MMCG Consultancy Services Ltd

Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management as a Service

Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management (P3M) service leading, guiding, advising, and managing the end-to end process for the customer from consideration of migration discovery, options analysis, decision-making to practical migration to hyper-scale and government hosted, cloud-based services.

Features

• Business analysis to explore best-fit cloud-based hosting and migration options
• Requirements gathering, analysis and articulation and benefits mapping
• DevSecOps support to options (vendor) analysis as proofs of concepts
• Agile and SDLC P3M tailored to ways of working
• System definition and design with appropriate architecture analysis
• Template Deployment Engine analysis and support to migration
• Deployment management and testing including IDAM and security accreditation support
• Critical customer friend supporting third-party migration and/or managing suppliers
• Optimising use of cloud services
• Effective RAIDO management to deliver to time, cost and quality

Benefits

• Strong leadership for successful delivery of challenging IT projects
• Effective cloud utilisation maximising value
• Iterative delivery of value providing increased, early realisation of benefits
• Customer value appreciation for synergistic benefit delivery
• Improved ways of working leading to smarter outcomes
• Reduced risk exposure through dynamic risk management
• Effective communications to improve change success
• Impartial, independent and innovative delivery resulting in increased cost savings
• Strategic alignment and coherence across the portfolio reducing waste
• Benefits realisation mapping and transition and implementation planning

£540 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at consulting@mmcgconsulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

617774754291996

Contact

Malcolm McGeoch
07866499959
consulting@mmcgconsulting.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: We enable, create insights and commit to outcomes; Enablement: We engage with stakeholders and workstream managers to ensure alignment of the Scope of Work with portfolio, programme and project objectives; identify milestones for agreed outputs and outcomes and track progress through regular quality reviews. Insight: Our dashboards and reporting tools provide up-to-date visibility on the status of each project within the programme across the portfolio, providing clear business intelligence to permit effective decision-making and focused action. Commitment: We bring people with the right skills and experience to be part of your extended team. ; ; We adopt a cloud where appropriate approach, analysing business wants and tempering against business needs to determine the best implementation approach. This is phased approach. Enablement through discovery to engage stakeholders and assess requirements. This leads into insights as a specification phase which aligns problems to solution options for implementation, drawing on experience of previous implementations, successes, good practice and where cloud services have not been appropriate to ensure alignment with the business strategy and growth plans of the organisation. Being vendor agnostic, we can then commit to the implementation best suited to the organisation needs and provide delivery leadership and support to implement the chosen option.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: How the setup or migration service works ; ; Most hyper-scale cloud providers provide templated approaches to ease transition to cloud-based hosting. We will assist in planning and executing the approach and managing the transition to ensure seamless service delivery. For software Services we will adapt our tried and tested methodologies to meet the customer needs. As an example, planning will be done in a cooperative, collaborative manner to tailor service offerings to meet business needs, capturing and eliciting requirements and user stories, defining benefits hypothesis and supporting business case development through effective business analysis. We can do this through interviews, facilitated workshops both face-to-face and online, applying design thinking and customer centric analysis methods to understand pains and gains. This is important to ensure that both functional and non-functional aspects of a service offer are considered and to consider elements which may be key cost drivers to ensure any service transition is financially managed from the outset. Schedules can be presented using MS project in Gantt form, as milestone plans or tailored to suite needs, with problems managed in Jira/ Confluence and GitHub. We have our own, in-house financial accounting software and are versed in the MS Office suite of applications.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: Execute migration: We provide an overall quality management system and review body to oversee the execution of client’s personnel and Cloud Providers architects, service and transition managers. Our allocated Client Partner will resource the Portfolio Management Office team and; Onboard Portfolio Owners for each sub-team (work-packages), Onboard a governance champion and a process optimization champion, Mobilise SmartTasking.com resourcing specialist. • Train the team as required to specifics. • Conduct project kick-off meeting with the Client. • Leverage existing organizational enablers, enterprise environmental factors, and organisational process assets. • Remove non-value-added steps. • Integrate quality projects into the Management Office. • Align to business strategy and look for opportunities to streamline and improve your practices. • Confirm methodology does not constrain the selection of the best tool/approach for the business need. • Influence the selection of enterprise environmental factors for the organisation. • Provide regular feedback to the team engaged, sharing a dashboard, lessons learned and client’s feedback.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
  • Security incident management
  • Security audit services
• Certified security testers: Yes
• Security testing certifications: Cyber Scheme

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: No constraints.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: Within 2 hours Mon - Friday and within 8 hours on weekends.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Yes, at an extra cost
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Web chat accessibility testing: There has been no requirement to date to conduct web chat testing with assistive technology users. We have done testing by phone to describe content for visually impaired users.
• Support levels: Most of the services we offer may benefit from ad-hoc support and advice, which would be agreed in conjunction with any statement of works. These would be costed either as a Call Off services or in the form of independent items charged on a pay as you go service. Our preference is always to deliver maximum value to our clients, therefore, Call Off services in the first instance.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: ISO27001: ISMS Module on MSc IMT

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Equal opportunity

  Covid-19 recovery

  We supported the build of the JBC and led the wastewater analysis programme to reduce lockdowns and support return to prosperity.

  Equal opportunity

  Our diverse workforce includes apprentices and graduates in first time employment. we also recruit from and have successfully transitioned to full-time employment the GoodWork programme, an inclusive entry-level hiring programme for marginalised young people. https://www.goodwork.org.uk/

Pricing

• Price: £540 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at consulting@mmcgconsulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.