timeliness in all aspects of project delivery. We will also keep a close eye on ‘scope creep’.

Throughout the life of the project, and even past final implementation and ‘go live’, ramsac will monitor all aspects of deliverables and delivery to ensure you receive the value that was agreed when the contract was signed. We are happy in th longer-term to monitor any aspects of training and maintenance.

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