Project and Program Management Services
Helping Your Team Get Over the Finish Line
Providing the leadership, management and communication needed to get get things done.
Flat Rate
Only pay for the hours you use, allowing you to quickly ramp up or down to address start-up or other milestone needs.
Custom Solutions
Flexibility to engage a project or program manager as a 1099 contractor or W2 employee, fully remote or hybrid with an on-site presence depending on your needs.
Cancel Anytime
We understand your needs change, sometimes unexpectedly. You’re not locked into a long-term contract. Cancel with just 30 days notice.
Project and Program Management Services
What Can We Do For You?
Project Initiation
Getting started is often half the battle as you seek to gain alignment on scope and budget across functions and leadership. We’ll assess the situation, align on an approach, expedite the definition to complete your project charter and align to base scope quickly so you can get your effort started.
Team Leadership
Many teams are awash in functional expertise but lack a single resource to manage across functions or levels. We’ll provide an experienced leader with a proven track record of completing complex, multi-functional efforts with geographically dispersed teams so your team can contribute to their maximum potential.
Schedule Control
Missed schedule milestones are often the first indication of trouble. We’ll help your team assess the root cause(s), formulate plans to address them and monitor progress while improving communication within the team and throughout the organization.
Leave of Absence Coverage
Life happens, even the best planned, resourced and skilled teams experience issues with resource continuity. We can provide a project or program manager, team lead, or business analyst to fill a gap in your resource plan.
Cost Control
Reigning in expenses can be a challenge as your team seeks solutions to continued delays. We’ll help assess financial commitments, explore other resource and payment options, create and/or revise a budget, track expenses and improve financial communications.
Coach or Mentor
If your team leader(s) are new to their role or come with a very focused skill set, they may benefit from one-on-one time from one of our Strategic Advisors. Our advisors are experts in project/program management and will expedite the skill development of your team leader(s).
Testimonials
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Rick and his team put a digital marketing plan together for us, reworked our website and LinkedIn presence and are helping us stay connected with our clients and prospects with a monthly newsletter. We'd have never gotten started without their leadership and guidance and now have an internal Marketing Manager working side by side to grow our digital marketing investment.
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Hired these guys for a new e-commerce web site and then received a request for a 2-hour meeting...thought to myself, "what could we possibly do for two hours this early in the website design process?" Turned out to be the most productive two-hour meeting I have ever been in. These folks have a real discovery/design process. Impressive!
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Resources & News
Qualification Earns the Right to Ship — Readiness Gates That Protected a CM-to-Site Transfer
Capital and construction don’t make you ready. Qualification does.
This is the story of a contract manufacturer → internal site migration where the dramatic part was getting equipment into the building… and the deciding part was earning the right to ship.
In operations, we love things you can see.
Construction. Installs. Equipment arrival.
That feels like progress.
Readiness doesn’t always look like progress.
Until you’re in PQ and the process won’t cooperate.
Stage Gates Don’t Work Until They’re Executable
A stage gate isn’t real until it lives in the system.
Stage gates are one of those ideas that everyone agrees with.
They sound like discipline.
They sound like predictability.
They sound like “how serious teams run projects.”
But there’s a version of stage gates that never changes anything.
It’s the version that lives in a slide deck.
And there’s the version that actually improves execution:
The one that turns each gate into clear milestones, assigns owners and due dates, and makes progress visible in the tool where work happens.
Artwork is the Long Pole — How I Scaled Partner Capacity and Integrated Copy Change to Protect a Plant Transition
Most plans underestimate artwork.
This is the story of how a capacity ceiling + a missing PO path could have quietly stalled delivery—and what I did to prevent that.
In operations, we love things you can see.
Equipment. Construction. Line trials.
Those feel like “real progress.”
Artwork feels… administrative.
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