Project Management

Manage projects.
And people.
And budget.

On time.

Our project managers come out of technology. They read a design, not just a schedule — and spot the gap in it before it becomes a missed date.

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Analyze

Analyze the scope, dimensions and constraints of the project. Involve stakeholders. All of them.

Plan

Plan the execution. Divide and conquer. Small but realistic steps. Go fast alone. Go far together. Decide now.

Execute

Observe and manage the execution. Adjust. Support. Handoff points are key.

Check

Make sure together that the targets are met. Handoff. Knowledge transfer.

One project manager, not three

One project, one person accountable. Shared responsibility is usually none at all — it spreads until nobody holds it.

Handoff points are the test

Projects fail at handoff points, not at milestones. Plan them when they come up and you have already lost. With us they are in the plan from the start — with a name on each one.

Success stories

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Mainframe retirement

IBM mainframe out, x64 in. Up to 28 specialists on the project, a mix of external experts and the customer's own people. A mainframe is business-critical by definition — there is no trial run at half load.

The actual work: prying the COBOL applications and DB2/z structures out of the legacy system. Analyze, extract, rebuild. Plus a new development pipeline so the applications would not only run after the move but could keep evolving.

The target architecture came out of that mix: Micro Focus COBOL Enterprise Server specialists, Oracle people, DB2/z architects. The customer ran the migration themselves. We built the road and kept a hand on it.

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FTTH network in Hesse

Fiber to the home. Surveying, planning, procurement, budget and the coordination of the crews doing the work — led by a single project manager, delivered on time.

Not a data center but civil engineering, permits and crews in the field. The difference is smaller than it looks: here too what matters is whether somebody knows the dependencies before they bite.

The network is live and serving residents.