R&D Excellence- Tailoring Project Management Practices

Whether a project-oriented organization or an organization that uses projects to resolve specific needs, all projects face similar dilemmas: shortening TTM (Time to Market), maintaining a small budget with limited resources, supporting scope and quality requirements and achieving maximum customer satisfaction. With many different projects, things tend to get more complex as project activities and non-project activities combine and affect each other, leading to different trade-offs.

In today's complex environment, where projects are used to carry out an organization's business objectives, a project portfolio should reflect overall organizational strategy. Therefore it is crucial to have a project and portfolio management approach that is best tailored to your needs.

For organizations that deal with development, the approach should be combined with Product Development practices as well.

R&D Excellence practices help organizations improve the way they manage project-based activities.

Project management and portfolio management styles are becoming increasingly common at international firms. We support development organizations and IT departments in both project-oriented companies and other organizations that manage significant projects.

What We Bring to Our Customers:

• Expertise in Project Management and Portfolio Management
• Expertise in Development Processes and Product Life Cycle
• Global best practices  - PMBOK® , PRINCE2Wide experience in various type of organizations
• High applicability

DFX

By building a link between design processes and a products' desired outputs, Tefen provides an explicit roadmap for DFX (Design for X) culture implementation throughout an organization. This culture consists of behavior standards, concurrent engineering perception, working processes and supporting tools, all of which result in much better and mature products. These products enter the markets with enhanced reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, usability, transportability, and more. Tefen's consultants can tailor the most appropriate DFX approach for your organization, and thus will enable proactive processes resulting in reduced product life cycle costs and increased customer satisfaction.

Project Management Excellence

Tailoring Project Management Best Practices for Your Use.

Tefen's Project Management consultants define Project Management processes and implementation phases in accordance with the goals and targets of your organization.

Tefen employs global Project Management best practices from recognized standards such as PMBOK®, (PMI®), and PRINCE2 and develops a multi-project environment infrastructure of reporting and management dashboards to control schedule, scope, cost, resources, finances, quality, and risks.

Tefen defines an organization's PMO to support the behavioral and process change elements and implementation of enterprise tools. Tefen lays the infrastructure to establish a PMO and provides supporting tools and processes. Through this we help clients enforce their working practices, give transparency to the active project portfolio, and enable management to plan and control critical project execution.
Within Tefen's performance improvement activities, we offer a range of Project Management courses including:

• A tailored PM course adapted to the organization and its needs, focusing on enhancing knowledge and providing relevant professional tips and tools for project managers. The tailored course is based on a short organizational diagnosis.
• Preparation for the PMP® exam - training for the Project Management Institute PMI® certification exam.

Following training, Tefen carries out hands-on coaching sessions to assist Project Managers with embedding the new lessons learned and to provide assistance in implementing the Project Management tools and methods.

ITG (IT Governance)

ITG is the leadership and organizational structure and process that positions an IT executive as the CEO's right hand in achieving strategic goals and business objectives using the organization's IT capabilities.
"IT executives must shift from being gatekeepers to being enablers & service managers."

Tefen works with clients to define a structured IT governance that will improve organizational IT services, productivity, customer satisfaction, and cost reduction.

Risk Management

Risk management is a tool to improve competitive advantage and an organization's performance by identifying risks and opportunities.

Our risk management methodology involves identifying, analyzing, modifying, and monitoring risks and changes.