I.S.P.  

• About ISP Services
• UBC Project Management
  with Microsoft Project
  May 11 to June 15, 2012
• Business Process
  Improvement
• Build project management information systems
• Deploy Project Management
  in an organization
• Deploying Microsoft Project Server and Project Web Access.
• Estimating effort and Cost
• Expedite team processes with turbo brainstorming
• Facilitating Strategic Planning sessions.
• Fast tracking projects with high-performance teams.
• Microsoft Project training and coaching for project managers.
• Presentations and Conferences
• Recommended Books
• Rescuing projects in trouble.

ISP ensures project success through proven methods and tools. We apply the best practices of leading organizations and continuously improve our methods. Training introduces these strategies to an organization. Coaching speeds their adoption. Brainstorming stimulates thinking and unlocks people’s creativity throughout all project phases and activities.

ISP provides an online consulting, training and support service. Learn Microsoft Project from your workstation at your own pace. Get expert assistance to overcome your planning challenges.

Plan to succeed with project management. Planning reduces future uncertainty. Plans communicate a vision of how to meet objectives. During planning, the project manager thinks through the sequence of work packages to produce the results to help clients reach objectives.

ISP customizes Microsoft Project to build Project Management Information Systems (PMIS) for clients to help them complete projects successfully. ISP provides project planning, project management training, information systems design, facilitation and consulting plus powerful tools that make a difference since 1979.

All processes can be improved. 

• Identifying business processes to improve.
• Process Mapping
• Team collaboration and Brainstorming
  • Shorten Meetings and improve results
  • Brainstorm a topic
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Checkerboard Brainstorming with Microsoft Word
• Process Improvement
• Developing alternative processes with Creative thinking
• Design Innovative Products
• Best Practices
  • Toyota's Lean Strategy
  • Workstation ergonomics
  • Cost Benefit Analysis comparing old and new processes.

• Define Standards and Guidelines
• Train Project Managers
• Project Information Systems
• Customize Microsoft Project
• Project Server deployment

• Centralize project information in a central database.
• Defining management reporting.
• Creating RBS codes
• Importing resource definitions.
• Defining timesheet procedures.
• Importing existing projects.

• Facilitating brainstorming sessions
• Build trust and respect
• Defining client objectives
• Scope definition
• Risk analysis
• Generate more creative solutions
• Open communications channels with executive reviews

• Developing and deploying methods, standards and guidelines
• Using team planning sessions to involve team members in the planning process.
• Skill assessment.

• Analyzing resource workload across multiple projects.
• Defining custom tables and views for reporting.
• Capturing work effort with times using Project Server.
• Customizing Microsoft Project.
• Defining management reporting.
• Creating custom tables, views and fields

• Front end planning to use valuable executive time effectively.
• Brainstorming sessions to capture ideas and action.
• Action plans to achieve results.
• Documenting the session.

• Presentations and Conferences
• Training
• Recommended Books
• Define client needs
• Project Management Institue website

six day Award of Achievement course offered by the University of BC three times per year.

• Creating exciting job descriptions to attract talented employees
• Accelerate recruitment cycles.

• Assessing project health.
• Developing a rescue strategy.
• Implementing the rescue strategy.