Are you a good candidate for our project consulting services?

Our Project Practice serves small and mid-sized companies (typically $25 - $500 million in sales) as well as business units in larger organizations that have important IT projects that aren't going as well as they should.

If that's you, you're not alone.

The recently released Standish Report presents a pretty bleak picture all around: too many project failures, too many project restarts, too many projects delivered with cost and schedule overruns. These are the kinds of problems that keep IT managers and senior execs up at night.

We Bring A Depth of Experience to Every Project We Do. Spiral Partners' three principals have 40+ years of diverse business, leadership and management experience that includes:

	•	Knowledge Management Systems Design and Development
	•	Business and IT Systems Analysis, Design and Development
	•	Operations Management
	•	IT Management
	•	Consulting to Fortune 500 and Mid-Market companies in both Big Five and Boutique Consulting Organizations
	•	Project Management
	•	IT Systems Integration
	•	Vendor Selection and Contract Management

We've done work in a wide variety of industries including:

	• Direct Marketing		• Pharmaceuticals
	• Financial Services		• Printing
	• Insurance		• Telecommunications
	• Manufacturing		• Transportation

Our team brings specific skills to your projects to help your team succeed:

	•	Project Management Skills. Being able to juggle time constraints, resource constraints and project dependencies is a bit of an art. It's also a discipline that every project needs. We can help your project manager to create a project plan, and use the plan to manage and report on the project's status. We can also manage the project directly if that's what you require.
	•	Team Leadership Skills. There is a big difference between management and leadership. In our experience, every project needs BOTH. Your project might need support in providing practical, hands on IT team leadership. We can provide it.
	•	Communications and Presentation Skills. "What I think, what I say, what you hear, what you think I meant". Sounds simple, but it is a major reason for IT project failure. Oral and written communication skills, and the ability to present business and systems concepts clearly so that end users and IT personnel "get it" are key. We can help your team communicate better with end users, and one another.
	•	Business Process Skills. We know that ultimately, it's all about your business - the people, the processes, and the products and/or services it provides. With our broad experience across multiple industries and business functions, we can map the business processes, provide needed gap analysis, and work with end users to re-engineer the business process to align with current business needs and new systems architectures.
	•	Systems Analysis and Design Skills. We are experts at gathering complete user requirements, and translating those requirements into crisp, clear functional specifications. Whether the project calls for integrating a software package, or building the application in house, we can translate the functional requirements into a cogent, logical system design.
	•	Technical Management Skills. Regardless of the technical environment, we can provide the management your technical team needs to work efficiently and effectively so that their deliverables reflect the intent of the system design, and are delivered on time.
	•	Quality Assurance Management Skills. Every IT application needs to be thoroughly tested before it goes into production. We can help your team design and implement a comprehensive test plan that includes unit tests, systems tests and user acceptance tests.
	•	Vendor Management Skills. Some software products work exactly as advertised, have crystal clear documentation, and are backed with top-notch technical support. But in discussing the challenges of getting vendors to deliver on their promises, a recent CIO magazine article borrowed a famous line from the movie "Network": "We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore". We can help you manage your vendor.

We are entirely committed to our clients. Check out these testimonials and case studies, or ask us for references.

We're committed to ethical consulting that produces real results. If we don't think we can help you, we'll tell you, and we'll tell you why.

We stand behind our work by putting our fee on the line. Every consulting company is going to insist they do great work. We guarantee it. If you are not delighted with the work we do for you, tear up your bill.