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In today's increasingly competitive marketplace, businesses are challenged to do more with less. To maintain an advantage in this fast-paced, uncertain economic environment, your organization must optimize its resources, secure timely access to data and effectively collaborate through consistent, repeatable processes.
Capstone can help you meet these mandates by improving your current business practices. You'll gain greater visibility, insight and control of your programs and projects. Our solutions will lead to increased profitability, higher quality, more timely delivery and greater adherence to budget parameters. Your organization will be able to accurately plan and efficiently control its output through optimized internal processes. You'll stay focused on worthwhile endeavors, while eliminating cumbersome and unnecessary tasks.
Our in-depth experience across multiple industries gives us a unique understanding of best practices in project management. We work with you to form a customized solution that aligns business processes with strategic objectives. Our people become a seamless extension of your workforce, performing superior services at competitive rates. You'll find that we do the job right the first time, saving you time and money.
Since 1994, Capstone has met the project management needs of Fortune 50 companies and small businesses alike.
Project management solutions from Capstone can help you attain results by aligning strategic objectives with business practices. Our project management services include:
- Design Professional Prequalification, Bid Invitation, Evaluation & Selection
- Permit Process Control
- Construction Document Quality Assurance Review
- Project Budget Development & Control
- Project Schedule Development & Control
- Risk & Contingency Analysis
- Contractor Prequalification, Bid Invitation, Evaluation & Selection
- Design & Construction Contract Formation and Administration
- Manage EPMS implementations
- Manage Project Management Office (PMO) implementations
- Auditing
- Budget/Business Analysis
- Earned Value Management
- Project Forensics
- PM&I-specific Project Management
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Management
- Cost Controls
Project Management - Process Development
- Develop project management policies and procedures
- Project Management Office (PMO) Setup and Implementation
- Implement processes into an automated environment (i.e., Microsoft Project, Primavera, etc.)
- Business Process Development
- Maturity Assessments
- Procedure Development
- Program Assessments
Project Management - Integration with third-party vendors
System Integrations are necessary to assist clients with the implementation of an Enterprise Project Management System and third-party or custom applications. Capstone consultants will work with you to determine the best solution to meet your requirements. We have successfully integrated Project Management Systems with a variety of software packages, including Lawson, Oracle Financials, and in-house applications.
Project Management - Tools
Capstone has world-class expertise in the Primavera lines of products as well as the Microsoft Project lines.
Scheduling
CPM scheduling is a core service provided by Capstone. We continually improve this capability through diversity of software competencies and technology advancements in order to provide cutting edge planning, integration and reporting expertise. Every client and project is unique. Each project presents different sets of standards and requirements. Capstone tailors the scheduling and reporting systems to meet the specific parameters and constraints that may be established for a project. We also optimize the efficiencies of these management systems to provide the most effective planning, execution, monitoring and control capabilities for our clients and projects.
Capstone provides clients with planning and scheduling support for all project phases, from development and predesign through construction closeout. Our staff has several Primavera (P3, P6 and the full suite of products), SureTrak, Expedition, and Microsoft Project software qualified experts. Services that we provide include:
- Design and Pre-Construction Planning
- Project Master and Life Cycle Planning
- CPM Schedule Development, Implementation, Review and Analysis
- Progress and Performance Measurement
- Schedule Resource and Cost Loading Management
- Change Control
- Recovery Schedule Development, Implementation, Review and Analysis
- Delay, Disruption, Impact, and Acceleration Analysis
- Schedule System Development and Integration
MICROSOFT PRODUCT DELIVERY SOLUTIONS (MPDS)
Implementation
Capstone’s MPDS team is deeply committed to ensuring our customers achieve seamless alignment with our design and implementation strategy, prioritizing their success above all else. Our approach centers on the principle that our performance is directly tied to the success of our customers. To achieve this, we adhere to an agile methodology framework, embracing the iterative nature of crawl, walk, run. Through carefully structured iterations and sprints, we meticulously assess and fulfill all identified requirements from the initial gathering phase. This process allows us to continuously refine and enhance our solutions, ensuring they evolve in line with our customers' evolving needs.
Integration
MPDS System Integrations play a pivotal role in facilitating the seamless implementation of our Enterprise Microsoft Solutions (EMS), often necessitating collaboration with clients to integrate third-party or custom applications. These integrations extend support to diverse data sources, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and other business applications. Guided by the expertise of MPDS Architects, we meticulously design platforms tailored to meet your specific requirements. Our track record showcases successful integrations of EMS with an array of software packages, ensuring optimal functionality and cohesion across your ecosystem.
Customization
Capstone excels in offering diverse customization options tailored to our customers' unique needs. One notable offering includes custom project guides meticulously crafted to reflect specific business methodologies. Leveraging APIs such as the Project Data Service, we establish secure online connections to specific Microsoft PPM Applications, enabling seamless check-in/out functionality. Additionally, we implement project listing capabilities to refresh reports displayed on digital dashboards, ensuring real-time access to critical project insights.
Integration with Company Culture: Embedding Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) within the fabric of company culture is paramount. These actionable goals and business drivers delineate the organization's aspirations, providing a clear focal point for endeavors and desired achievements. Measurable milestones gauge progress toward objectives, while specific, time-bound, and ambitious key results offer lucidity. This cultural integration commences at the executive echelons and cascades down to middle management for seamless execution, action, and feedback.
Alignment Enhancement: Ensuring coherence among individual, team, and organizational OKRs is imperative. Misalignment can lead to disparate parts of the organization pursuing conflicting objectives, resulting in inefficiencies, and diminished overall efficacy. This aspect of the solution emphasizes the need for all teams to synchronize efforts toward overarching objectives, while allowing for nuanced differences in approach at the initiative level.
Regular Review and Feedback Reinforcement: Consistent check-ins and feedback sessions are pivotal for OKR success. Without regular review and feedback mechanisms, teams may veer off course from intended objectives, lacking timely adjustments. Viva & Viva Goals offer a remedy here by facilitating initiatives/projects reevaluation and potential suspension if results diverge from alignment expectations.
