Management Consulting - Major IT Projects
Approach
ORION Cybernetics has demonstrated excellence interfacing directly with client primes and the end-user community in delivering turnkey infrastructures.
The work plan and deliverables recognize that your processes, infrastructures, and services are unquestionably evolutionary in nature. Stringent schedules and the challenge of designing "enterprise intelligence" that will accommodate the immediate needs and provide for evolutionary growth, demand a visionary, but practical solution.
Priority is directed to those defined elements that have the greatest need for increased productivity/ commonality. The objective in the longer term is to increase project-oriented flexibility, while reducing the costs for churn management and operations.
Service Management
Strategies include collaborating closely with the Customer's process personnel and / or consultants to fully understand the process and its operation while developing the control philosophy and logic required to achieve the desired operating procedures. Throughout the analysis and integration of skills and technology, economies regarding service velocity and personnel are realized.
ORION Cybernetics has demonstrated excellence interfacing directly with client primes and the end-user community in delivering turnkey infrastructures.
The work plan and deliverables recognize that your processes, infrastructures, and services are unquestionably evolutionary in nature. Stringent schedules and the challenge of designing "enterprise intelligence" that will accommodate the immediate needs and provide for evolutionary growth, demand a visionary, but practical solution.
Priority is directed to those defined elements that have the greatest need for increased productivity/ commonality. The objective in the longer term is to increase project-oriented flexibility, while reducing the costs for churn management and operations.
Service Management
Strategies include collaborating closely with the Customer's process personnel and / or consultants to fully understand the process and its operation while developing the control philosophy and logic required to achieve the desired operating procedures. Throughout the analysis and integration of skills and technology, economies regarding service velocity and personnel are realized.
Rolling Wave Planning & Progressive Elaboration
Rolling Wave Planning is the process of planning for a project in waves as the project becomes clearer and unfolds. In other words we don't need all the detail right now to start planning. Rolling Wave Planning acknowledges the fact that we can see more clearly what is in close proximity but, looking forward ahead, our vision becomes less clear. Rolling Wave Planning is a multi-step, intermittent process, like waves, because we cannot provide the details very far out in the initial planning. Depending on the project - its length and complexity - we may be able to plan as much as a few weeks or even a few months in advance with a fair amount of clarity.
Progressive Elaboration is what occurs in this Rolling Wave Planning process. This means that over time we elaborate the work packages in greater detail. This refers to the fact that as the weeks and months pass we have planned to provide that missing, more elaborated detail for the work packages as they now appear on the horizon.
More importantly, this method allows 'DECOMPOSITION' - breaking down the project into smaller, bite-sized chucks (no more than 6-weeks duration) that can be easily understood by the recipient of the assignment. The further down the organization chart you are, the more detail is required, the further up, less detail.
Progressive Elaboration is what occurs in this Rolling Wave Planning process. This means that over time we elaborate the work packages in greater detail. This refers to the fact that as the weeks and months pass we have planned to provide that missing, more elaborated detail for the work packages as they now appear on the horizon.
More importantly, this method allows 'DECOMPOSITION' - breaking down the project into smaller, bite-sized chucks (no more than 6-weeks duration) that can be easily understood by the recipient of the assignment. The further down the organization chart you are, the more detail is required, the further up, less detail.