Q & D Technology, Inc.
“A 2020 CISQ report found the total cost of unsuccessful development projects among US firms is an estimated $260B, while the total cost of operational failures caused by poor quality software is estimated at $1.56 trillion (Faeth, 2022).”
Strategic IT Initiatives require Strategic IT PMO Leadership Professionals
IT PMO Consulting Services
Video/Phone Consultation
(Hourly Fees)
A 30–60-minute video or phone conference, where you can receive real-time problem solving, deep dives, Q&A, or brainstorming from longstanding IT PMO professionals. The first 5-10 minutes is free, whereas you can explain your question, problem, or issue and express the organization’s desired outcome or the definition of done. Then, great minds combine to identify available paths to success. Learn More:
A La Carte Services
(Deliverable-Based)
If your organization needs certain deliverables completed, but don’t have the in-house staff with the skillset to produce these outputs, allow our team to actualize these tasks, while your team remains focused on their current vital goals and objectives.
Strategic, Collaborative, Multidimensional Technical PMO Rigor…
Short Term Consulting
(< 3 mos. Full Services Dedicated Assignment)
Whether a SOW (Statement-of-Work) staffing requirement, temporary supplemental staffing, covering your IT PMO staff’s medical or family leave, multiple sprints, a series of Go-Lives, or any other reason you need a seasoned professional to help prevent your team from losing any momentum in their march to complete long and short-term goals. You set the daily or weekly engagement levels, and we rapidly deploy your temporary, ancillary solution-oriented collaborator. Learn More:
Long Term Consulting
(6+ mos. Full Services Dedicated Assignment)
This is typically a full-time placement of an IT PMO consultant/s, devoted solely to your organization for the length of the engagement. The great thing about a boutique consulting firm is that we retain flexibility in how we address your organization’s needs. Once the parameters of the engagement are nailed down, we will rapidly deploy your dedicated solution-oriented collaborator. Learn More:
Customized Service/Solution
Delivery Package
Is your team bottlenecking? Are they maxed out on bandwidth? Maybe your organization needs services from more than one of our consulting services categories. Let us customize our boutique consulting solution delivery options to undergird and fulfill all Gaps in your Technical PMO/PSO staffing infrastructure. Learn More:
We’ve “Been There” and We’ve “Done That.” If you need to platform an event, all-hands meeting, a seminar, or another forum of your choosing, we can speak to your stakeholders, employees, students, partners, or any gathering. Let us share the jewels of our IT PMO journeys, amassed from numerous industries, PMO structures, methodologies, and the comprehensive stockpile of IT PMO SME (subject-matter expertise) knowledge from our careers. Learn More:
PMO consulting Services
Program Management Office (PMO) Leadership Consulting
Types of Deliverables
(not a comprehensive listing of all service offerings)
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PMO Management & Leadership
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PMO Creation & Reconciliation
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PMO Workforce Training & Performance Strategies
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PMO Governance & Maturity Strategies
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Transition from ad-hoc project management to PMO Delivery Models
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Organizational Change Management Strategies
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Interviewing, Onboarding, & Oversight of Project Managers
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Program & Project Management Team Mentoring, Coaching, & Evaluations
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IT PMO Growth Projections, Resource Management, & Hierarchical Frameworks
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Creation of Streamlined Corporate PMO Workflow Processes, Policies, Playbooks, Templates, Performance Metrics Procedures, and PMO Standards
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PMO Liaison between PMO and IT Executives, Engineers, & Architects, and Participation on IT PMO Steering Committees
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PMO Strategic Analytics: GAP Analysis, Root-Cause Analysis, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Competing Priorities, Resistance to Change, Contingency Planning, Decision Analysis, Fail-Safe Triggers, etc.
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Project Rescue Initiatives: “Get Well” Program, Portfolio, & Project Financial & Deployment Planning Restructuring and Reconciliation Strategies
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Project Finance: Spending Projections, Program/Project Burn Metrics, Cost Management, Fiscal Goal Adherence, Categorization and Prioritization of Expenditures, etc.
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Creation of Gate Criteria and Steering Committees; incorporating PMO alignment with IT Executives & Governing/Sponsoring Stakeholders
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Scope Identification, Mapping, Planning, Oversight, & Quality Management
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Work Effort Estimations, Workstream Divisions, CAB Policy Integrations, Fiscal Thresholds, & Project Alignment
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Deployment planning for IT programs to create synergies, cost savings, work efficiencies, and employee work satisfaction
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Centralized Management of IT & PMO Procedural Overlap, including Conflict, Risk, Issue, Quality, Change, Problem, Crisis, Finance, Service, etc.
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Program Health, Performance, & Success Metrics, Baselines, and Benchmarks
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Spearhead Complex Tech Initiatives: Program Feasibility Analysis, POC/Pilot studies, Funding Justification Business Cases, PMO Reporting Criteria, Escalation Paths, etc.
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Program Planning Workshops, Portfolio Launches, Program Stand-Up, Incremental Project Segmentation of Programs & Integration with IT Deployment, Regulatory, Compliance, Legal, and SOW Requirements
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Full-Life Cycle IT Program Delivery: Ideation, Creation, Launch through Solution Realization, Close-out, Archival, and Post-Mortem Evaluations
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Program Swim Lanes, Decision Trees, Project Prioritizations, Cadence Structuring and Maintenance, Identifying Opportunities for Parallel Workflow Accelerations, and Program Financial Change Control Monitoring
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Create Master Program Plans (MPP) with Program-Level Milestones for integration into the Project Plans’ Milestones, Timelines, and Critical Path
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Cross-Program, Project, Team, Workstream, and Departmental Inter-relationship Management: Interdependencies, Intra-dependencies, & interconnected project activity mapping, goals, and collaboration.
