Practice
Project Management
Project, program and PMO leadership aligned with the PMBOK® Guide, for the initiatives that cannot be allowed to slip.
- Delivery approach
- Predictive, adaptive or hybrid, fitted to the work
- You receive
- Charter, integrated schedule, budget baseline, RAID log
Overview
Delivery is a discipline. We practice it.
Black Fortitude provides PMP-certified project leadership for companies, investors and organizations that need a critical initiative delivered on scope, on schedule and on budget.
We lead single projects, coordinate programs of related work, stand up project management offices and recover projects that have gone off course. The approach is fitted to the work: predictive where requirements are fixed, adaptive where they will change, hybrid where both are true.
Services
What the practice covers
Project delivery
One initiative, led from charter to closeout.
- Project charter and business case
- Scope definition and work breakdown structure
- Integrated schedule and budget baseline
- Execution, monitoring and change control
- Closeout, handover and lessons learned
Program and portfolio management
Related initiatives, governed as one.
- Program roadmaps and dependency management
- Portfolio prioritization and capacity planning
- Benefits definition and tracking
- Cross-project resource allocation
- Executive and board-level reporting
PMO design and setup
The structure that makes delivery repeatable.
- Project management maturity assessment
- Governance framework and stage gates
- Templates, standards and reporting cadence
- Tool selection and configuration
- Team training and coaching
Project recovery
For work that is late, over budget or stuck.
- Independent health assessment
- Root-cause analysis of schedule and cost variance
- Re-baselined plan and stakeholder reset
- Risk, issue and dependency triage
- Hands-on leadership through recovery
Aligned with the PMBOK® Guide, Eighth Edition
The standard behind the work.
Our delivery practice follows the principles, performance domains and focus areas set out in the Project Management Institute’s current standard.
Principles
How every decision is made
- Adopt a holistic view
- Focus on value
- Embed quality
- Lead accountably
- Integrate sustainability
- Build an empowered culture
Performance domains
What is managed and measured
- Governance
- Scope
- Schedule
- Finance
- Stakeholders
- Resources
- Risk
Focus areas
How the work moves
- Initiating
- Planning
- Executing
- Monitoring and controlling
- Closing
PMI, PMP and PMBOK are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. Black Fortitude is not affiliated with or endorsed by PMI.
What you receive
- Project charter and stakeholder register
- Work breakdown structure and integrated schedule
- Budget baseline and cost tracking
- Risk, assumption, issue and dependency log
- Change control log and decision record
- Weekly status and executive dashboards
- Closeout report and lessons learned
Delivery approaches
- Predictive for fixed-scope work such as build-outs, migrations and launches
- Adaptive for product, software and AI initiatives where requirements evolve
- Hybrid for programs that combine both, governed under one plan
Related practices
Next step
Start with a conversation.
Tell us what needs to get done. You will receive a written first read on where the work stands and the first move.