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ISP helps you deliver results faster

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.

Planning reduces schedule time and cost while improving quality, reliability and performance. Planning provides the opportunity to select superior alternatives. Planning improves project team organization and reduces the waste of resources.

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.

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.

ISP offers coaching, consulting and training in the following areas
Project Management
  • Initiating Projects properly - Laying the foundations for success
  • Cost benefits analysis
  • Managing requirements definition
  • Managing design processes
  • Expedite team processes with Turbo brainstorming
  • Build project team commitment with Team planning sessions
Microsoft Project training and coaching for project managers.
  • Creating project plans.
  • Assigning resources to tasks.
  • Analyzing resource workload.
  • Tracking project progress. and reporting project progress.
  • Coaching project managers when planning first plans in Microsoft Project.
Expedite team processes with turbo brainstorming
  • Facilitating brainstorming sessions
  • Build trust and respect
  • Defining client objectives
  • Scope definition
  • Risk analysis
  • Generate more creative solutions
  • Open communications channels with executive reviews
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Deploying project management with Microsoft Project
  • Assessing management reporting requirements.
  • Creating templates to speed plan creation.
  • Training
  • Coaching project managers to prepare their first plans.
  • Developing change control procedures and tracking.
    		• Build project management information systems to manage resource assignments and workloads
    • 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
    		Deploying Project Server and Web Access.
    • Centralize project information in a central database.
    • Defining management reporting.
    • Creating RBS codes
    • Importing resource definitions.
    • Defining timesheet procedures.
    • Importing existing projects.
    Building high-performance teams.
    • Developing and deploying methods, standards and guidelines
    • Using team planning sessions to involve team members in the planning process.
    • Skill assessment.
    		Facilitating Strategic Planning sessions.
    • Front end planning to use valuable executive time effectively.
    • Brainstorming sessions to capture ideas and action.
    • Action plans to achieve results.
    • Documenting the session.
    		Recruiting project teams.
    • Creating exciting job descriptions to attract talented employees
    • Accelerate recruitment cycles.
    Planning and managing projects.
    • Initiating projects.
    • Feasibility studies.
    • Clarifying client objectives.
    • Presenting business cases
    		Rescuing projects in trouble.
    • Assessing project health.
    • Developing a rescue strategy.
    • Implementing the rescue strategy.
    		Business process mapping and improvement.
    • Identifying business processes to improve.
    • Documenting business processes.
    • Defining work steps and resources for each process.
    • Developing alternative processes.
    • Cost Benefit Analysis comparing old and new processes.

    About Brian Mullen, M.Sc., president of I.S.P. information systems planning corp.

    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.

    Concurrent documentation supports communication and helps decisions stick. The ISP project management course materials now include a thousand pages of course material.

    ISP offers a wide variety of in-house training courses to clients. The most popular are Project Management and Microsoft Project. You can see a detailed agenda for each course by clicking on the course name in the table below:

    Warning: This web site under continuous improvement.

    Click here List of Recommended books on Project Management, Team Building, Estimating, Software Development methodologies, requirements definition, and Microsoft Project.

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    		 information
    systems
    planning corp.     		5361 Malaspina Place
    North Vancouver
    B.C.V7R 4L9

    Copyright March  11, 2007 Brian Mullen, I.S.P. information systems planning corp.
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    Last updated: May 2, 2007