Case Associates

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CASE Associates Incorporated (CAI) has provided project management and quality assurance services to the states of Washington and Oregon for over nineteen years. Our senior consultants have as much as 20 years of project management experience in both the public and private sector. Regardless of our role in a project, we view ourselves as a resource for the core project team, with the objective of complementing the skills of the various team members. CAI normally uses Microsoft Project as the principal tool for scheduling and tracking projects, but we are experienced with other comparable tools, as well as the entire Microsoft Office Suite. We develop project plans and budgets from the bottom up, relying on the team members for initial estimates and for ongoing updates to the estimates. Whenever possible, we develop "resource driven" plans that more accurately reflect the critical path and facilitate the tracking of variances. It has been our experience that plans must be living documents and, for that reason, we normally maintain the plan at a detail level no more than 90 days in the future. An important part of our project management methodology is the development of critical success factors and the regular reports that include the status of each of the factors. Generally, we produce monthly reports that include progress during the period, plans for the next period, and issues that have arisen or changed since the last report. We also believe in frequent and regular feedback as issues are encountered. We often find that problems that are identified can be resolved via face to face communications long before they must be formalized in a report. As organizations evolve over the life of a project, especially a multi-year project, it is important to ensure that communications continue to flow properly to all of the project stakeholders. As one of the largest information system project management and quality assurance contractors serving the States of Oregon and Washington, CAI has intimate knowledge of government business processes, standards, networks, and inter-agency information sharing and access requirements. Our consultants have collectively managed several hundred projects ranging in value from $20,000 to more than $15,000,000. Project Management Approach and Methodology CAI consultants help clients prepare or review/critique their Project Management Plan. We use the principles documented in the Project Management Institutes' "Project Management Body of Knowledge." This plan is the baseline from which all project activities are organized, assigned resources, managed, and reviewed. CAI’s Project Management approach meets project objectives by providing timely, thorough deliverables and by promoting effective communications among all project stakeholders. CAI applies the principles of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) assessments and the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (CoBiT) standards to conduct project planning, quality assurance, and risk management programs. CAI is also familiar with and applies the guidelines documented in the Project Management Institute's Book of Knowledge.

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