Project Management

East America Corporation provides Project Management consulting services to support your organization in many different ways. Our certified Project Managers design, analyze, implement, and test project plans and all other phases of the software development life cycle. EAC helps clients address these issues by extending traditional approaches through the application of deep experience with services and solutions, focused in the following key areas:

Portfolio Management

EAC's Project Portfolio Management services help establish the proper mix of projects for initiation and execution, which may include guiding the organization through the difficult process of strategic project realignment, selecting which projects to accelerate, defer, or eliminate, and how to most effectively realign critical and costly project resources. EAC'S PPM vendor strategy and implementation services will help the organization implement the process and tools to achieve project visibility and to continuously monitor the project portfolio.

Program Management Office (PMO)

EAC'S PMO services help ensure that the organization have the most effective PMO governance model, to drive the project’s success and achieve best business results. Whether the organization’s are looking to jumpstart the development of a PMO, optimize an existing PMO, consolidate multiple PMOs resulting from M&A or other organizational changes, or outsource the operation of a PMO, EAC provides the framework and leadership to help the organization to navigate this complex process. PMO Jumpstart is just one capability to accelerate activity in this area.

Project Management

EAC'S Project Management services focus on project effectiveness and efficiency. Our project management oversight capabilities provide a trusted, independent, and objective advisor to monitor project progress, and recommend best practices and ongoing governance to ensure project success. Our Project Maturity Modeling and Project Failure Point Analysis capability, including Quick Start and Quick Scan, provide a framework to quickly assess and improve project management competency and rapidly realize cost savings and efficiency gains. This is achieved through:

• Team Control Dynamics: This process allows our project manager (and onsite consultants) to clearly define project roles and responsibilities, take ownership of critical pieces of the project management process, and take accountability for their own area of expertise. Our Project Managers also understand the culture of a successful project. They are adept at bringing control to the initiative by assimilating quickly to our client environments and controlling team member dynamics. We welcome your team's participation in this process.
• Phased Reviews: After each phase of the project, Our Project Managers and along with client’s staff take one day from the schedule for a Project Phase Review. The review process offers insight into what went during the previous phase, and what can be improved moving forward. This process is part of the Monitoring Process in the next section.
• Daily Monitoring Checkpoints: After each day's work, EAC'S Project Managers and a few members of the client’s team will quickly review the status of activities that went during the day's session, and what can be improved moving forward. These brief sessions are critical to the success of the Project. They offer an opportunity for sharing technical and non-technical practices and checkpoints. Since not all projects are the same, our Project Managers will work with the organizations team to determine if weekly, or bi-weekly checkpoints are more appropriate, given the project scope.
• Empowerment: EAC believes in empowering individual consultants in their areas of expertise, as well as empowering client teams in our methodologies and processes. Team members, consultants and clients are treated as equals. EAC'S Project Managers recognize the goal is to involve the client team in all aspects of project activity. The transfer of knowledge from day one ensures the application can be maintained and enhanced for years to come, without relying on EAC's assistance.
• Project Management Tools: EAC'S consultants are familiar with a wide array of the leading Project Management tools available today. Many of our senior project managers lean toward the Best in Class tools, and have extensive experience in applying the tasks appropriately. Control and order is critical. At any point during projects, clients can obtain an up-to-date 'executive dashboard' of which consultants and team members are working on various sections or get an overview of the entire project.
• PMI Certification: EAC'S Project Managers typically bring a wealth of relevant certifications to each project. Due to the volume business EAC completes annually with the largest early adopters of Six Sigma and other quality assurance methodologies, we have great depth across our service lines in this area.
• Resource Planning: EAC'S project managers have an in-depth understanding of the specific functional roles required for the client’s project to succeed. They can readily determine how many visionaries, technical resources, functional resources, SMEs, etc. are needed for the client’s particular needs.

EAC'S Project Managers bring a wealth of experience to their projects, but what sets our organization apart from many others is the wide exposure to Best in Class methodologies and specialized project managers by industry and focus on building momentum and consensus around the IT solutions that achieve your business objectives. Our organization believes vertical and industry specialization offers a distinct advantage to clients by having individuals with an understanding of the specific business challenges in a given industry, in addition to various methodologies and processes. Our Project Managers bring extensive experience to our client engagements. We distinguish ourselves onsite by adhering to Best Practices and processes refined over many years, which transcend various technologies and established set of principles we impart to our consultants and share with your team members.

EAC'S project managers possess extensive 'C-Level Management' exposure and experience. Seniority and experience in working with executives of this type also ensures that we can manage any project changes, and also provide high-level technology recommendations for future applications as well. We strive to achieve and incorporate these with every engagement.