At Countdown, our project managers guide our clients through all phases of the information technology projects, be it in designing a data centre, deploying enterprise-wide network, refreshing your technology infrastructure, developing a custom enterprise application, implementing a business intelligence strategy, or evaluating and selecting a software package. We leverage our own flexible standard processes to provide tailored, clientspecific processes that are mapped to the business objectives and IT needs of the project.

Countdown Project and Program Management Services are based on international project management best practices such as PMI-PMP, Prince 2 and ITIL.

We assist our customers to align their project management practices with the best practices. We provide project and program management services based on different models to meet customer needs and requirements. Some of the main models are:

• Providing senior project managers to work as part of the customers’ project teams and lead the project
• Setting up of a Project Management Office to establish best practices and processes (based on PMIPMP/ PRINCE2, CMM) and providing mentoring support for your team
• Managing your major projects and programs as a service, i.e., supplying a project executive and a core team of managers and architects to draw up the blueprint for your project/program and then deliver it on your behalf
• Providing complete teams to implement the project in whole or parts such as defining requirements, constructing RFP, evaluating offers, etc
  
  

In a nutshell, we bring together the commercial best practices of professional services companies, and the program and project management disciplines derived from successfully managing programs with budgets of over $50 million.

We also provide interim management for companies that have a need for interim management.

The majority of our senior associates are themselves experienced interim managers and have extensive experience of recruitment processes of management resources. They all possess the required skill set of standard line management and project management. Given their consulting background, they are able to quickly adjust to a new company to deliver value in a fixed timeframe and are capable of making a quick impact on your organisation.