Most IT organizations tend to be more reactive and find themselves trying to catch up with the business. The common theme that we see is the lack of a solid project management discipline. The SMS Project Management portfolio specializes in short duration, high impact projects essential to your data center.  Our services include:

• PMO Development

Developing a project management office is critical to manage your projects, resources, and most importantly, expectations


• Large Project Management

SMS has seasoned project managers available to help you run your critical projects. Your staff can co-manager with our people and learn how to successfully run a large project.


• Project Management Training

SMS offers a “PMO in a Day” training course to familiarize your staff with the basics of project management. This helps them respond to the PMO accordingly and strengthens your project management bench.

Developing a project management office is the best way to move your organization from reactive to proactive. IT and Business goals begin to align, organization maturity increases, and your staff is working smarter hours.

Successful and mature IT organizations have a strong project management office. Defining clear scope, deliverables, resources, and costs are critical to running projects. Your company’s project management office is the place where these quality standards are set from the beginning. SMS offers certified project management specialists can help you develop your PMO and make it a part of your everyday culture without burying your department in bureaucracy.

Project Management: Large and Small

SMS offers project management services for both large and small projects. Our cross-industry project management team has “live” IT project experience and brings forth the “client” perspective in our methodology and approach. We believe that benefit realization requires a balanced team of industry and consulting experiences.

Our experienced team has unique expertise with the success factors and common pitfalls of managing projects. Our project expertise includes:

• Data center migrations
• Data warehouse projects
• Application development
• ERP upgrades / conversions
• Technical changes and upgrades
• Disaster recovery program development

Too busy to train your IT staff on the fundamentals of project management? Try SMS’s Project Management in a Day training session. We can lift your department’s project maturity in a day. Our service uses the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) as its basis and teaches your team key elements of project management like:

• Gantt charts
• Scope and Definition Creation
• Communication Planning
• Work Breakdown Structures
• Resource Scheduling
• Critical Paths, Milestones, Schedules and Timelines

SMS can help you develop any type of training sessions and material as part of your project rollout. Our team of experienced project managers and trainers have years of experience helping company’s just like yours to increase their quality and reduce errors through proper management and training.