PM Consulting
Project management consulting: setting up projects properly and improving them for good
From the project idea to the PM organisation: I bring structure to projects and processes, with an outside view and the experience of over 35 years of project work.
Services
How I support you
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Setting up a new project
Clarifying goals, requirements, roles and approach from the start.
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Stabilising a running project
Identifying difficulties, prioritising what needs action and supporting implementation.
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Developing the PM organisation
Shaping structures, processes and responsibilities effectively.
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Project set-up and project design
Clarifying goals, scope, organisation and approach before the project gathers pace.
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Requirements engineering and requirements analysis
Eliciting, analysing, documenting and agreeing requirements in a specific project – as a clear basis for planning and implementation.
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Project assessment
A structured review of where your project stands, with strengths, development areas and prioritised recommendations for the next steps.
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Project health check
A focused review of the current project situation, with concrete recommendations on what needs action first.
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Project audit
A systematic evaluation against agreed criteria and verifiable evidence – with documented findings and recommendations.
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Maturity analyses
Determining the maturity of your project management organisation and deriving concrete steps to develop structures, processes and competencies.
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Interim project management
Project leadership for a limited time – for planned assignments, to bridge vacancies or when your project needs experienced leadership at short notice.
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PMO and portfolio management
Building, developing and supporting PMOs; steering projects in the portfolio.
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PM organisation development
PM structures and processes, handbooks, standards, roles and governance; processes modelled with BPMN 2.0 where needed.
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AI in project management
Using AI in a targeted and responsible way to support or automate suitable parts of PM processes.
Practice
Examples from consulting
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Testing and certification services
PM software and PM cockpit
Germany · Core team of around 20
- Role and contribution
- Methodological consulting and joint implementation of the already selected software solution with the system vendor. Eliciting PM requirements, mapping methods and tools in the software, and building a PM cockpit and standardised PM processes.
- Result
- Consistent foundations for project planning and control established, and the organisation's PM maturity raised.
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Banking and financial services
Stabilising processes after an IT system change
Germany · Core team of around 50
- Role and contribution
- Project manager with responsibility for scope, cost and schedule, restoring and optimising banking processes after an IT system change.
- Result
- Processing speed and efficiency, which had fallen by around 50% as a result of the system change, brought back to their previous level, and processes optimised.
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Commercial vehicle industry
Process documentation with SAP Signavio
Germany · Core team of around 30
- Role and contribution
- Project manager with responsibility for results and schedule for building process documentation. Leading a consultant team, involving business units, and coordinating and ensuring process capture and modelling in SAP Signavio with BPMN 2.0.
- Result
- Audit-ready process documentation, accepted by an external audit firm, providing a basis for identifying process weaknesses, optimising processes and supporting digitalisation.
Process
How we work together
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Initial call
We clarify occasion, goal and framework, free of charge and without obligation.
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Analysis
Conversations, documents and observation give a clear picture.
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Recommendation
You receive concrete measures with priorities.
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Implementation
If you wish, I support implementation through to the result.
An outside view of your project
Describe your situation to me. In the initial call we clarify which step is the right one now.