Project Management Office

Your Single Contact for All Data Center Project Management Requirements

The size and complexity of data centers have increased dramatically over the past decade because of new technologies, the explosion of data, and heightened security concerns. However, as today’s data centers grow in size and complexity, so do the challenges of project management.

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A successful data center project management solution should:

• Coordinate relationships among IT, facilities and the business
• Improve project success rates
• Decrease risk, schedule delays and budget overruns

With today’s resource limitations, IT professionals often lack the resources to fully manage complex projects involving multiple vendors, departments and disciplines. A program/change management solution is needed to provide an effective, consistent management solution for all project issues and areas.

Flexible Yet Standardized Solutions

When Collective takes responsibility for part or all of your data center projects, our full-time and dedicated Project Management Office (PMO) is put into operation. At the outset of each project, the Collective PMO assembles a multi-disciplined team of partners and advisors to collaborate on every aspect of project management, from initial requirements to post-implementation audits.

PMO and Collective Project Managers provide you with a single, constant, anchored point of contact for all issues and areas, including work by subcontractors. Collective provides a variety of PMO solutions to manage data center projects, regardless of size or complexity. We can augment inhouse management staff and even help you set up your own PMO. In addition, the Collective PMO approach is based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and provides organizations the structure they need to both standardize project management practices and facilitate the marriage among IT, facilities, and the business.

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Constant Improvements

Our PMO approach has been repeatedly proven to improve project success rates, decrease risk, reduce schedule delays and limit budget overruns. In addition, Collective continuously iterates best practices, methodologies, and technologies at hundreds of customers to constantly improve our PMO offerings. With the establishment of a Project Management Office (PMO), IT professionals can concentrate on what they do best — relationship management, maintenance, and long-term resource issues — while the PMO oversees the cross-functional activities taking place among various vendors and departments.

The Benefits With Collective PMO

With Collective PMO solutions, you will have a single vendor for all project and change management, providing you with:

• A solution that is fully integrated with DCLM, a holistic, comprehensive, strategic view of the data center
• Support for standard Project Management Institute (PMI) focus areas
• Full responsibility for all project reporting and tracking
• Assurance that all projects are executed in a consistent way
• Direct links between projects and the company’s strategic and operating plans
• Change management at one point instead of many
• Combined internal and external checks and balances