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APPLIED SOFTWARE OVERSIGHT SOLUTIONS |
Helmes&Co implements proprietary project controls and program
management oversight systems for all types of capital projects.
Capabilities:
- Labor productivity modeling
- Management & IT needs assessment
- Performance-indicator dashboards
- Program performance risk modeling
- Schedule & budget monitoring
Labor productivity modeling
Productivity impacts usually arise during the later stages of a
project when the time remaining imposes increased schedule pressure
on the work remaining to be completed. A contractor bears a
significant burden of proof to demonstrate that additional work or a
change event caused impacts or losses during contract work.
Helmes&Co develops productivity models using sound, tested
methodologies, and we have a strong track record of developing
legitimate inefficiency claims and defending loss-of-productivity
claims.
Management & IT needs assessment
Helmes&Co has performed a number of project-wide management reviews
and special-purpose management assessments. These reviews have
focused primarily on streamlining project management processes
and/or specific departments to efficiently achieve management goals.
We assess management plans and offer performance-improvement
recommendations.
Performance-indicator dashboards
To help stakeholders in capital projects quickly identify problems,
implement timely solutions, and improve results, Helmes&Co developed
Performance Trustee®, a performance-indicating dashboard.
To tailor Performance Trustee to a project's particular needs, our
consultants collaborate closely with project professionals to
uncover performance expectations and establish performance rules,
against which actual performance is measured. When performance
deviates from the predetermined expectations, our rules-based system
highlights the exceptions and ultimately triggers and guides
management actions.
We periodically interview project professionals, visit the project,
and, if necessary, meet with the project owner to enhance the
monitoring effort and guarantee accountability. Some of the key
benefits of Performance Trustee include:
Efficiency
Key performance metrics are compiled over a portfolio of projects
and are clearly presented through a user-friendly portal interface.
Increased accountability and productivity
Performance metrics are clear and transparent so senior management's
reliance on both internal personnel and external resources are
reduced.
Reduced claim exposure
We have identified areas where professionals may be vulnerable to
claims alleging substandard or negligent performance. The
capabilities of Performance Trustee enable management to identify
weaknesses in these areas and take the actions necessary to reduce
exposure to claims. Areas of potential vulnerability include:
- Clarity of expectations
- Code compliance and interpretation
- Commitment to schedule
- Communications and information flow
- Completeness of construction documents
- Cost growth and budget impact
- Decision-making, timeliness
- Discipline and design package coordination
- Documentation process and protocol
- Staffing qualifications and capacity
- Validity of design criteria or assumptions
Program performance risk
modeling
Helmes&Co's Risk Management and Planning System (RMPS) can
systematically identify areas of risk and align program expectations
with the dynamics of the program development. RMPS facilitates early
intervention and accommodates a program's unique characteristics and
needs.
RMPS provides a coherently structured communication platform and
integrated protocol that is scalable and adaptable to the
requirements of a program. It allows program managers to establish
and monitor a risk management process based on information gaps and
identified action items.
This process-centric tool allows the multi-faceted team to visualize
a consistent set of data definitions and structures and share a
common understanding of the relationships between activities, costs,
and resources. This foundation is critical since programs use a
shared pool of resources.
RMPS disseminates essential information such as hierarchical risk
breakdown, risk ownership, and action item responsibilities. It also
hosts an array of functional capabilities associated with program
planning and budget control integrated to successfully close gaps
and meet project needs.
Developed in line with the best practices in program management,
RMPS can be tailored to the goals and strategy of the program to
optimize business performance.
Schedule & budget monitoring
Helmes&Co has extensive experience assessing schedules and
monitoring budgets. Our services allow management to focus on
achieving desired results within the project schedule and budget
constraints.
Many of our professionals have actively scheduled and managed
projects, and this hands-on experience is a valuable asset in
examination and development. We have successfully analyzed and
defended many contractor delay claims.
Our consultants utilize the most current project data as well as
prospective and retrospective views. In addition to forensic
analysis of schedules, we also develop recovery or "to-go" schedules
for contractors and owners.
Although we are skilled in the use of scheduling tools and
understand their features and "tricks," we also take a practical
approach, applying reasonable logic to ensure our schedule analysis
is valid.
We are familiar with issues of float suppression, multiple
calendars, resource loadings, compare programs, and other types of
scheduling and monitoring tools.
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