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Project Management

All IT projects require careful planning and execution to ensure they are delivered on time and within budget. Careful planning means less risk to your business. Very often the introduction of new systems has to be done out of hours, in possibly a phased manner and usually on a schedule that allows for no downtime. To achieve this, DNA IT Solutions treats even the smallest projects seriously to ensure everything is competently managed.

 

From our experience almost all projects can be broken into five phases:

  1. Initiation

     

    We meet with the client to establish what they want to achieve and it is only when we both have a thorough understanding of the task and challenges at hand that we decide to move forward. Very often this means understanding why the project is being done and whether there is a real need for it. For some projects this means establishing not only what the problem is but also answering questions like ‘is it worth fixing it?’, ‘What will it cost if you don’t fix it?’ ‘What if you do nothing?’ etc. We aim to ensure that we can translate your long range business plans into a workable strategy.

  2. Design

     

    After all the goals and objectives have been reached we then review the scope of work. Then we create and implement policies and standards to manage the workload. After that we design and prepare the project planning documentation.

  3. Execution

     

    Once the design phase has being reached and everyone is happy with the proposed solutions we then implement the agreed project plan.

  4. Monitoring

     

    During and after project completion, we allow the systems to bed down and test all systems to ensure everything is in proper working order and full integrated before introducing them into the production environment.

  5. Completion

     

    Upon completion of implementation and after testing we then review the initial goals and objectives to ensure that all requirements have been met. To finish the delivered project, we provide full Project Completion Documentation, including of all technical documentation and network diagrams.

     

    The above is a very simple model and it is through proper and complete management that we will achieve results. Often you don't know clients aren’t aware of long a project should last or of how many people will be needed to deliver it. At DNA IT Solutions we employ dedicated consultants and project managers who liaise with all parties involved in a project, so from design to delivery we ensure that it is completed on time and within budget. For customers this means minimal risk and peace of mind.