To deliver on the promises of our other services, we provide qualified project managers. They can help deliver a project as part of a wider piece of work with you, or work a cascade road map of change projects. Examples include anything from deploying a new database to integrating people, process and technology. The NDB team is experienced within the Oil and Gas industry, but we also bring cross-industry best practice and ideas.
Project start-up is critical, and it can be difficult to get projects off the ground, whether that’s due to lack of resources, skills or getting stakeholder buy-in and agreement. We can offer short-term, interim project management to kick your project off, putting our team at your disposal to come in and work with you, defining your project requirements and getting the essential support, enabling you to get on with the day job.
For this and all our projects, we use a light-weight project management tool called Consultative Process Workshop (CPW) that links hypotheses about the issues with a strict approach to data gathering and analysis. The key part of this process is the concept of the 'informed interviewer'. Because we know the subject, we can reduce the burden on interviewees and get their buy-in.
Particularly during times of change and transition, it can be helpful to involve an external project manager – someone to liaise between various parties and who can be impartial. This can be particularly pertinent when changing service providers where you have more than one supplier. We can provide an experienced project manager, or team, to oversee the project and work between your suppliers. This approach can improve communication between the parties involved, speeding up the transition and achieving your goals better and faster.
This oversight role is normally for our most experienced project managers. Whilst managing a suite of projects, the role is very much around mentoring the current stakeholders and providing assistance to projects that have lost their way. Very often, good technical staff are "asked" to manage a project that they have no competence in. NDB have provided a full Project Office support group in some companies, showing the technical staff how to run a project with defined templates and reporting structures.
