Maxica Consulting Limited

PMO as a Service (PMOaaS)

PMO as a Service (PMOaaS) is a flexible service for delivering Portfolio, Programme or Project Management Office capabilities. It is comprised of configurable micro-activities including PPM Tools & Dashboards to give you the perfect PMO fit for your needs. The service is predominantly virtualised, but a hybrid option is available.

Features

• Flexible, cost-effective on-demand PMO solution
• Service units-based rate card to ensure cost transparency
• PMO maturity accelerators reduce time to value for your organisation.
• Fully configurable service to align with maturity and budget targets
• Rapid turn-on, turn-down, turn-off reduces costs
• Fully virtualised, on-site or hybrid delivery modes available
• Dynamic Dashboards ensures mission critical investments get delivered.
• Uses highly skilled permanent staff, who can operate effectively remotely.
• Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies supported.
• Service performance reviews and client KPI reporting included.

Benefits

• Highly competitive pricing based on flexible unit model.
• PMO maturity accelerators reduce time to value for your organisation.
• Reduces business risks and costs via rapid ramp up/down
• Adds strategic value through implementation of effective governance.
• Shortens the time to transition between PMO maturity levels
• Faster resourcing, saves time and removes the hassle of hiring.
• Regular service performance reviews ensures continuous value delivery
• Strategic prioritisation dashboard ensures organisations can maximise portfolio value
• Resource planning enables optimisation of resources
• Capacity planning improves delivery capability by smoothing peaks and troughs

£350 to £2,500 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  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 Derron.Taplin@maxica.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

764236518620918

Contact

Derron Taplin
07824 303 999
Derron.Taplin@maxica.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: The goal of the PMOaaS offering is to help companies improve the communication, control, execution, and ultimately; the profitability of their projects by establishing a project portfolio framework that enables better decision-making. The service provides a range of relevant planning disciplines and capabilities, including Business Analysis, project planning and estimation, resource planning and delivery assurance among others. These disciplines are delivered within an overarching governance framework, which will be aligned to the maturity levels and targets of the client organisation. This will ensure a structured approach to planning / implementation underpinned by the right-fit governance structures.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: Via the training micro service, we can provide detailed and specific training to your staff: Bespoke Training - Project Methodology, Directing a Project for Executives, Risk Management, PPM Tool utilisation, Strategic Alignment, Portfolio Prioritisation, Benefit Estimation, Resource Management, Planning and Realisation. These can be provided remotely or on site as required. We focus our training on topics relevant for your organisation with special emphasis on skills that successful project and portfolios need but are not provided by classic Agile or PRINCE2 courses.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: We help clients migrate to cloud services by supporting or providing their PMO and project delivery capabilities. Capabilities such as Business case development provided within the PMOaaS can assist with product selection, based on the gathered requirements. The planning and delivery capabilities will help in the development of an appropriate migration strategy and plan, as well as a feature take on and release approach. These will balance the value to risk as well as the readiness of the organisation to utilise the appropriate features.
• 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: PMOaaS provides capability to review the business, functional, technical and non-functional requirements in full. From this understanding, we will write an approach for all aspects of test and quality assurance required, including unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, performance testing and penetration testing as necessary. All our processes and test regimes conform to best practice.; The Project Delivery Assurance micro service ensures that projects are following best practice for successful change management and adhering to internal policies / procedures whilst identifying key elements that indicate if the project is 'at risk', requiring corrective action. We generate an assurance report, detailing the findings, including tangible follow-on actions required to ensure compliance.

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: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported:
  • Buyer hosting or software
  • Hosting or software provided by your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: Maxica Consulting tools such as Strategic Prioritisation, Portfolio and BI dashboards, Resource Planning, Capacity Planning and others. ; ; - Continuous training and knowledge updates covering best practice, processes and procedures to manage staff churn and knowledge retention. ; ; - We can also support PPM / PMO related Software provided by your organisation such as PPM tools.

Service scope

• Service constraints: We currently cover the whole of the UK via our Project Management as a Service (PMOaaS) model.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Target and actual Service Level Agreements (SLA's) will be defined at the initiation of our work with your organisation.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: Target and actual Service Level Agreements (SLA's) will be defined at the initiation of our work with your organisation.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: None

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: No
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Equal opportunity

  Equal opportunity

  Maxica Consulting Limited is fully committed to providing equality in the workplace and all opportunities for, and during employment, will be afforded to individuals fairly and irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation. We aim to create a working environment that is free from discrimination and harassment in any form, in which all staff, are treated with dignity and respect.; ; There are a number of ways in which Maxica Consulting Limited aims to ensure equal opportunities in the workplace, including:; ; * Recruitment and selection:; ; Recruitment and selection procedures will be free from bias or discrimination. Recruitment procedures will be conducted objectively and will be based upon specific and reasonable job-related criteria. Decisions regarding an individual’s suitability for a particular role will be based on aptitude and ability. We will consider making appropriate reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure that disabled applicants are not substantially disadvantaged.; ; * Career development and training:; ; All staff will be given an appropriate induction to enable them to fulfil the responsibilities of their role. All employees will be encouraged to develop their full potential and we will not unreasonably deny an employee access to training or other career development opportunities. These will be identified as part of an ongoing performance management process and will be determined objectively, taking into account the needs of the business and available resources. Selection for promotion will be based on objective criteria and decisions will be made on the basis of merit.

Pricing

• Price: £350 to £2,500 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  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 Derron.Taplin@maxica.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.