CMS Intro Brochure Feb 2016

The Project Control ProfessionalsThe Project Control ProfessionalsThe Project Control Professionals

Guiding project health through “BEST IN CLASS” Integrated Project Control services!

Our long proven approach provides you with early warnings to potential problems and an accurate assessment of your project’s forecasted final costs.

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Project Control Services CMS Inc. staffs and recruits the best Project Controls people the world has to offer. By partnering

with CMS Inc. for your Project Control needs, qualified staff and resources are at your disposal to

ensure the strict adherence to “Best in Class” Project Control practices.

Project Estimating

Without an accurate estimate to use as a “baseline”, a project is doomed to failure. CMS Inc. can provide the initial estimate or an unbiased second look by a 3rd party. CMS Inc.’s multi-discipline, field experienced estimators provide a consistent and predictable cost estimate to serve as an accurate baseline regardless of your project’s scope.

When we compare CMS Inc.’s estimates to other estimates for projects at the same site, CMS Inc.’s estimates have a higher degree of confidence.

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“Accurate , Multi-Discipline, and Field Experienced ”

Planning & Scheduling

CMS Inc.’s Planning and Scheduling professionals use the latest tools available to plan and schedule your project according to the planned implementation. Each scheduled activity has a budget, which is tied directly to the schedule. Each project schedule is then linked through our scheduling software. From small projects, to multi-billion dollar mega projects or a complete project portfolio, CMS Inc. can assist with all your planning and scheduling needs.

Proper Scheduling Strategies Should Show:

All Work Has Been Scheduled

Critical Paths Have Been Correctly Identified.

The Plan Can Be Accomplished

The Plan Can Be Measured

Schedule Slippage Is Easily Recognized

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Cost Control

CMS Inc.'s Experienced Cost Control Professionals break your project into budgetary work packages based on the original estimate. This integration of cost and schedule measurements ensures a complete evaluation to forecast final results against the project baseline.

Actual project costs are tracked against the budget, and performance trends are recorded. Physical completion data is measured against these trends, ensuring that the current forecasts are always accurate.

Progress Reporting &

Analysis

All projects deviate from the plan, and all schedules change. If your project team is unaware of these changes, they will be a in a constant “reactive” state. The key to exceptional project management is to mitigate the effect of changes by maintaining perspective on the “big picture”.

CMS’s Inc.’s Progress Reporting and Analysis arms your project managers with everything they need to successfully manage your project.

Change Management & Claims

Changes to the original scope and budget of your project follow strict approval processes, ensuring

that both the owner and contractor are documenting and tracking “extras” that were not included in

the original scope. For changes to the budget caused by poor performance, change notices are

issued as “Trends”. This process ensures complete transparency between scope addition and

performance issues.

“A Consistent Measure of Cost Performance!”

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Where should you be? What will it take to finish?

“Early Identification of Cost Trends!”

Where are you now? How did you get here?

Project Health Assessment Services For over 30 years CMS Inc. has been assisting our clients to achieve Healthy Project Status through

our “Best in Class” project control services. From initial engineering, execution phase assessments

and post project forensic analysis, CMS Inc. has the knowledge, experience, and skill to guarantee

the best possible performance/outcome every time.

Key Indicators

last minute Cost overruns?

Separation between Planned and Actual?

Do you have an at risk project?

“Less Than 6% of Projects Deliver Planned Financial Returns”

EPCM/Contractor Needs

With the increasing costs associated with capital projects, contractors need to come in “on time” and “on budget” to ensure new, and repeat business.

Both EPCMs and Contractors need to show their clients that they are not just selling hours, but reliability.

Owner Needs

Owners need to be able to identify cost overruns early enough to impact outcome, as well as determine the root cause of these overruns. Determining the difference between an increase caused by poor performance or estimation error (Trend), and a change to the original scope can be difficult. With a third party professional Project Control group in the middle guiding both parties, there is never any question as to the cause, and there is always time to improve.


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Recovery Planning

In project implementation terms, being behind schedule, over budget, under resourced, or having poor quality deliverables can all be considered “project failures”. So how do you recover from an imminent project failure?

Being able to salvage a failed project is where CMS Inc. shines. CMS Inc. will assists you in prioritising your project recovery planning and activities so that you identify and tackle the most serious problems first, and work your way down the list accordingly until you’re back on track.


Progress and Performance Assessment

Failure to meet time and budget goals can pose a significant threat to the future of any organization. That is why conducting project audits during the execution phase of your project will ensure that your project is healthy and on track.

Aside from the immediate benefits, conducting Project Audits during key phases will assist in identifying what has gone well, and what needs improvement. This forensic analysis helps build your organisations “success criteria” for future projects, and ensures mistakes are not repeated by supplying “Lessons Learned” reporting.