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Administrate Resources: Program Resource Allocations, Availability, Capacity, Alignment, Balancing Thresholds, Bottleneck Resolution, & Management
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Risk Governance: Risk Avoidance Measures, Risk Identifications, Risk Breakdown Structures, Risk Mapping, Risk Controls, & Risk Mitigation, whether intersecting or in parallel paths of risk resolution to eliminate all barriers to success
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Authoring of PMO Artifacts: Executive Summaries, Program Charters, Gate Approval Requests, SOWs, Cost Center Financial Analysis, Portfolio Investment Justification documents, etc.
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Uniting PMO Customer Requirements, Regulatory/Compliance, PPM Tool Integration, Milestone Mapping, & Business Process Reengineering for foundational structures of multi-faceted strategic PMO approaches to IT Delivery Success
Hire Q&D Technology IT PMO Leadership Professionals
IT Infrastructure Implementations:
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Umbrella Infrastructure: An exceptional IT infrastructure that is highly valued by our customers
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Unified Systems (Voice/Video/Data)
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Networking (WAN/LAN/SD-WAN Routing/ Switching)
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IaaS, Data Center, VoIP, Telephony
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Wireless LAN (WLAN)
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IT Hardware & Software Deployments
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Interconnected Cloud, DR (Disaster Recovery), Security, End-User, Server/ Storage Solutions
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In-sourcing/Outsourcing IT Managed Services
IT consulting Services
Information Technology (IT) Leadership Consulting
Types of Deliverables
(not a comprehensive listing of all service offerings)
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Global IT Division Leadership & Infrastructure Leadership
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Enterprise Technology Transformations & Modernization Initiatives
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Network Hardware Implementations & Day One Support Leadership
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Outsourcing or Insourcing of IT and Data Center Services Oversight and Leadership
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Hybrid or vendor-specific Infrastructure Transformation Deployment Strategies
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Oversight of Complex Tech Initiatives, IT Analysis Services, Infrastructure System Designs, Data Center Construction, & Network Upgrades
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Infrastructure Delivery of OnPrem Physical/Virtualized/Cloud IT Solutions, Services, and Platforms
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Feasibility studies for global hardware, software, & vendor-led infrastructure solutions, virtualization assessments, application migrations, Data Center Relocations/Co-Locations, Legacy IT Integrations, etc.
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Quantitative data captures for IT Capital Investment Funding Justification Studies (TCO, ROI, PI, NPV, P/L, CapEx, OpEx, etc.), Reports, and Executive Presentations
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IT Vendor Solicitation (RFI, RFQ, RFP) Composition, SOW Closure, and Championing the solution through the Procurement Process
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Facilitation of IT Vendor Vetting, Selection, Award, & Vendor/Supplier Onboarding
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IT Vendor Program SOW Kick-Off, Vendor Management, and Vendor Performance Evaluations
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IT Financial Forecasts & PMO Resource Alignment Estimations
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IT Architectural Design Matriculation into PMO Delivery Frameworks
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IT Program Planning, Stand-Up, & Integration with PMO Governance
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IT, PMO, & Program Quality Assurance Best Practices
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IT Business Pre- & Post-Deployment Transition Strategies
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Centralized Management of IT & PMO Procedural Overlap, including Conflict, Risk, Issue, Quality, Change, Problem, Crisis, Finance, Service, etc.
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Full-Life Cycle IT Program Delivery: Ideation, Creation, Launch through Solution Realization, Close-out, Archival, and Post-Mortem Evaluations
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IT HLD – High-Level Designs --> Order of Magnitude Estimations, WBS-Work Breakdown Structures, and SME-Subject-Matter Expert Staffing Requirements
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LLD – Low-Level Designs --> Phasal Delivery Projects
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Interviewing, Onboarding, & Oversight of Technical Project Managers
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IT Liaison between IT Executives, Engineers, & Architects and the PMO
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IT and PMO Joint Executive Steering Committee Creation & Participation
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Stage Gate or Approval Petition Quantitative Reporting and Oral Defense to Security, Financial, Technical, and PMO committees, Advisory Boards, or Board of Directors
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IT Strategic 3-5 Year Roadmap Development, Proposals, & Qualitative and Quantitative analysis for C-level & V-level Executives, Boards of Directors, and Governing/Sponsoring Stakeholders
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IT Policy Creation & Socialization of new policies to address known Risks and unknown risk mitigation within IT team daily tasks, workflow, and documentation of IT changes
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Performance Evaluations of Problematic In-flight IT Implementations, “Get Well” Deployment Plan Restructuring and Reconciliation Strategies, & Oversight of Resolution Activities
- Authoring of Technical PMO Artifacts: Executive Summaries, Program Charters, Gate Approval Requests, Architecture Assessments, SOWs, Cost Center Financial Analysis, Portfolio Investment Justification documents, etc.
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Championing Change, Evolution of Technology Integration into Work Practices, Creating Collaborative Business Climates, and Providing Centralized Accountability during IT Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, and Transitions, Adoptions, or Decommissioning Legacy IT Platforms
“The key enablers include recognizing the linkages between programs and strategy, and supporting program leadership in enabling alignment and collaboration within the program team (Rebentisch, p. 14)”
Hire Q&D Technology IT PMO Leadership Professionals
​Q & D Technology is a Full-Service, Niche, Boutique IT PMO Consulting Services firm, offering hands-on, structured Planning, Stand-Up, Oversight, and Quality Management for your Enterprise IT Infrastructure endeavors to undergird your PMO, setting your organizational goals on a solid foundation with Strategic, Collaborative, Multidimensional Technical PMO rigor.