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Consulting and Contract Staff Services

Effective project management delivers the framework within which people can combine their talents and work towards achieving common goals. Mosaic's services are designed to enhance the ability of business to harness the skills of their staff to, plan and track projects, spot new opportunities and reshape services to seize the competitive advantage. The Mosaic Project Services team have been helping organisations deliver successful project outcomes by providing effective support services to our clients and their projects for over 15 years [ view client list ]. We customise the delivery of our services and level of assistance offered to provide the optimum return on investment for each client. Options include :-

• Stakeholder Circle™ implementation and support services [ see on-site support ]. We remain actively involved in the development of the Stakeholder Circle and have knowhow and data management systems to assist in implementing this best practice system.
  
  
• Project office implementation, development and support including project administration and data systems. Mosaic can help develop the key facets of a PMO's role including: Methodology (simple and scalable), Mentoring (including training) and Measurement (QA and reports); plus providing a 'home community' for the organisations project managers.
  
  
• OPM3 support services [ see OPM3 Assessment, Consultancy and On Site Support ]. We remain actively involved in the development of PMI's OPM3 standard and have knowhow and data management systems to assist in the roll out of this best practice system.
  
  
• Providing a full or customised project scheduling, updating and monitoring service using our staff [ see more on Planning and Scheduling ].
  
  
• Providing full time contract staff to work as an integral part of a project team.
  
  
• Short term "Project Start up" planning and support.
  
  
• Claims preparation and analysis (including Expert Witness work) - see our ADR and Dispute Management Section.
  
  
• Developing customised schedule control systems and services including the use of Earned Value techniques, resource scheduling and optimisation.
  
  
• Assisting with Project overviews, recoveries, etc.
  
  
• On Site "one-on-one" training coaching and Mentoring
  
  
• Skills transfer and project team support (provided by a Mosaic team mentor).
  
  
• Tender planning and other peak load relief.
  
  
• Undertaking specific jobs on a fee for service or "lump sum" basis.
  
  
• Providing traditional consultancy services.
  
  
• Delivering formal Project Management Training including our Stakeholder Circle™ and 5-STEPS methodologies plus PMP and CAPM exam preparation. Mosaic is a PMI endorsed Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.)

Within all of the above, our key areas of expertise is the use of integrated systems to deliver effective outcomes. The services offered by the Mosaic Team extend beyond basic requirements to include helping our clients build resilient internal processes and take ownership of the processes developed.

Please Contact Us to discuss ways Mosaic can assist your projects - Email your request to:- consulting@mosaicprojects.com.au

Or telephone (03) 9696 8684

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On Site Support (Project Management Software)

Mosaic offers on-site software training and support focusing on the implementation of practices and procedures to optimise the way the project management software is used as a tool to assist in developing effective schedules to plan and control time, resources and costs on your project(s).

Our consultants work with the project team members (or project office staff) to build, monitor and report on ‘live’ project schedules. Mosaic’s consultancy has two key objectives:

• Assist in developing an effective schedule and implementing effective schedule control processes for the project or business (including to the extent necessary: time, resources and cost; planning, updating and control). [ see more on planning and scheduling ]
  
  
• Transfer the necessary skills and know how to the in-house team members responsible for the on-going use and maintenance of the schedules and systems.

Mosaic’s involvement on-site is designed to taper off as in-house skills and confidence build, our overall commitment is planned to meet the specific requirements of an organisation and adjusted based on actual experience. Mosaic’s on-site support can be augmented with both formal software training courses and project management training courses (including PMP, CAPM, Stakeholder Circle™, OPM3, 5-STEPS and/or Earned Value).

Typically, our consultant will have a fairly intense involvement with the team at the beginning of the process (ranging up to a full time commitment). Once the overall system and procedures are established to the satisfaction of the host organisation, visits are scaled back as in-house skills are developed. Eventually, all that is needed to maintain skills and schedule quality is an occasional visit for an overall ‘health-check’ (typically scheduled at two or three monthly intervals) and the occasional telephone support to assist with a specific problem.

The on-going involvement of our consultants with the team allows Mosaic to provide effective short term assistance to help with peak workloads and staff shortages; we are already familiar with the businesses, its procedures and people. Where appropriate one-on-one mentoring is provided

Mosaic’s consultants have high levels of skill in the use of:-

• Stakeholder Circle™
  
  
• OPM3
   
  
• Primavera (P3, P3e, P3e/c)
  
  
• TeamPlay
  
  
• SureTrak
  
  
• Open Plan
  
  
• ACOS Plus 1
  
  
• Microsoft Project (2002 and 2003)

We can provide one-on-one coaching, training and skills development services plus formal classroom training [ View our client list ].

We also offer a range of books and self-help manuals [ Visit our Books Page ]

Please Contact Us to discuss ways Mosaic can assist your projects - Email your request to:- consulting@mosaicprojects.com.au

Or telephone (03) 9696 8684