AMITA already has a tremendous knowledge base with the GOL Project, with the delivery of complex netcentric database solutions and with our own citizen-to-government e-service delivery and e-commerce business. A cornerstone to any significant project and significant budgeted project is the coordination, project management support, financial control of a multi-department GOL Initiative. Similar to Y2K, the new GOL initiative is no different, there are Treasury Board reporting guidelines and delivery dates, there are numerous phases (tier 1 – 4) that must be planned and tracked against, and there are numerous sub-projects that are interdependent. AMITA’s project office service keeps this governance framework in mind and helps organizations review and manage the many issues that arise. AMITA also has a mature project quality model that is ISO 9001-2000 certified that we use in our own project development initiatives for our own netcentric projects. To summarize, AMITA was already well respected in the industry before GOL came about, but with our knowledge base and with our GOL and e-Business services, AMITA is a valuable resource in Project Office and GOL Facilitation and strategy and planning.

AMITA will implement and customize a proven methodology suited for multi-department or multi-business-partner managed projects, with numerous sub-project goals with different company or organizational cultures, but who have shared goals. AMITA’s Program Management Office Framework approach provides the key elements for the establishment and operation of an integrated program management office. The AMITA Program Management Framework incorporates the Enhancement Management Framework (EMF) issued by Treasury Board and Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) and allows the integration of a department or corporate methodology and business practices as required. AMITA organizes projects for customers and assists them with fine-tuning of processes, and monitoring and reporting functions critical to any large scale IT project. These processes include risk management, issue management and change management. A work breakdown structure is developed in consultation with project stakeholders. A master milestone chart is developed and is a high value chart for the project executive. AMITA uses these tools to define work packages and they are also aligned with the overall project budget and financial reporting.

Implementation across departments and partners can be a daunting task. Our customers are leveraging AMITA’s existing experience in IM/IT GOL office and the pathfinder initiatives to bring their projects into an organized and coordinated initiative with all parties knowing how their piece fits in with the other partners. AMITA has extensive experience with the Enhanced Framework model and AMITA provides GOL planning services, Tier 1 – 4 reporting and planning for several large government departments.

AMITA helps companies and their business partners establish an organizational structure and role definition that is needed for e-Business because it touches most parts of an organization.

Critical to the success of any given project small or large, is proper definition of the project goals and objectives with each deliverable clearly defined for all partnering organizations, project managers, and subsequently project team members. AMITA clarifies the key performance indicators needed for each project and each stage. Our professionals work with the Project Management Team to develop processes and methods to deliver on each goal. Our Senior Consultants work with facilitation sessions and Project Charters to define goals and sub goals. Each deliverable is then defined and mapped to the overall project plan needed for the Executive Management Team and Team Partners.

Large projects involve numerous project managers, deadlines, dependencies, issues and goals. The Executive Management Team of a major project wants answers to schedules and issues and they want to know the financial impact of any variance. AMITA is known for their project office work for the GST Tax system, which involved some 500-project members and was delivered on-time.

In any significant sized project financial project budget tracking, financial recording coordination, budget reporting, is essential. AMITA can establish a full project financial tracking process, can implement a tracking toolset, and can establish a methodology for Project Managers for budget reporting. AMITA can provide our customer’s Senior Management with a snapshot of budget used to date, budget remaining against key performance indicators or goals. AMITA can provide the financial control even for projects that involve multi-departments, with different sub-projects.

AMITA brings years of systems development experience with different technologies but for real world problems that need practical solutions that work and work well. By calling upon AMITA’s Strategic Planning Services, AMITA helps organizations develop an entire system plan. We work with our customers to take an idea through business transformation, to business case assessment, through to issue definition, this has been the key to success to any system initiative. AMITA’s years of experience in understanding what an organization has to provide and how a system keeps our customers, users or clients coming back. AMITA’s methodology and approach incorporates our customers capabilities, strengths/weaknesses, technology options to develop a structured approach be able to determine how the entire project should be undertaken. AMITA’s ability to review and evaluate products against value and time-to-market capabilities are just some of the strategic points of focus where AMITA can help our customers. AMITA never leaves its customers with ideas without an implementation plan, otherwise the customer will not know how to implement a project across the enterprise.