Linda Lee Remba Coaching and Consulting - Project Management, Change Management, Business, Strategy, Small Business

Consulting Services

Corporate Consulting

Now accepting contracts based on availability.
Reach out to talk about your next business transformation initiative or PMO enablement needs.

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Choose from one or all of my services, depending on your needs. 

PMO Setup and Governance Consulting

Service offered:

  • Establish a governance framework for document control, compliance, regulatory requirements, and risk management.
  • Work with your leadership team to prioritize projects, allocate resources, and manage budgets to maximize potential value, while ensuring strategic alignment.
  • Create standards for project management core competencies and capabilities within your team, including credentials and qualifications.
  • Define metrics & KPI’s for Project Managers within your organization.
  • Create best practice methodologies, and determine what tools and templates to use.
    • Templates include, but aren’t limited to: resourcing and coaching plans for managers, RACI, RAID Log, lessons learned, sponsor promise, GANTT, status and health reports, monitoring plans, project management plans
  • Build a Centre of Excellence (COE) based on best practices, increase project management process adherence, and help others within the company understand how projects are run.

General Methodology Consulting

Services offered:

  • Risk Management: We will develop processes and the means to assessing, tracking, reporting, and managing project risks. This includes:
    • RAID
    • Status and health reporting
    • Project communications
  • Methodology Enhancement: We will establish a framework that supports efficient and effective project management. This includes all phases of a project lifecycle, whether its waterfall, iterative, agile, or hybrid, across both business phases (e.g., initiation, planning, execution, closing, monitoring and controlling) and technology phases (planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance). My methods combine multiple methodologies that will enable us to develop a system that works for you:
    • Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC)
    • Change Management
    • Six Sigma Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (DMAIC)
    • Agile tools and methods, e.g., Weighted Shorted Job First (WSJF) prioritization
  • Tools and Templates: Consistency is key to clear reporting, which enables leadership and management to support projects towards success. We will determine what tools and templates are needed, and tailor them for your business’ specific needs.

PMO Talent Management and Capability Development

Services offered:

  • Core Competency Definition: Outlining levels 0-3 / Junior / Intermediate / Senior in each of the key areas that members of a Project Management Office should be competent in, as well as assessment and coaching tools for PMO Managers.
  • Career Pathing: Outlining competencies and helping team members set and achieve goals to grow in their careers.
  • Building Teams: Determining which roles are needed for your Project Management Office, how many resources to hire, and at what levels, aligned to your budget and strategic goals.
  • Training: Building or building continuous training tools to support maintenance and growth of your PMO team members.
  • Onboarding & Knowledge Centers: Starting right makes all the difference, and that means learning about your business, your processes, your teams, roles and responsibilities, and role expectations. We will develop or refine onboarding training as well as supporting content which will be part of knowledge centers that all team members can refer back to easily.

Change Management Consulting

Services offered:

  • Complete a risk assessment, allowing you to make informed decisions.
  • Complete a stakeholder impact analysis to determine where to focus your efforts.
  • Create an overarching change strategy, including assessing the change risk, building a change team, and aligning the change with the project timeline.
  • Build a communications plan to communicate with those involved in the change using senders, mediums, frequencies, and delivery methods appropriate for each impacted group.
  • Create a training plan.
  • Create a coach management plan.
  • Create a reinforcement plan.
  • Assess the impact through a scorecard including value realization, individual change, and performance of the change management on the initiative.

Business Process Improvement

Service offered:

  • Identify stakeholder groups to be involved in current state process map assessment and/or creation.
  • Use current state process maps to develop value-stream maps, and identify areas of improvement.
  • Review current performance indicators to determine whether your business processes support them, and identify ways to improve measurements.
  • Using lean six sigma methods, complete SIPOC diagrams, review the 8 wastes and 5S against your processes to find areas of improvement.
  • Develop a method for prioritizing your improvement initiatives using X-Y matrices, multi-vari analyses, and Pareto charts.
  • Brainstorm using the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) approach to develop future state process maps supporting the improvement initiative or change.

My PMO Enablement Process

Step 1: Analyze Value

I start by assessing every touch point of your delivery process – not just those that the Project Management team is involved in. By doing this, I am able to:

  • create value stream maps
  • understand areas of waste/delay
  • identify tension relationships
  • and see where your processes are veering off course from your strategic goals.

Step 2: Define the future state

Once we are aware of the issues, we’ll collaborate with all departments to build out new processes.

We’ll insert clearly defined roles and responsibilities as well as definitions of done. This includes PMO roles, as well as those from other departments to ensure we are utilizing your resources efficiently, and keeping them aligned to your strategy at all touchpoints.

Step 3: Plan the Implementation

This is where a solid Change Management strategy comes into place. Without building the right awareness, garnering support, developing appropriate and sufficient training, and planning for sustainment, the new processes and behaviors we will have developed will fall by the wayside.

It’s not easy, and it’s difficult to spend the extra time and money on this part – but without it, it’ll all be for naught.

Step 4: Execute the Implementation

I will help you execute on the communications and training plans while ensuring things stay on track through constant feedback and updates to the change strategy – but that isn’t my main goal during this phase.

My main target is to train your managers and directors to be the coaches that the PM team needs. To support not only them throughout the change by becoming experts in the new process, but supporting integrated teams too. This will enable them to carry on with the work we’ve done after I’m gone.

Implementing a PMO affects an entire organization, not just the Project Management team. 

Step 5: Transition off

It’s time to say goodbye.

During this final stage, I will ensure each member of your team is trained in the areas required of them as it relates to the implementation of the Project Management Office.

We will also ensure there is a solid reporting process/tool/system that will help drive the team towards the metrics of success we’ll have defined earlier in the process.

This step is all about sustainment and reinforcement, as well as celebrating the launch of your new PMO.

Pricing

Depending on the service requested, hourly rates vary. Please reach out to discuss your corporation’s need, and I will provide a custom quote.

Factors such as duration and location may impact rates.

Contact me today to discuss your initiative and my availability.