Project Management consulting services

Education Edge provides project management consulting to organisations, from an office at 120 Matheson Boulevard East in Mississauga, Ontario. Organisations bring us in when the strategy is settled but the projects meant to deliver it are not landing — the gap between what was decided and what actually gets built. Closing that gap is the work, and the discipline has a name for it: strategic project management.

What the work actually is

Most of it is execution rather than advice. A plan starts to deliver when somebody owns the schedule, the risks and the reporting; when the people doing the work can see how their part connects to the decision that started it; and when progress is measured against something written down rather than against the last status meeting. We do that inside your governance, with your teams, until it holds without us.

The work we are brought in to do:

• Program Management
• Setting up a Centre of Excellence (C.O.E.), and PMO design and practice
• Implement and Adoption of the Agile framework
• Business Process Services
• Organizational Change Management
• Digital Transformation
• Business & IT Strategy
• Quality Engineering & Assurance

A PMO or a Centre of Excellence works when it is clear what it may decide and what it only reports; where one has been ignored, that is usually the thing nobody settled. Agile adoption hits the same wall — a pilot team changes how it works and nothing above it changes at all.

Our consultants arrive with a method rather than a blank page, and with the people that method needs: who plans, who holds the governance, who sits with your team day to day. We staff an engagement alongside your own people rather than in place of them. That keeps the cost down, and it leaves the knowledge inside your organisation after we have gone.

What you see while it runs

You see the same numbers we do. Every engagement runs on a scorecard, written reports and regular touchpoints, so progress is a document you can forward to a steering committee rather than a conversation you have to summarise.

Education Edge is also a PMI Authorized Training Partner, ATP #4456, and teams from public-sector, infrastructure, banking, retail, telecom and technology organisations have trained with us. The organisations we name are on the corporate training page.

Engagements start with the problem, not with a proposal. A programme that keeps slipping, a PMO nobody uses, an Agile rollout that stalled after the pilot, a transformation with nobody accountable for the benefits — tell us which one it is and we will tell you how we would approach it.