THE Guide: Scalable Project
Management and Software Engineering

Are You Competent In Your PM and Systems Engineering Methods?
A keystone of our PM Per4mance Methods, our IT project processes are not just repeatable. They are repeatedly used! Used by savvy IT organizations since the 1980s to improve their Business Benefits and Project Management transparency, THE Guide is their Information Technology Project Management and System Delivery process of choice.

Visibility into projects and satisfaction of regulatory or compliance requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley is really nothing new for our customers. In fact, that has been the biggest reason many have acquired THE Guide. Only now are many other Executives realizing that they do not have the confidence in their project processes to sign off on one of today's most stringent tests of IT project credibility. Do you?

THE Guide
THE Guide is our Information Technology Methodology, developed by the ProjectExperts, together with Requirements Solutions Group, our System Engineering partner. THE Guide helps you deliver all types of information systems, better faster and cheaper. At the same time, it is a framework for developing repeatable processes, improving Project Manager Competence, and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of your Systems Engineering staff.

THE Guide consists of a handful of key parts that work together to improve your project management effectiveness and system engineering results:

• The Systems Engineering Guide, system engineering methods, step by step
• The Co-Pilot: Small Project Guide universal methodology for small projects
• Working Document and Deliverable Templates for multipe paths or approaches
• Project Management Templates: Change, Issue, Status, Quality Reviews
• The Project Guide (minimum and advanced project management methods)
• The Estimating Guide (advanced estimating methods)
• Plan By Example^® (our rapid planning toolset), including
  • The 20 Questions,
  • PathFinder Strategies
  • ProjectExperts^® Templates for MSProject,
  • A Lite version of Quest For Better Estimates™ our advanced estimating tool, and
  • An IT Lite version of KnowRisk^®, our risk assessment tool
• Monographs (short papers on single-topics):
  • Rapid Initial Planning
  • Methods Improvement Plan
  • Prototyping and Accelerated Application Development

THE Guide Complementary Products
THE Guide is great for all your Information Technology projects. Now the rest of your Enterprise can benefit from ProjectExperts's methods, too! MinProj is our "Minimum Project Management for Maximum Results" product. It is a universal, Enterprise-wide Project Management methodolgy, light enough for everyone's use, and still totally consistent with THE Guide.

And, our universal Co-Pilot: Small Project Guide (which again is consistent, and appropriately scaled-down) is also built to meet the project management needs of all your small projects, all across your organization.

For more information about THE Guide, and our related products and services, see THE Guide online brochure, on this site: Go To THE Guide site section.