At CDI, we know that intense competition demands that IT projects be on time and within budget. Despite this, all too many projects result in cost overruns and missed deadlines. In fact, according to the IT investment planning company – The Standish Group – only 24% of IT projects undertaken by Fortune 500 companies complete successfully. A whopping 46% come in over budget and late, while 28% fail altogether.

Neither we – nor our customers – are resigned to these outcomes. The same Standish study found that the major cause of project failure was not hardware or software choices, but the lack of procedures, methodology and standards for project management (PM). A report published by Gartner in 2004 comes to similar conclusions.

Project Management Expertise

CDI has committed to a formal Project Management practice and methodology that allows us to maintain complete visibility into – and stewardship over – every aspect of a customer project. We’ve backed up this commitment by hiring key employees who’ve successfully completed the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification program of the Project Management Institute (PMI), an internationally recognized, not-for-profit professional association.

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)-based processes, tools and tracking reports help us protect our customers’ investments in our IT infrastructure services, in terms of cost and time. PMI’s PMP certification, earned by a growing number of CDI staffers, has dominant recognition in the field, and was the first certification of any kind to win ISO 9001 recognition, in 1999.

A CDI Project Manager oversees every customer project, working hand-in-hand with the other members of the project team, to ensure that the requirements and expectations are understood and that the project is well planned out. They also assign tasks to eliminate waste and rework and to maximize customer satisfaction. As a project progresses through its lifecycle, the CDI project manager is responsible for making sure that customer expectations are measured against quantifiable and relevant success metrics.

CDI’s Project Management discipline is not only applied to every project, but to every aspect of a project: scope, cost, time, risk, communication, integration, procurement and quality. Customers benefit from the research and updates on new procedures that we adopt, to continuously refine our methodology.

Get the Job Done Right the First Time
No matter which IT service CDI is providing for your company - Business Continuance, Backup & Recovery, Consolidations, Contract Management, Infrastructure Design, Microsoft, Migrations, Networking & Security, Project Management, Storage or Unix - you can breathe easier knowing that standards-based processes and tools are guiding your project to a successful, coordinated, documented and timely completion.

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