Project Info Partners takes information seriously and you should too. Through a mix of technology, consulting, and onsite/offsite staffing, we work with companies and projects to tame the data nightmare beast.

Through custom technology, consulting, and staffing strategies our team identifies the key data and data processes in a project or company and wrangles the data and implements processes to control that data.

Whether it is a gigantic oil and gas project with a global team that needs to centralize documents and tie document progress back to a budget or a multi-office law firm that needs to standardize and catagorize case files to speed research and reduce the amount of time attorneys dig through folders on file servers.

Project Info Partners starts with consulting. Executive consultants come on-site for 2-3 days in the trenches with your team to assess your information management processes, personnel and responsibilities, and systems. After the initial consulting session Project Info Partners delivers formal recommendations to augment process, technology, and/or staffing to achieve the goals. At that point, clients can choose to have Project Info Partners lead the implementation of the recommendation, consult on the implementation, or you can take our work and go it alone.

Most projects can benefit from a Micro Consulting program. If executives engage with me as a project performance consultant for 1-2 hours per week, they generally find that:

• labor hours are reduced
• overtime is largely eliminated
• full-time project positions are reduced
• reports are timely, accurate, and consistent
• operability of the asset increases
• handover to the client is smoother
• information flows among team members appropriately
• client/contractor relationships improve

In the Micro Consulting program, I work with project executives to examine project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables to find inconsistencies, unrealistic plans/projections, and things that are undesirable to clients.

In each meeting we work together to identify and flag the most high-impact undesirables and make a plan to fix them. Typically, the plan is delegated to the owner of the process or deliverable who reports back at the next Micro-Consulting session.

With 40 years of experience in projects and multiple companies supporting the project industry, I know the right person for the job. Even better yet, I can find the right person for the job and get them to work for you.

Whether it is remote work or on-site work, full-time or part-time, I can find and place the right talent in your project. Unlike recruiters, temp-companies, and staffing-farms, the people placed on your project are managed by me and my management team. That means if there is a problem - it is my problem. And you better believe I'll fix it.

My companies and network can help you staff projects with top talent for the following positions:

Me and several staff members are available for intensive on-site consulting.

Recently, we deployed to rural China to consult on a chemical plant. We worked with several groups (clients, engineering, construction, and completions/commissioning) to improve the management of completions data. It was hard. Deadlines were approaching, agreement was sparse, and penalties were looming. Luckily we were able to work with some of the smartest, most dedicated project staff on the face of the planet to help instill discipline, process, and proper data management practices.

The cumulative ~3months we spent in rural china were well worth it. The key components of the project came online with little drama and handover to the client went incredibly well. The team did an excellent job - and I'm proud to have been a part of it.

I've been helping projects in similar situations for a long time. Whether your project needs a planning makeover, early jump-start, or a closing bell rally - me and my team are here to make your project a raging success.

ProjecTools is a complete project management system that larger companies or larger projects use to manage a wide range of project data (documents, budgets, contracts, procurement, suppliers, logistics, construction, and commissioning).

ProjecTools is incredibly robust and flexible to handle most types and any size of project. ProjecTools is built to integrate with the other functional areas of ProjecTools to ensure each team and each project discipline is working with the latest project data, whether it be the procurement teams having access to the latest revision or progress flowing natively into cost control according to actual project activities. Some examples of the integrations are:

Document progress flows to cost control
Documents link to equipment tags
Engienering and Technical Documents link to Requisitions, RFQs, and POs
Supplier Documents link to RFQs and POs
Drawings link to commissionging inspections
Procurement committments flow to cost control
Queries and RFIs flow to the correct team members and back to the correct authority for resolution
etc.

These data connections allow the project team to function as a unit. No matter who needs the data or where they are in the world, a project team can now function as a unit, operating out of a single system.

DocumenTools follows the philosophy that people, processes, and ideas are what drives project success. I am a firm believer that to get the most out of people, processes, and ideas project information needs to be treated like the holy grail. more than that, the systems used to mange the project information can make all of the difference.

The ability to standardize the WBS and produce bi-weekly reports has been proven to reduce cost variance by 12%.

Cost Control is a cloud-based system that helps manage budgets with clarity, precision, and accountability that will contribute to project success.

The key benefits of Cost Control are that it:

• maintains consistency throughout a project and/or organization
• Enforces a standardized WBS
• Produces high level and detailed cost reports
• Ensures reports are accurate and timely
• Produces consistent reports
• Can be configured to report in the client's preferred format

Cost control is unique in that it isn't an accounting system or spreadsheet-based. Unlike many systems used to manage cost, Cost Control was actually designed with cost control professionals in mind.

The system is also scalable in a way that other cost management systems are not. If your company has one giant project, Cost Control will work great. Similarly, if your company has hundreds or thousands of small projects, Cost Control will add the same value at an affordable price.

The right completions software dramatically improves the quality of an asset, the time-to-handover, and the bottom line. It helps completions teams convert manual processes performed by swarms of semi-skilled (not cheap) administrators to laboriously pair checklists to tags and generate inspection sheets using spreadsheets and mail merges into an automated process taking place in a cloud-based system – so the right teams can contribute and monitor progress.

The engineering and commissioning software was developed over years of working in the trenches alongside the best commissioning teams in the world on some of the largest, most complex projects. Our team understands the massive quantities of data needed to execute completions and perhaps more importantly understands the relationships among the data (Equipment TAGs, Procedures, Checksheets, Certifications, etc) and the headaches it causes when data is unorganized and incomplete. We have also experienced the good life and want to share it with the industry. We want each completions team to have the correct data, the ability to generate checksheets with a couple clicks, and log the progress to a system that is smart enough to produce the progress and forecast reports that commissioning managers need.

The Procurement management system is a direct result of our experience working side-by-side with some of the biggest, most prolific players in the procurement game. We understand that reinventing the wheel for each project (or requisition) and managing the process with emails and spreadsheets is not a good way to do business. We have also experienced the good life – one where processes are controlled, visible, and repeatable – one where suppliers can’t give the runaround – and one where data is centralized and integrated in world-class procurement solution so each team member is working from the latest data.

The Procurement System does more than improve the procurement process to deliver better quality equipment at more favorable commercial terms. Our Procurement Software (as any good procurement application should) actually makes the buyers, managers, executives, and suppliers jobs substantially easier so everybody can focus on what is truly important – delivering safely operating assets that consistently are technically and commercially successful.