


Effective project management is a core ingredient in projects achieving stated outcomes in the required timeframe, budget and quality standards. This requires key experienced professionals that can manage resources, resolve conflicts and generally get things done.
Our skills cross the full project life cycle, from project inception through to project closure. Some of our primary skills include:
Integration Management:
Project plan development, project plan execution, and integrated change control.
Scope Management:
Initiation process as well as all the processes related to the scoping of the project.
Time Management:
Activity definition and sequencing processes.
Cost Management:
Resource planning and cost budgeting.
Quality Management:
Quality planning, assurance, and control.
Human Resources Management:
Outlining roles and responsibilities, developing project Organizations charts, creating staffing management plan, project staff assignments, and team performance assessment.
Communications Management:
Establishing communicating management process, documents repositories, performance reporting.
Risk Management:
Identification, analysis, and response to project risk.
Procurement Management:
Vendor requirements, identifications and analysis of additional vendors, and vendor management.

Companies seeking more efficiency and tighter monitoring of IT projects are opening project management offices. Alnair Corporation has been involved in consulting for PMO, development of PMO methodology to boost IT efficiency, cut costs, and improve on project delivery in terms of time and budget. We develop customized Project Management Office tools to better address the necessities of the project as well as set up and personalize off the shelf products.
The
examples
of custom built applications are:
Time Recording System (Allowing recourses from different regions to bill time to projects, billing trend analysis tools, reporting, multi-level management time approval system)
Finance Database - (Expense and project data analysis and reporting tool, generates entries into General Ledger, creates forecasting, interfaced with other systems)
Project Cost Analysis Systems - (Cost performance index -CPI, Schedule performance index -SPI, Budgeted cost of work performed -BCWP)
Vendor Payment System - (System that takes feeds from various systems to generate invoices, create history of payments, transaction journaling, interfaced with other financial systems)
Risk Database and Risk Analytical tools.
Action Item and Change Request Systems
Resource management system for Off-shored resources management.

Along with custom built application we have hands-on experience in using and customizing the following systems, applications, processes:
SOFTWARE: MS Word, MS
Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS FrontPage, MS
Project, MS Access, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, MS Project
Web Access (PWA), MS Publisher, MS InfoPath, MS MapPoint,
Enterprise Project Management (EPM), Project Tracking
System (PTS), JIRA, Adobe (Macromedia) / Flash / Director
/ Dreamweaver / Fireworks, Photoshop, Niku Time, Lotus
Notes, Workbench, Accpac. In-house developed applications:
Resource Management Systems, Risk Management Systems,
Financial Systems, Quality Assessment Systems, Tracing
Systems.
SYSTEMS: ADP (Automated Data Processing),
Client Relationship Management (CRM), Content Management
System (CMS) - Drupal, e-Commerce systems, TrixBox,
Asterisk, Digium, Thor, Essbase.
TOOLS & LANGUAGES (used on projects as well
as hands-on experience): Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005, IIS,
Sybase, MySQL, XML, HTML, Actuate, ER/Studio Ebarcadero,
J2EE, ASP.NET, JavaEE Server, WebLogic, TomCat, Apache,
PHP, JavaScript, Visual Basic (VB), C++, TOAD, ER Win,
JIRA, Mercury (Test Director, LoadRunner), ShockWave
Server.
OPERATING SYSTEMS (O/S): MS Windows, MS
Windows Server, Unix, Linux, DOS, Novell, Pocket PC, Win
CE and RIM (Blackberry) environments.
MANAGEMENT: Project Management Body Of
Knowledge (PMBOK), Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI),
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
(COBIT), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL),
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Project Management
Life Cycle (PMLC), Agile, Waterfall, Spiral, Joint
Application Development (JAD), Rapid Application
Development (RAD), Rational Unified Process (RUP). Strong
analytical, problem solving, decision making,
communication, leadership and time management skills.
COMPLIANCE: Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) emphasis on
sections – 404 & 302, BASEL II – Banking regulations
(Credit / Market Risk), Business Continuity Planning (BCP),
Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Anti-Money Laundering
(AML), fraud prevention and control by PII (personal
identifiable information) obfuscation approach.