Project management

An experienced project manager steers around typical pitfalls in a project and avoids unnecessary complications. With our extensive hands-on experience in managing different projects, we can ensure that your project will complete as agreed and as expected.

Experienced project managers

It is crucial that both competencies and experience match the complexity of the project. Project managers must have the toolbox in place and at the same time always ensure that the project can adapt to reality without introducing new risks or losing focus. Sounds simple, but reality is often more complicated.

Our approach

Project consulting

It can be difficult to ensure that a project is set up properly and with a framework that ensures everyone involved is pulling in the same direction throughout the life of the project – the direction you as the Project Owner has outlined and expect to be followed – right from the early business case to the final submission of a flawless project.

There are often multiple conflicting interests that need addressing, and success depends on a clear, transparent, and concrete framework for the project, which you can rightly expect your Client Consultant to provide and secure.

We know most of the pitfalls and with our hands-on experience in managing and controlling engineers, suppliers and contractors, we can ensure that your project is completed as agreed and executed in a way that everyone gets success – with the highest priority for you as Project Owner.

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Stay ahead of your project’s development

Project review

An external project review can be beneficial for the company by minimizing the risk of unforeseen challenges during project execution and ensuring that projects will stay on track. A set of concrete recommendations and proposed mitigations are often part of a review’s outcome. It is not costly and will always increase the certainty for a successful project.

Typically, three things trigger a project review:

    • Entering into a new project phase.
    • If an ongoing project gets into trouble and want to understand the best way forward, mitigations as well as the attached consequences.
    • Project owners are getting anxious about the project status and potential risk and challenges ahead.

    Identification and understanding the unaddressed things that can jeopardize the outcome of the project are important for all scenarios mentioned above – and thereby increasing the likelihood of a successful project.

    We have broad experience with project review and know the typical struggles and challenges a project can face. A review of your project will conclude if scope, budget, schedule, procurement plan and execution plan are mature enough for the proposed or ongoing execution phase. Sometimes reviews also include a deep dive into a specific area of a project – e.g. resource planning/management, contracting, safety or quality concept.

    Usual outcome of a review:

    • Verification, observations and recommendation of scope, budget and schedule.
    • Evaluation of risk matrix and recommended mitigations.
    • Recommendations for optimizations and areas that require extra attentions.

    The deliverable is a summary with a PowerPoint presentation, a detailed report and, if required, a walk-through meeting with the opportunity to discuss the findings as well as what can be done.

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    Project management in practice

    Our project tools

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    Alba Budgeting & financial performance

    The overall project budget is accumulated in B & FP, and is hence the approved baseline including planned cash flow throughout the project timeline. Contact us for an example of a Summary sheet with baseline, planned and actual spending for each budget group.

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    Alba Resource Management

    Our resource planning tool consists of three layers: 1) Cockpit: Cost and hours, high level, 2) Budget and spending: Accumulated data for both consultants and in-house resources, 3) Controlling: Detailed data with cockpit – relevant for larger projects

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    Alba Risk Management

    Project risk management is the process of identifying, analyzing and then responding to any risk that arises throughout the project. Risk management is not reactive only; it is an integrated planning process developed to identify risk that might happen in the project and how to control that risk if it materializes. 

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    Alba Contract Management

    Contract management is a complex discipline that demands both profound commercial knowledge, negotiation skills, and the ability to understand the important details related to handling a contract deliverable in a way that does not jeopardize the project.

    The contract planning tool consists of three layers:

    • Cockpit: Planned and actual performance – no manual input required
    • Budget and spending: Accumulated data
    • Controlling: Detailed data / follow up for each contract
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    KPI / Milestone and info board

    It is a balance to find the right level of information, status materials, meetings, and reporting. It is beneficial for the project to have a good and well prepared way of sharing information as well as ensuring data is updated frequently. Correct data must be provided in a useful format, allowing the project teams to understand the status, challenges ahead, and problems that must be dealt with before they impact the project. Information channels must be well defined – also when it comes to interaction with the management team and stakeholders.

    “It is crucial that both competencies and experience match the complexity of the project. Project managers must have the toolbox in place and at the same time always ensure that the project can adapt to reality without introducing new risks or losing focus. Sounds simple, but reality is often more complicated.

    An experienced project manager can stir out of typical pitfalls in a project and thus avoid unnecessary complications. With our extensive hands-on experience in managing different projects, we can ensure that your project will complete as agreed and as expected.”

    – Per Poulsen, Managing Partner & Project Director