CAPDA Consulting’s project managers are leaders in ensuring your projects are delivered on time, on budget, and within scope. Our project managers are experienced and qualified in a range of project management disciplines, including:

• Traditional approaches to project management

• PRINCE2 and PMBOK methodologies

• Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)

• Lean project management with a Six Sigma focus

• Agile project management, such as Scrum

They will work with you to identify and manage challenges to the delivery of your project goals and address these early and proactively. Our project managers will also seek to optimise resource allocation and integrate resources to meet predefined objectives.

CAPDA Consulting’s specialists can assist you in delivering your business transformation through industry best-practice programme management techniques. Our programme managers can take responsibility for:

• Oversight of the purpose and status of all projects within a programme to ensure the right projects are identified

• Supporting project-level activity to ensure the overall programme goals are met.

• Identifying and managing cross-project dependencies to gain insight into the risks, issues, requirements, designs, or solutions.

CAPDA Consulting will help you design, implement, and shape your change journey while helping you plan, manage, and realise the intended benefits of change. Our approach to change and benefits management is people-focused, with stakeholder engagement and communication as major components. Our overall approach includes:

• Articulating the need for change and a sense of urgency

• Establishing the guiding team and governance structures

• Developing the vision and strategy for change

• Communicating and achieving buy-in from a critical mass

• Empowering people to act, as not all change can be foreseen with a top-down approach

• Recognising and commending wins

• Sustaining the momentum after initial wins

• Embedding and settling the new culture

CAPDA Consulting can support your organisation in the centralised coordination and management of processes, methods, and technologies used by projects and programmes throughout your organisation. Our approach ensures consistent and coherent alignment and prioritisation of your portfolio of change to manage, mitigate, and reduce the risk of change.

CAPDA Consulting can deliver a complete PMO solution, tailored and scaled to your needs. We also provide augmentation services to support, coach, and develop the capability and capacity of your existing PMO, whether it operates at a project, programme, or portfolio level, or across all three.

CAPDA assists businesses with strategic planning and the development of capability through:

• Strategic Planning

• Business Case Development

• Sourcing Options

• Investment Decisions

• Implementation

• Logistics (Integrated Logistic Support and Supply Chain)

CAPDA Consulting offers experienced enterprise and solution architects to help your organisation decipher complex problems and define your organisational or technical goals.

Our team uses industry best-practice techniques, models, and methods to help describe your problem space and enable your build team to deliver outcomes that meet user needs.

We are experienced in leading Agile software development teams, as well as iterative and test-driven architectural methods. Importantly, our architects are cross-skilled in programme and project management, as well as management consulting. This means they understand how architectural efforts relate to delivery, the management of costs, and one of the most important aspects – communication.

CAPDA Consulting’s procurement and contracting professionals are experienced in managing high-value and high-risk procurement and contracting. Our professionals ensure a consistent thread is maintained through strategic objectives, capability requirements, procurement evaluation criteria, and contract performance measures.

CAPDA Consulting’s procurement and contracting services cover the entire process of procuring products or services and managing their acceptance and delivery. Our approach includes:

• Establishing the need

• Defining capability-based requirements

• Preparing a business case that supports the capability requirements, with costs, benefits, and risks clearly articulated

• Analysing sourcing options

• Approaching the market to invite submissions

• Evaluating submissions

• Recommending contract awards

• Managing the delivery of products and services under the awarded contract

At CAPDA Consulting, systems engineering addresses work processes, optimisation methods, and risk management. Our systems engineering specialists focus on the design and management of complex engineering projects throughout their life cycles.

Challenges such as reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, requirements management, evaluation metrics, and other disciplines become increasingly complex when dealing with large-scale projects.

Our approach to systems engineering recognises the overlap between technical and human-centred disciplines, ensuring that all likely aspects of a project or system are considered and integrated into a cohesive whole.

CAPDA Consulting delivers both integrated logistic support and supply chain services. For both, we model the complexity of a logistics system to deliver optimal solutions to specification while minimising the use of resources.

In support of complex materiel-based projects or systems, CAPDA provides an integrated and iterative process for developing capability solutions that:

• Optimise functional support and benefits to operations

• Leverage existing resources that may be held by the organisation

• Quantify and lower the life cycle costs, including maintenance, spares support, training, and facilities

• Simplify system support through an effective supply chain

CAPDA Consulting will plan and manage the flow of resources between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet your supply chain needs. Resources we are experienced in managing include physical items, such as food, materials, equipment, liquids, and staff, as well as abstract items, such as time and information.

CAPDA Consulting offers assurance across client programmes, projects, change management, procurement, contracting, engineering design and production, logistics, and technology design and production. We achieve this by assembling small teams of qualified and experienced professionals within specific domains to undertake short, intensive, evidence-based reviews. Our teams assess:

• The progress of activities against strategic requirements and specific objectives

• The robustness of technical solutions – from vessel design to ICT systems

• The capacity of a business to implement change and realise its benefits

• Stakeholder buy-in

• The performance of programme and project teams

• Governance arrangements

• Value for money

• Risk and issues management, including identification, reporting, and mitigation or contingency

• Lessons learned and continuous improvement

CAPDA Consulting’s professionals deliver assurance reports with evidence-based findings and recommendations. A report output may include a digital dashboard and an assessment of the urgency and criticality of implementing recommendations.

CAPDA Consulting’s experienced professionals can lead your teams through the delivery of complex and high-risk projects, programmes, and portfolios using techniques tailored to your organisation’s needs and culture. Methodology and practice-agnostic, CAPDA recognises that there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution and tailors the appropriate methods and practices to meet your business needs.

We can assist you in assessing your organisational, portfolio, programme, and project capability using Gateway Review and other industry best-practice tools and techniques.

CAPDA can provide Development Programme Evaluation and Project Gateway Review in the public sector and international development domains, aligned with the investment core criteria as well as the objectives of effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.

CAPDA Consulting can provide your business with an assessment of win likelihood based on the government’s approach to market and related activities. This service is crucial to determine whether further investment by your business in an opportunity is warranted. Considerations typically include:

• Summarising the government agency’s intent and objectives

• Analysing the market, competitors, and teaming partners

• Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of your business in relation to the government agency’s intent and objectives

CAPDA Consulting undertakes an analysis of solicitation documentation to provide your business with an assessment of the capability required to meet the government agency’s detailed specification. The analysis matches the government agency's need to your business’s capability.

CAPDA Consulting can assist your business in focusing on how to score highest on the evaluation factors for winning a specific government contract. We can help you with developing a win strategy, counteracting competitors’ probable approaches and advantages, and conducting risk assessments. CAPDA Consulting will also assist your business to focus on:

• Estimating price-to-win based on customer budget versus budgets awarded, performance risk, anticipated proposal risk, discriminators, and other factors

• Planning the resources required to develop a complete submission or proposal

• Creating a tactical execution paper for submission authors to follow in a coherent manner

• Estimate price-to-win based on customer budget versus budgets awarded, performance risk, anticipated proposal risk, discriminators, and other factors

• Plan the resources required to develop a complete submission or proposal

• Tactical execution paper for submission authors to follow in a coherent manner