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Our experienced team has been providing IT project management services for more than 10 years. With us, you will get:
Our experienced team has been providing IT project management services for more than 10 years. With us, you will get:
- a dedicated project manager that will bring a fresh perspective, years of experience, and revenue to each project;
- team of certified tech professionals, skilled and motivated to build your project, specifically;
- real-time data tracking and analytics, conducted via advanced machine learning tools that help you apply a data-driven approach to business and design decisions.
We want our clients to succeed and use our skills & knowledge to build up the value they want to bring to users and deliver it on time, within budget. With project management expertise, we meet 97% of the SLAs we’ve established with our clients.
Project Management Methodologies We Use
To deliver high-quality IT project management services, we help you find a methodology you’ll benefit from the most, depending on:
- Budget (what you are ready to invest);
- Required team (who’s in the team except for the project manager themselves);
- Risks (big-impact high-stakes enterprise job or an experimental app idea);
- Estimated schedule (how much time you want the job to take, from start to completion);
- Flexibility (is it easy to implement changes in your project);
- Communication terms (how involved you or your stakeholders want to be in the collaboration).
Together, we figure out what your team, project, and business as a whole require — and choose among these six project management technologies and methodologies.
Waterfall Methodology
The oldest project management methodology. Requires an accurately estimated budget, timeline, and scope to succeed. Since all milestones are defined, waterfalls give you a clear step-by-step vision of taking the project to release.
This methodology is for you if:
- your project has a well-defined goal, and it’s not going to change;
- there are no ambiguous requirements;
- everyone, including stakeholders, knows what they want;
- you’re working in a regulated industry that requires step-by-step documentation of the development process (healthcare, finance, etc.).
Agile Methodology
This is a simple iterative methodology that is easy to set up. The idea is to break a large project into a sequence of small cycles (each with a goal and scope) that will eventually lead the project to deployment. Agile methodology is flexible and allows for change at any point in the project lifecycle. It’s created for continuous delivery within short and repetitive development-testing iterations.
This Methodology Is for You If:
- you think the project will change & take shape during development;
- you’re not 100% sure about the end goal of your project;
- speed and time-to-market are your main priority;
you or your clients & stakeholders want to be involved a lot.
Scrum Methodology
This methodology splits the work into short cycles called sprints. An implementation of Agile development, Scrum involves each team member in project development via daily standup meetings and tight collaboration, and it’s focused on delivering results as quickly as possible.
This Methodology Is for You If You:
- want to run development in a short feedback loop between the development team and clients or stakeholders;
- have ideas for experiments and innovations within engineering and design;
- want to do all that quickly and see results a few weeks after the start;
- will want to change and redirect the product’s functions and features in the process.
Kanban Methodology
This methodology is designed to boost productivity within any project and is also one of the Agile implementations. Unlike Scrum, it eliminates sprints and introduces work-in-progress (WIP) limits that define a top boundary for a workload that the team is supposed to handle. Limiting the amount of work can identify inefficiencies within a team and address them quickly.
This Methodology Is for You If You:
- want to clearly see the progress of your project and get at-glance status updates via data visualization tools;
- prefer working continuously with a clearly defined pool of tasks;
- need to identify and fix bottlenecks within your project and processes;
- want to improve collaboration within the team.
Scrumban Methodology
If you want to reap the benefits of Scrum and Kanban methodologies, this one is the way to go. It uses Scrum’s way of prioritizing work to do from the backlog and Kanban’s methods of progress visualization. It allows for flexibility and is good for pivoting, quick changes, and projects that depend a lot on external circumstances and need to adapt to them.
This Methodology Is for You If You:
- want a continuous development flow within the defined scopes;
- look for just-in-time (JIT) systems of decision-making;
- need a combination of continuous improvements and fast results;
- have a fluid project that has to react a lot to customers’ feedback and inquiries.
