Successful Planning and Scheduling Starts with Ardent Principles
Ardent Principles has developed a data-driven approach to client services. Honed and refined over time, our method successfully eliminates inefficiencies while using automated tools to increase accountability across programs and projects. The Ardent approach provides an easy way for clients to plan a project’s scope, map out resources, manage risks, and track changes in documentation.
THE ARDENT PRINCIPLES APPROACH
At Ardent Principles, we understand that program and project planning are much more than simply developing a schedule. Our approach provides the necessary tools to help clients plan and manage their projects in an Agile or Waterfall environment, while ensuring resource optimization, risk and issue tracking, deliverable execution, and milestone tracking for the duration of the system development lifecycle.
OUR SOLUTION PROVIDES A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MANAGING A PROGRAM OR PROJECT
Ardent’s integrated service offerings ensure all approved scope is planned, budgeted, and scheduled, and is vertically and horizontally traceable to both the statement of work and the task order through a work breakdown structure.
Our Planning and Scheduling Capabilities Include:
- Establishing and sustaining a Project Management Office (PMO)
- Developing a Roadmap
- Establishing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Providing an Integrated Management Plan (IMP)
- Developing and automating an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
- Verifying, validating, reporting, and analyzing the IMS
- Analyzing and managing risks, and planning any needed mitigation actions
- Developing, implementing, controlling, and tracking changes
