Project Management Office
Illumi Consulting's proprietary Project Management Office (PMO) helps ensure the successful implementation of application development and maintenance projects. It is an integral part of Illumi;s Global Sourcing strategy and Offshore Development Offices. Illumi's PMO offers distinct advantages to clients who desire better results than from traditional outsourcing project models.
The prominent advantage to Illumi's PMO include:
- Alignment of projects to clients' business needs and requirements
- Seamless extension to clients' "brick and mortar" IT processes and standards
- Risk Mitigation
- Tight management controls of costs and project schedules
- Single Point of Contact
- Real-time Collaboration
- Transparency
- Tailored to Offshore/Onshore projects.
The Project Management Office consists of three key organizational elements:
Engagement Management: Illumi’s Engagement Managers are responsible for the overall business relationship with clients. They are single points of contact for clients in resolving issues, and achieving client expectations.
Onsite Project Teams: The onsite team is comprised of Illumi consultants who are responsible for all coordination of activities between onshore and offshore development teams. The Project Teams consist of project managers, system architects, application designers, project planners, and business analysts.
Offshore Project Teams: The Offshore Project Teams are responsible for the development of applications, testing, and other duties assigned to it by the Onsite Project Team. The Offshore Teams are typically comprised of project leaders, architects, DBA’s, programmers, software engineers, quality assurance analysts, and software testers.
Illumi’s Offshore Development Centers (ODC) methodology addresses the following areas:
- Governance
- Security
- Assessment
- Alignment
- Discovery and Knowledge Transfer
- Collaboration
- Project Planning and Support
- Project Management
- Project Documentation
- Service Level Agreements (SLA's)
- Data Security and Data Migration
- Risk Analysis and Mitigation
- QA and Testing
- Application Architecture, Design and Development
- Application Maintenance and Support
- Infrastructure and Network Architecture & Management
- Human Resource Management
- Status Reporting
- Change Management
- Management of Deliverables.