Project Management

Complex projects. Clearly led.

Project managers, PMO and analysts for initiatives with many stakeholders, dependencies and decisions. Methodical, with clean knowledge management.

Methods toolkit

Method, not gut feeling.

Proven tools, applied consistently. At the core is our knowledge management.

At the core

Project knowledge & Second Brain

Every project gets a structured knowledge system: goals, decisions, meeting notes and documents in one place, linked and searchable with AI. New team members get up to speed faster, and nothing gets lost.

  • Every piece of information exists exactly once.
  • Every task contributes to a goal.
  • Every topic has one person responsible.

Meetings using the McKinsey method

Decide instead of inform: outcome before agenda, hypothesis before discussion, action items before minutes.

RACI matrix

Who is responsible, who decides, who is consulted, who is informed. Clarified before there’s friction.

Risk matrix & risk board

Assess risks by likelihood and impact, and track them until they are resolved.

Milestone plans on several levels

For the steering committee, partners and the corporate level, with dependencies made visible.

Transparent monthly reporting

Every month, a precise breakdown of where our time goes. You steer your budget and see where internal hurdles slow things down.

Status on one page

Traffic-light status per workstream, every week. Honest, even when it’s yellow or red.

Committee papers with quality loops

Align the storyline, draft, review internally, finalize. Decisions get prepared, not postponed.

Scenario analysis

Worst case, conservative, dynamic: sound decisions, even when a lot is still open.

Stakeholder map

Who has influence, who is affected, who needs to be on board early?

Roles

The roles we fill.

Experienced people who lead projects rather than just administer them. On site and remote, in the EU and the US.

  • 01

    Project Manager

    Responsible for goal, plan and result. The link between business units, management and partners.

  • 02

    PMO

    Planning, steering, reporting and committee preparation for programs with several workstreams.

  • 03

    Analyst

    Analyzes markets, data and processes, builds business cases and prepares decisions with solid numbers.

  • 04

    Scrum Master

    Makes sure agile teams deliver: clear processes, obstacles out of the way, honest retrospectives.

  • 05

    Agile Coach

    Supports teams and leaders in the move to agile ways of working, pragmatic rather than dogmatic.

  • 06

    Roles in SAFe

    For example, Release Train Engineer: coordinating several teams in scaled agile setups.

  • 07

    Extra capacity for IT service providers

    We also take on project management and PMO in the client projects of software and IT service providers.

How we work

What you can expect from us.

01

Think ahead

We raise risks before they become problems, and we come with proposals, not just questions.

02

Deliver reliably

Commitments hold. The status is honest, even when it’s uncomfortable.

03

Keep the big picture

Even in large programs, everyone knows what to do next and why.

From our projects

New software, properly rolled out.

A mid-sized service company wanted to make its work more efficient with new software, without disrupting operations.

  • Project Management
  • Tool Selection
  • Change
  1. 01
    Gather requirementsMore than 20 use cases, with every user group.
  2. 02
    Compare the marketAssessed against requirements and data protection, two tested in practice.
  3. 03
    Prepare the decisionA clear recommendation as the basis.
  4. 04
    Manage the rolloutPlan, roles and risks in view.
  5. 05
    Embed it in daily workTraining, a guide and a rollout plan: who gets what, when.

Next step

Need reinforcements for a complex project?

Tell us briefly what it’s about. We’ll tell you honestly whether we have the right people for it.

Philipp M. Mayer

Philipp M. MayerManaging Director

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