Subject: Update from the Project Management Solutions Team
From: PM Solutions Team <[email-masked]>
To: All Staff Abt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:36:18 +0000

It’s been a while since our last update, and the Project Management Solutions Team—Carol Adoum from IEG, Frank Divita from ERD, Anne Hudzik from USH, Margarita Fernandez and Mark McEuen from IHD, and Sandy Nolden from SEP—would like to share a quick update on what are doing.

What Is the PM Solutions Team?

As a team of Operations Directors and Deputy Division Managers from each division, we bring a project-centered perspective and a systems-thinking view of company policies, processes, and initiatives.  We partner with colleagues throughout Abt Associates to try to improve operations affecting project management.  Our mission is to drive the continuous improvement of processes and to build skills and resources in support of project management.  The goal?  To make it easier to do our project work and execute with excellence.

What Are We Focusing On?

These are some of our priorities for the coming months:

·         Continue to partner with departments to examine processes, troubleshoot issues, improve services, and align priorities.

·         Work with stakeholders around the company to connect, leverage, and optimize company initiatives as they roll out, and to help find solutions when problems arise.

·         Collaborate with Abt Associates’ new Director of Knowledge Management to improve systems and processes for managing and accessing information about our people and projects.

·         Work with HR to expand PD training to international divisions and work with various departments to help align professional development and training offerings with project needs.

·         Improve our policy and procedures for project risk management.

·         Leverage and adapt the online contract review form used in international divisions for use in domestic divisions.

On Your Mind

We encourage you to contact us with feedback on and suggestions for company operations that affect project management.  We look forward to hearing your ideas for improving policies, processes, systems and services so that they optimally support the project work that is at the heart of the company’s mission.

The Project Management Solutions Team

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