What we do
Project Planning & Execution
Align, Adapt, Execute — and Succeed
A successful IT project demands careful coordination, wise leadership, and relentless execution. Experienced project leaders and practitioners from SDG can help IT leaders bridge gaps, adapt based on insights, connect execution to business strategy, and guide the initiative to done.
SDG excels at managing complex portfolios of IT initiatives, offering project consulting services that focus on clear communication and superior execution to drive results. And throughout, we work with tact, flexibility, and humility to build your team’s skill and collaboration.
SDG’s project planning & execution consulting services are a great fit for:
- Major increments of product development.
- Integrations of disparate platforms into a unified user experience.
- Legacy system modernization.
- Migration and retrofitting.
- Date-driven initiatives.
- Initiatives driven by legal and regulatory mandates.
- Enterprise system upgrades.
- Business system implementations, like ERP, CRM, or supply chain management.
Project expertise that sets you up for success
SDG’s project managers, analysts, customer success consultants, and execution leaders are deeply experienced in a variety of project tools and methods. But we’re not beholden to dogma and buzzwords. Instead, we take a mature, unbiased approach to methodologies and technologies, adapting our approach to fit your initiative and your organization.
Our consultants’ experience includes:
- Deep experience in agile and waterfall methods and mindsets.
- Scrum Alliance-certified Scrum Masters (CSM) and Scrum Product Owners (CSPO).
- Project Management Professional (PMP) experience and certification.
- Kanban.
- Six Sigma and Lean principles.
Examples of projects we’ve planned and executed:
- Implementing a news publishing system for a major daily newspaper.
- Integrating separate back-end systems into a unified user experience using a third-party portal platform.
- Overhauling an e-commerce system for a B2B medical device provider.
- Rebuilding a custom manufacturer’s quoting and ordering system.
Project Planning & Execution Services
Planning & Analysis
Our analysts and project leaders deftly uncover stakeholder needs, make recommendations and decisions based on insights, document at just the right level of detail, and guide an iterative delivery process. All the while, we keep you informed with clear, actionable communication.
Project Management
SDG provides hands-on project management, Scrum, and customer success expertise to foster accountability and progress, transparently communicate with stakeholders, proactively address obstacles and risks, and align work, team, and business outcomes.
Agile Coaching
We coach your team across key areas of agility: flow, governance, technical aspects, talent, and organizational dynamics. Together, we’ll establish a resilient internal capability that evolves long after SDG’s involvement concludes.
We’ve done this often; we can do this for you
At our core, we’re partners in your success—even when the environment is uncertain.
Our dedicated customer success professionals are uniquely skilled at clearing roadblocks, escalating issues, and keeping your leaders informed and aligned. And our project planning & execution consultants are deeply experienced in navigating ambiguity and responding to new information. We’ll invest time to understand your business, capacity, and long-term aspirations.
With this insight and experience, we guide you past obstacles, ensuring your strategic goals are met before transferring knowledge and setting you up for long-term success.
“I highly value the technical and process competencies of the SDG team. The SDG consultants delivered value and coached our internal teams. Their presence was seamless, supportive, and professional, from delivering code to leading teams to setting strategies. We developed oneness as a team that was rare and valuable.”
Customer story: (company confidential)
Transforming the commercial customer experience
A global telecommunications company needed to overhaul the online experience for their commercial customers. Using a collaborative, user-centered, agile approach, the project team integrated dozens of disparate systems, replaced forms and emails with self-service online transactions, added revenue-generating online cross-sell capabilities, and increased customer satisfaction and engagement while reducing costs.