Our Processes

Project Management

Every organization today achieves results through projects. These projects come in all sizes, varieties, and complexities. And while each project may be vastly different, project teams need a shared process to produce the desired project results.

Kepner-Tregoe Project Management is an integrated, cohesive process that project managers can adapt and apply to any type of project, large or small. This comprehensive, step-by-step process draws on our best practices research and acclaimed approaches to problem solving, decision making, and human performance. It is used in organizations worldwide to ensure that projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with the desired results. KT Project Management links with the Project Management Institute Project Management Body of Knowledge, and provides a question-based rationale that makes it easier to learn and apply project know-how.

Armed with our powerful project management process, project managers and team members can better define and plan projects while nimbly anticipating and responding to issues during implementation. KT Project Management helps teams tap into the know-how of individuals, develop consensus, gain commitment, and resolve conflicts. Everyone is on the same wavelength, using a common approach and language.

KT Project Management is actually four distinct processes, each designed to address a specific aspect of project management while combining to form a comprehensive and effective methodology.

Definition is used to appraise the need for the project and clarify timing, cost, and performance parameters. It also identifies specific results and the value that the project should produce, balanced against the appropriate level of available resources.

Planning is used to determine who will do what and when. Planning combines the technical sequencing and scheduling of deliverables and resources with the people-oriented tasks such as gathering the right people for project work and gaining their commitment to project success. It also includes managing project risk by using the KT Potential Problem Analysis process.

Implementation addresses the controlled and effective use of resources to achieve project results. It includes overcoming the common pitfalls that befall many projects and monitoring and responding to project issues. It includes efforts to ensure that project goals are achieved and to leverage new opportunities.

Project Management Communication is woven throughout definition, planning, and implementation. It includes distinct leadership skills for managing human performance and addressing stakeholder involvement and satisfaction.

Project Management Results

Kepner-Tregoe Project Management helps organizations realize their goals by improving the way work gets done.

• When a bio-services firm used KT Project Management to focus on the most critical projects and issues, its on-schedule projects increased from 56.4% to 90%.
• A major defense contractor used KT Project Management to implement a new way of working with NASA and realized significant improvements in cost savings, attrition, safety, incentive fees, ISO ratings, and more.
• A chemical manufacturer, having trouble implementing continuous improvement projects, used KT Project Management to bring implementation to the operator level. Project goals were met and productivity jumped 20%.
• Using KT Project Management, a computer manufacturer successfully consolidated 650 employees into a single facility in a single weekend. Now team members are called on regularly to share best practices with colleagues worldwide.
• Using KT Project Management, a television tube manufacturer successfully reduced its annual production shutdown from three weeks to two and completed 111 capital and maintenance projects during that period.