PMI's PMBOK
Developed by Project Managers Institute (PMI) and outlined in its Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), this is more of a guide rather than a methodology. Top project management experts developed it to outline best management practices and innovative project management technologies required to apply them.
Leverage PMBOK If You:
- want to keep up with the industry’s standards, regulations, and best practices;
- want recommendations on how to increase the profitability of your project via changes in processes;
- work in a country that requires its projects to be led by a PMP-certified project manager (e.g., the USA).
want to build a tightly controlled, predictable project lifecycle.
Genius Software Project Management in a Nutshell
We’ve been providing businesses with IT project management services for over a decade. During that time, we’ve managed to build up a portfolio that, like our services, is constantly expanding and improving. Our team can help you with:
Scheduling
Establish the project lifecycle and lead it from the analysis stage to after-release support and maintenance.
Allocating Resources
Outline the requirements and allocate the resources necessary to implement your project.
Writing Documentation
Create and maintain your project’s technical and project documentation.
Testing
Conduct quality assessment and evaluation.
Managing Risks
Assess risks and create mitigation and threat response strategies for high-risk situations.
Maintenance
Provide day-to-day support for your project after the release.
Problem-solving
Help you resolve any issue within your processes, operations, software design & development.
Professional Approach at Every Stage of Startup Software Development
Customer needs are our top project priority. The members of our team have extensive engineering, design, and domain-specific expertise — they’ve completed dozens of projects in the following industries:
- Travel;
- Hospitality;
- Property Tech;
- HR Tech;
- E-Commerce;
- Retail;
- Media;
- Entertainment;
- Finance;
- Banking;
- Education Tech;
- Healthcare Tech.
Deliver Projects Timely and Effectively
We help you streamline the development of new products and increase the quality of already existing solutions. We help companies uncover and resolve hidden issues within any process or project — and develop training programs to teach them how to do it.
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Our team will provide you with tools & methods you’ll use to evaluate and prioritize stages of your to-market journey and assess your investments. That will allow you to see the future more clearly and be certain of what to do next at any stage of your journey.
Prepare the Organization for Change
Our project management consulting services often include the preparation of organizational structure to adapt. Sustainability and resilience are the two main things cultivated by projects that last — you know how crises and disruptions can shake the world — and we help you install them in the core of your management strategies. We will help your company complete a seamless transition from one management strategy to another. We will make a detailed strategic plan to ensure the sustainability and success of your project.
Develop RFP (Request for Proposal)
To eliminate mistakes and miscommunications, we start any project with your RFP — to clearly define expectations and deliverables and, eventually, avoid error and rework costs.
Manage Projects Remotely
Our managers organize, empower, and control a team of IT specialists worldwide — the virtual development process will allow you to stay up-to-date with a project’s lifecycle wherever you are.
Our high-quality remote IT project management services include:
- cloud-based virtual system designed to help everyone stay in touch;
- time- and expenses-tracking for your project;
- native Zoom integration to arrange virtual standups and online appointments with clients;
- remote project management software with a time converter for distributed teams;
- task tracking & workflow optimization software (Jira, Asana, Trello, Basecamp, YouTrack, and so on) — to structure, navigate, and estimate items in the work processes and delivery dates for them;
- a step-by-step roadmap for every stage of the project;
- narrowing down project iterations;
- weekly or monthly retrospectives with an extra retro after final deployment or launch.
Outsourcing IT PM Services for Your Business
Our top project management consultants have experience in both guiding the development of your products and services from scratch to release and picking up, streamlining, and optimizing projects that are already in development.
They identify bottlenecks that slow the project down and implement key changes to raise it to the required performance level, budget, and timeframes. Our project managers then make sure the product is of the highest quality and the client is satisfied with the results.
How Much Will Your Project Cost?
The price of project management services for your solution depends on various factors, from the type of methodology that fits it to the complexity of the product or service you’re trying to develop.
Contact us to get an accurate cost estimate for Genius’ PM services that will boost your project.
