Safety, Quality, Cost, and Schedule – Safety and quality are given while cost and schedule predictability represent the two greatest challenges for any project. Dennis helps teams address these head on at every stage of the project.

Dennis provides invaluable foresight, lessons learned, primary reasons for project failure, procedures for predictable performance, and checkpoints to prevent mistakes. 

Dennis believes strongly that haste in any project not only makes waste, but can quickly derail an especially large project. He offers pre-project guidance and project planning for best possible outcome with lowest possible risk of failure. He also always starts the project with solid cost and schedule fundamentals.

• Define project scope
• Take time for thorough scope definition and detailed planning
• Demand solid team communication and engagement
• Develop a viable execution plan
• Develop a realistic schedule
• Recognize these components are essential to obtaining a valid cost estimate

• Developing valid, realistic schedules allows for effective management rather than just reporting progress. Committing to overly optimistic schedules is one of the primary causes of project failure.

Timely and accurate cost information can and must be available for the project decision makers at all times. This is the only way for a project to truly succeed.

Dennis believes strongly that Objectivity and Earned Value Management are essential as they deliver honest, unbiased analysis of cost as the project progresses. Committing to overly optimistic budgets is one of the primary causes of project failure.

Encompassing estimating, budgeting, cost management, planning and scheduling and risk assessment, effective project controls are an essential component of successful project management.

• Cheaper, better, faster is a myth.
• The sooner we get started the sooner we get finished is only true when you get started with a viable plan in place.
• Cost and schedule predictability is possible only when you start with realistic expectations.
• Projects that start off poorly always end poorly.
• Time spent in proper preparation is time well spent.