Methodology Customization and Deployment
Successfully execute projects on a consistent basis. Save time and money with our proven methodologies customized and deployed to fit your needs.
All organizations need to have a common process in place for managing and executing projects. This common process will provide standards and guidelines to help project managers and project team members successfully execute projects.
TenStep Methodology Customization
When you are ready to develop common processes to improve organizational effectiveness, there are two options available:
Build a custom methodology:
Building a custom methodology may perfectly reflect the philosophy and best practices of your organization:
- Time consuming and expensive;
- Upon completion, your work will look similar to other methodologies in the market.
Buy a methodology and customize it:
Many companies choose to buy or license a pre-existing methodology. Pre-built methodologies usually have most everything your organization needs to be successful:
- May require some customization to meet the specific needs of your organization;
- Even with customization, buying a methodology requires less effort and cost than building one.
TenStep can save you time and money...
TenStep methodologies were built from years of experience and are flexible enough to meet most every organization’s needs. TenStep methodologies are base products, from which we customize the processes to reflect the specific standards, guidelines and templates that are important to your organization.
For Project Management: TenStep Project Management Process™ available in our “ten step” model or in a PMBOK® framework.
For Development Lifecycle: LifecycleStep Project Lifecycle Process™.
Each of these methodologies contain a step-by-step approach for managing and executing projects, starting with the basics and getting as sophisticated as you need for your particular project.
You receive the following products and services:
- Full access to our project management and/or lifecycle methodologies
- An assessment of what you have in place today
- A set of requirements that represent the required customizations
- A complete customized set of processes, techniques and templates to meet your needs
- A solid methodology is essential to successfully execute projects on a consistent basis
TenStep Methodology Deployment
When deploying methodology, one thing is clear –- there is more to it that just providing training.
Implementing a methodology requires that people change how they do their job. The deployment effort should be seen as a culture change initiative. Culture change initiatives require a holistic and multifaceted approach with long-term sponsorship and staying power. It is not unusual for a large organization to take three years to successfully implement a new methodology, while a small organization may take up to a year.
TenStep has the products and expertise to help you create a deployment strategy and deployment plan that is right for you. We recommend deploying methodology in waves, concentrating on the most critical aspects first, and then rolling out increasingly more complex and sophisticated features of the methodology as time goes by.
With TenStep Methodology Deployment we provide:
- A Current State Assessment of your capabilities
- A Future State Analysis of where you want to be
- A Deployment Strategy for getting you to the future state
- A more detailed Deployment Plan that describes the details required to get you to the future state
- In addition, we can also manage and help you staff the subsequent Deployment Project
To ensure your organization fully adopts the new methodology, you must structure a Deployment Project and take a long-term, holistic view. We’ve done it before and TenStep can help you get there.
