What is Project Management?

Certainly. Project management is customized. A project has multiple phases: we can help from the initiation of a project, when the project goal is still only in people’s minds, or when the project has already started. If you are dealing with a stalled project, we can also step in. Not every project is equally complex. We have project managers with many years of experience, as well as driven starters who can bring a project to a successful conclusion. For each project, we ensure that there is guidance within MareVisie that thinks along in the background about what is needed for your project.

The unsatisfactory answer is: it depends. The costs are different for each project because they depend on the services, expertise, and the number of hours provided. It’s important that the costs for project management are in good proportion to the size and complexity of the project. This requires experience and insight. By having MareVisie carry out the project or program management of your project, you invest in project success. It is many times more costly if projects stall or are delivered with significant delays. This ties up your valuable employees who cannot focus on other matters at that time. Good project management ensures better project results, more control in your organization, and motivated colleagues. A program demands a lot from an organization: it takes up the time of -often busy- colleagues and the stakes are high, which can quickly lead to irritations and conflicts. With solid program management, these kinds of issues can be prevented.

When multiple projects need to lead to one result, we deploy program management. A program has multiple phases: we can help set up a program, or execute a program that has already been defined. If you are dealing with a stalled program, we can also step in. MareVisie provides you with a program manager who can set up a program and lead it to a successful result.

When multiple projects are needed that must lead to one result in coherence, the challenge is even greater. The challenge is to set up a program in an adequate way, and to give sufficient time and attention to this in the start-up phase. This involves various aspects: What is the intended result of the program? Into which projects should the program be divided, and how do these connect to each other? MareVisie has a keen eye for these matters.

When the various projects are independent of each other, then it’s a matter of portfolio management. In that case, it’s important that you are able to decide which projects should be executed, when, based on the right information, and that you can intervene in projects if necessary. We can advise you on portfolio management and support its implementation.

Project Manager Office (called PMO) is often used for larger projects and for clients who have already appointed an internal project manager, who may have other line activities alongside. Every project leader spends a considerable part of their time on administrative tasks, information gathering, and quality control. The PMO can take over tasks or provide support and offers project leaders a sparring partner and right-hand person, someone with specific knowledge in the field of project management and the associated software (for example, planning, financial, or ERP software packages). This way, the project manager can concentrate on their role and ensure the execution and control of the project

The field of work and the fulfillment of tasks of our project manager office is therefore very diverse. It can provide support with, among others:

• Setting up the project (according to PRINCE2 guidelines);
• Establishing and monitoring the project planning;
• Keeping the (project) organization informed about the progress of the project;
• Collecting data to enable regular reporting;
• Quality assurance of the delivered products. This involves continuous evaluation against the quality requirements agreed upon at the start of the project.

In a large-scale project, project support adds value by assisting the project manager and other project team members.
Our colleagues have completed university-level education in STEM fields and are versatile. The project supporter is a well-organized and dynamic professional. They drive the project forward from planning to implementation, and their actions directly influence the project’s efficiency. The project supporter can take over tasks or assist with monitoring progress or planning, various administrative tasks, information gathering, or quality assurance. Our project support is versatile and supports the entire team of the respective project. This allows the team and project manager to focus on the execution and control of the project.

MareVisie helps companies develop their strategy and implement it by deploying our experts in project management, business operations, and process design. Our expertise is to make the operational and strategic process within a company more successful.

MareVisie can provide you with expert advice or offer support in implementing a new strategy or other changes within your organization.

Our colleagues possess specialized knowledge in various fields. They are independent and objective, and become part of your organization for a specific period to set up a project, implement it, and monitor the results afterwards.

To succeed in a transformation, a human-centered and pragmatic approach is important, with attention to stakeholders at all levels. Often, an organization adapts its strategy, structure, processes, and systems, but pays little attention to the implementation and necessary development of employees and managers. Employees only truly embrace a new strategy or change when they are involved and experience the added value.

Our experts support your strategy development and have experience with strategy models, execution, and implementation. When developing the strategy, it’s important to pay attention to support and execution by the organization. Because strategy provides a foundation for action. What do you want to achieve as an organization, how will you further develop, what priorities do you set? With the important goal of what return we want to achieve and how we’re going to increase this return. With our proven successful approach, we translate your strategy into concrete results.

MareVisie places great emphasis on communication as a tool within project management and consultancy. Marketing and communication are only well utilized within an organization when they align with the mission, vision, and strategy. This allows for engagement with the internal customer (your employees) and addressing the needs of both current and potential customers. During your project, we can handle your external communication.

By linking communication to the established strategy, we can achieve goals through the use of on- and offline media.

Internal communication is also important in larger organizations, often going hand in hand with change management or strategy implementation. With good and targeted communication, your employees and customers stay connected to ongoing developments.

MareVisie is your strategic partner in project management and consultancy. We guide national and international companies in achieving their goals. We are based in Voorschoten, in the region of Leiden and The Hague. With our in-depth knowledge of IT, technology, and business processes, we work together to ensure innovation, growth, and successful projects. Our technical project managers are the linchpin in successfully executing complex technical projects. They deliver solutions that promote efficiency, innovation, and success.

Professional expertise and technical knowledge.
From program management to portfolio management, our project managers provide strategic guidance and hands-on support. They ensure that projects meet the highest standards and contribute to organizational goals.

The MareVisie team consists of experienced project managers, consultants, and technical experts. Our specialists combine extensive knowledge of project management methodologies such as PRINCE2, Agile, and IPMA with strong social skills. We think proactively, offer clear solutions, and work as an extension of your team. Together, we ensure that your projects run smoothly and successfully.

MareVisie is more than a project management agency. We are an organization of driven professionals, strategic partners, experts, and (working) students who inspire each other. There is a strong involvement with the operations at TU Delft and an experienced Advisory Board.

We are an engaged and innovative partner that supports companies in complex projects and process optimizations. Our focus is on combining people, technology, and strategy to achieve sustainable results. Whether it’s IT transformations, process optimization, or change management, MareVisie ensures balance, structure, and growth.

Every company runs on business processes. How efficient these processes are and how well they are described and/or set up differs per company. Project-based changes impact these business processes. Our experts are happy to look at how these need to be adjusted and optimized with you.

We inventory, analyze, and optimize information and organizational processes. We look at the lead times and what quality controls are necessary for the desired output and process flow. But processes do not stand alone; they need to support the organizational strategy and keep the organization manageable. IT supports the processes and the people who execute them. With our approach, we ensure better coherence between processes.

For the primary processes, the core business of the organization, it is important to know well what service or product needs to be delivered. Only based on that can a solid advice be given and a suitable project proposal be developed. The secondary (supporting) processes are not part of the core business but are essential. Every organization has its characteristic features, but the processes in the areas of IT, Finance, Procurement, Logistics, and Sales are often basically the same.

We are well-informed about the internal processes, and the products and services that are delivered within those sectors. This immediately provides the client with a good sparring partner, allowing us to jointly shape projects towards realistic goals that can be delivered within deadlines.

Many of our projects are SAP and/or ERP related, where we guide both new implementations, upgrades, and large-scale changes. With our experiences in ERP trajectories, we have a lot of knowledge of the basic business processes, and this knowledge is useful in all IT projects. Because IT landscapes are almost always complex and contain numerous interfaces, properly mapping these landscapes is crucial to successfully realizing a project.

But our IT experience is broader than ERP/SAP. In our projects, we often deal with custom applications and other commercially available packages such as Microsoft CRM, Oracle, and Salesforce. Our in-depth expertise in the area of interfaces between applications has often proven to be an additional success factor.