Headstart

FORTIFY YOUR PROJECT PROCESS

Sound project management is the key to ensuring that business procedures and guidelines are maintained and fulfilled throughout an enterprise. Concept's HeadStart® solution is a SharePoint-based solution designed to be at the epicenter of project activity within any corporation. To allow project participants the ability to focus on the end goal and not just learning the process your Project Management Office must support the methodology in a regulated fashion.

Standardize your Project Management office

Manage projects with knowledge

You're under constant pressure to re-align resources and reposition sub-processes to further strategic objectives during the project lifecycle. From project initiation to close-out (and everything in-between), HeadStart® serves as the hub for project management, empowering all stakeholders to work collaboratively and knowledgeably within a central location.

Looking to standardize your methodology?

Common Starting Points for Project Management Offices

Some of the challenges you face as a PMO may simply stem from the human-to-human interaction currently in place. Other issues may result simply due to the complexity of implementing a project in compliance with the approved methodology. The follow high-level starting points demonstrate how HeadStart® can assist your PMO:

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Top Questions to Ask About your Project Management Office

If you’re in a position to help support the PMO – you know it takes a lot more than providing a few documents to your project managers and participants. HeadStart® helps to provide the foundation for your PMO to grow and foster innovation. You should ask yourself the following questions to see if HeadStart® can assist your teams in their roles:

	Visibility and Accountability Did you feel well informed throughout all stages, sub-process and phases? Did the ability to report delays hinder decision making?
	Training and Readiness Did you lose valuable time training junior managers about the process? Did you spend more time trying to track and comprehend documentation than you did managing the actual project?
	Communication and Transparency Could you rapidly communicate or collaborate regardless of physical location? Was every project deliverable recorded at every step of the process for transparency and reuse?

Strengthen your Methodology

HeadStart® has been built on an open and customizable framework, and helps to unify your organization's mandated procedures and methodologies to ensure deadlines, standards and deliverable timelines are met. HeadStart® powers the project management process by giving decision-makers, project managers and team members the knowledge, transparency and project structure required to be successful in their roles.

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Put your Knowledge to Work

You've witnessed growing succession throughout your organization as your experienced workforce retires and the influx of junior and less seasoned personnel contributes to the depletion of knowledge in project environments. HeadStart simplifies and automates the knowledge capture process to synthesize the experiences of senior PM veterans with junior staff members. Acting as a mentor, HeadStart delivers step-by-step instructions and recommendations for junior team members on demand. HeadStart builds project-centric and self-supportive teams driven by context-based lessons learned.