Project Management as a contracted service provides customers with qualified project managers that will lead agency IT projects using Customized Project Management Tools and Templates.

Features

ITD's Project Managers utilize a consistent approach for project management that is based upon the methods, techniques, and best practices defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI). They have experience managing projects related to application development, commercial software implementations, and infrastructure deployment. ITD's Project Managers provide:

• Detailed knowledge of North Dakota Century Code and Enterprise Architecture standards
• Utilization of the North Dakota Project Management Guidebook and Customized Project Management Tools and Templates as a consistent, repeatable, and successful project management process
• Specific business and technical expertise for agency IT projects
• Project status reporting, including various project performance metrics
• Effective management of resources to complete a project on-time and within budget to meet its strategic objectives

Benefits

• Effective and result-driven IT project management by skilled, disciplined leaders
• Services provided to state agency customers on-demand with no procurement, supplemental staffing or other technical services RFP needed
• Cost avoidance for customers who do not have to maintain and provide their own in-house IT project management resources and skills for performing this type of work on a full-time basis when a full-time resource is not required
• Rates that are competitive; below commercially available alternatives
• IT projects managed using methods, techniques and processes that can be launched quickly and efficiently
• Management practices that are already aligned to state standards
• Well defined project management disciplines that increase the ability to achieve the expected results by monitoring project performance on a regular basis while measuring progress in terms of technical, financial and scheduled events