Program Management comes in many varieties. SapperOne brings expertise in the following areas:

Program Management
Program management is ingrained in every organization’s day-to-day operations. But even leading corporations occasionally find themselves saddled with poor performing projects or programs. This occurs for a variety of factors – you have a day job to perform in addition to the program you are managing, inadequate stakeholder alignment, poor planning, lack of resources, lack of accountability and so on.

SapperOne is known to bring focus and energy to programs while leading them to successful completion. Our program managers are experienced and immediately roll up their sleeves and get down to work with you planning and executing program activities. We are experienced, professional project leaders with a ‘can-do’ attitude.

Enterprise Applications and Business Program Management
What does it take to successfully deploy an enterprise-wide program – business or technology driven? Of the countless things that could go wrong, you want to make sure that your choice of a program manager is not one of them. SapperOne has successfully deployed multiple enterprise-wide programs and projects, both on the business and the technology front, where our program managers’ experience usually is the cornerstone of every program.

SapperOne has worked across numerous facets of enterprise programs and projects. Some of them are: Strategic planning, software selection, business program rollout, project planning, full lifecycle implementations, upgrades, post production support, and custom development.

Project Management Office (PMO)
Do your enterprise programs have adequate governance? Do you ensure they are aligned with corporate objectives or does the squeaky wheel get the grease? Our experience has shown us that to successfully move the PMO theory from concept to practice is a very hard challenge. There are numerous work streams that have to be synchronized, executives aligned behind a PMO vision, standards developed and deployed, and finally managing the successful completion of programs.

SapperOne’s PMO toolkit can bring leading practices to bear in your organization and jump start any PMO initiative you may be launching or running. We have helped setup PMOs, developed and executed PMO processes and methodologies. We also provide the required resource management skills to get the PMO operational and off the ground while working to ramp up the skills of your team in parallel.

Project Portfolio Management (PPM)
Projects that are tied to an investment portfolio and to organization priorities have a better chance to add value to an organization than groups of projects being run individually by different groups. PPM is one such mechanism to apply a set of values, standardization processes, results measurement, and process improvement principles across projects.

SapperOne uses its PPM methodology to help clients implement these principles and gain efficiencies, better visibility into their projects portfolio and understand where resources are contributing to the bottom line. We use detail benchmarks of what software companies in the PPM space offer, how to select PPM software and principles and project planning to successfully implement PPM packages and principles across your organization.

Change Management
The people dimension of transformation and program management is often a critical area that is not given enough thought to. We usually assume that leaders will be able to successfully lead and that staff will adopt new processes and technologies rolled out to them. After all, we work in a knowledge-driven society, so this area is critical to the adoption of any new change you may be considering.

SapperOne has delivered many change management projects to help improve key components of change management, including leadership development, process and technology adoption, learning and development, knowledge management, and communications.