Independent Project Audit/Review

Projects only get one chance to start off right. An independent review or audit of your project prior to the execution phase adds a unique perspective that can be the key component to your projects success.

Having an unbiased third party review your estimate or/and plan prior to commencing construction can sometimes shed light on “big misses” that could be detrimental to the future of your organization.

Benchmarking

Results

CMS Inc.’s processes have been proven “Best in Class” by multiple 3rd party assessments. CMS Inc.’s impact on our client’s Project Control Index through both leadership, and technical services is clearly shown by the attached graph.

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Management Training Programs CMS Inc. offers a wide range of courses focused on the standard constraints faced in Project Management and the “best practices” needed for success. CMS also offers training on the tools and techniques required to effectively manage both individual projects and a complete project portfolio.

Project Management Training

CMS Inc. has developed comprehensive, introductory and advanced courses that offer a solid understanding of project management techniques.

During these courses you will gain practical experience in proven project management methods, and be introduced to a wide range of flexible tools that can be implemented immediately within your organization. These courses were specifically designed to be relevant to “everyday work environments” through the introduction of case studies and discussions that shows the practical use of the concepts within.

Project Planning and Scheduling

Training

Having the correct scheduling tools is one thing, but arming your planners with “Best in Class” project scheduling practices enables your planners to accurately establish costs, and calculate resource requirements.

Through our hands-on tutorials, CMS Inc. will guide your staff through every aspect of the project and project portfolio scheduling process; from software implementation, to deployment and even the introduction to time tested project scheduling “best practices for success”.

Fully Considered, Focused, Resilient, and Practical


Establish Time Tested Processes and Set achievable Goals.

Project Cost Engineering

Based on AACE International’s “Skills & Knowledge of Cost Engineering 5th Edition” and CMS Inc.’s actual Cost Engineering experience, we have developed a complete cost engineering course covering cost estimating, cost control, cost management and other cost engineering subjects.

This course uses practical real life scenarios to illustrate the Cost Engineering concepts within, and teaches your staff “Best in Class” practices that CMS Inc. has been utilising used for over 30 years.

Management and Soft skills Training

Our Everything DiSC® tools are designed to help you understand yourself AND other people too. Our solutions help you build more effective working relationships based on an understanding of different behavioral styles.

Everything DiSC® Management is classroom training that uses online pre-work, engaging facilitation with contemporary video, and online follow-up to create a personalized learning experience.

Participants learn how to read the styles of the people they manage. The result is managers who adapt their styles to manage more effectively.

Customised Courses In

Individual Effectiveness:

Communication

Reducing Conflict

Managing Conflict and Resistance

Using Your Strengths to Your Advantage

Building Greater Self Awareness

Team Effectiveness:

Improving Team Effec-tiveness

Improving Team Motiva-tion

Understanding and Build-ing on Your Strength as a Group

Recognizing the Impact of Your Group’s Culture

Management Effectiveness:

Maximizing Your Strengths as a Manager

Recognizing and Removing Barriers to Performance

Getting the Most from Your Key Contributors


Remote Project Control Solutions Through the use of the latest Cloud based project control software, CMS Inc. allows your facility operate with much lower project controls cost compared previous years.

By staffing only Senior Control Analysts on-site, the repetitive data entry and review tasks are saved for junior analyst operating out of our head office in Sarnia, Ontario.

“Remote Project Control Costs Are Roughly 40%

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Advantages of Remote Project Controllers

TRAVEL COSTS: Reduce travel costs associated with getting qualified workers to remote locations.

LODGING COST: Free up valuable lodging being wasted on resources whose work could easily be accomplish from offices closer to home.

PREMIUM HOURS: With few travel costs and workers closer to home, a remote solution drastically reduces the premium hours paid to control professionals

LOWER RATES: By staffing project controllers closer to home and in heaver populated areas, wages for qualified individuals are drastically reduced.


Health Check Services Project Health Checks & Recovery Clients, Project Managers, and the project team are often so involved in day-to-day activities of a

project that they fail to recognize the project’s true status. Upcoming problems can go unnoticed or

even worse be disregarded.

The purpose of the project health check is to obtain an independent assessment of how well the

project is performing in accordance with its stated objectives as well as how well it adheres to

organizational processes or standards.

The cost of fixing an issue is much higher than the cost of preventing it in the first place. The

benefits of a Project Health Check are:

Early warning identification of potential issues that may (or

have already) derailed the Project

Reducing the risk of project failure by identifying recovery

activities tailored to get the Project back on track

Conducting health checks on projects can help with the

development of future projects and programs, by identifying common problems and solutions.

Project Health Services

Team Dynamics

Project Readiness

Engineering Status

Change Management

Schedule Analysis

Progress Audits

“The cost of fixing an issue is much higher than the cost of

preventing it in the first place.”


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CMS Intro Brochure Feb 2016