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Airport Project  Management of Small Technology Projects: 

In practice, the same project discipline and management is required whether the technology project is being implemented for a small or large operation. It is the scale of the tasks and the level of effort and time required to complete various project tasks that will vary.  This simple concept however, leads project teams to often cut corners, reduce or eliminate steps and this will lead to a compromise of good execution, audit and project completion quality.  The process may also be driven by cost constraints that are in place in any small to midsize community where the operation and management of the airport and facility are part of the city budget.   Regional and general aviation airports can manage these dynamic issues by assessing the project management value of their project team and secondly, insure that project management standards in planning and implementation are not bypassed.

Like a puzzle, all pieces of the project implementation must be completed to have a well organized, documented and maintainable project whether it is technology related or an update to the facility. 

Project Management Value

With many years of expertise in the airport and airline industries, eCOMvergence provides an alternative for airport and city managers to reduce risk and cost of needed and required updates to airports for security, operations, new standards and integration with city communications and networks.

With specific industry knowledge, eCOMvergence can provide the following list of cost and efficiency key benefits to airport and city planners.

eCOMvergence PM-Z Planning Model

PMP Standards in Project Planning

Establishing project standards for project implementations, large or small is a major key to long term support.  The full benefit of project standards may indeed achieved after the project completion.  With project standards, airport clients save costs in several significant ways.  With proven methodologies such as PMP certification from the Program Management Institute (PMI), ongoing support after project completion will keep costs down.  With project standards the following goals are achieved:

These goals are even more significant when external consultants and technical resources were used to implement the project.  The knowledge and implementation are not lost when the resources are no longer on the project.

eCOMvergence adheres to project planning and implementation standards.  Coupled with the Zackman planning methodology for technology implementation, we believe we can offer our clients the highest project implementation support available for small to midsize airport operators.

Zackman Planning Approach for Technology Planning Projects

John Zackman has created a successful and repeatable planning approach that is oriented toward technology planning and implementation projects.  The Zackman approach has been implemented in both Government and Commercial projects around the world.  Our clients benefit from a model that relates to Zackman's approach and one that can be updated and reviewed through the life of a technology project.

Project  Management and Sales Bid management integration: A Business Critical Factor

eCOMvergence has a second core competency focused on assisting airport and transport system integrators in sales support and project development.  Our premise is that projects set up for failure during the sales and project definition with the airport clients.  The accurate assessment of the resources and effort required to achieve the time tables defined by a customer's request for proposal may ultimately insure that when the project is won and implemented, the levels of return on investment agreed to by the management team will be achieved.  This internal business partnership with Sales and Project Managers enables the evaluation of costs and risks based on a detailed project plan on how to achieve the customer's objective in a fixed timeframe.  The process might include the following cost and time sensitive resources:

Today, many clients are going to fixed price contracts.  Building a project plan during the proposal cycle reduces risks in reduced project profits that often get eroded by inaccurate assessment of resources required, skill sets, time to implement and lack of critical resources when the project requires them.  

eCOMvergence has the accomplished skills to lead our client teams to complete complex proposals, technology and integration plans, training and certification programs and transport industry application development.