


PROFESSIONAL SERVICES








PROFESSIONAL SERVICES





PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
MANAGING TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP
Program management ensures individual projects are aligned with overall business strategies and delivered on-time and on-budget. We use a model-based Agile methodology to hit time-to-market goals without compromising long-term total cost of ownership (TCO).
Eastern Wind’s PMO services are offered as an integral component of an end-to-end solution or as a standalone service to ensure a successful outcome for internal or outsourced project teams. Our program managers have years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies managing programs from $1M to $100M USD.




SOURCING
With years of experience on both sides of the table, we can assist you in development and scoring of professional Requests for Information and Requests for Proposals designed to identify and qualify the best candidates for any project. You can be confident that only the most qualified vendors are objectively selected and that contracts are awarded based on a transparent process.
CONTRACT AND VENDOR MANAGEMENT
Our Vendor Relationship Management practice is an end-to-end service that includes contract negotiation, service level agreements, and ongoing performance tracking and conflict resolution for projects and outsourced operations.


PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGIES


HYBRID AGILE
Eastern Wind has developed a hybrid “model-based Agile” (MBA) methodology to ensure predictable outcomes in even the most complex projects. Key elements of MBA include:
- Process and data models provide a holistic context for each sprint and each Agile team, so that developers can focus on selected backlog items knowing that “done” work will be generally consistent with downstream components.
- Process and data models are always “complete” in the sense that they represent the end-to-end business model (to be supported by the project).
- Just-in-time - process and data models provide only as much detail as is necessary to support each sprint – and, in fact, are elaborated in parallel with each sprint.
BENEFITS
In our experience, MBA can substantially reduce risk, minimize rework and enable teams to deliver products with a significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO) – at its core, MBA is a TCO-driven methodology:
- Backlog item selection is based (in part) on the foundational value of a component.
- Manageable risk - complexity can be identified up-front so that costly design errors can be avoided.
- Progressive - risk and complexity management is based on progressive elaboration – it doesn’t force teams into long-running (and unproductive) analysis.


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Offices
- US: Manchester, VT
- CH: Shanghai, PRC
- US: +01 415.870.0962
- CH: +86 950.135.100.0557
- [email protected]
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