Project Control Services

Drover was established to address the Owner needs with third party transparency and project reporting during all stages of the project life cycle; fiscal planning, bank feasibility study, project initiation, front end engineering, procurement, fabrication, logistics, project execution and close-out.

Today, Drover continues to provide project control services to numerous program and project management market sectors, including Oil & Gas, Mining & Mineral, Transportation, Water, and Energy utilities.

Our Expertise

Consulting Services

Our consulting services are designed to help organizations operating in capital investment projects set up project controls, or to identify and plan improvements.

Project Controls Maturity Assessments

This service provides a single or multi-project site review of project controls capability using the Drover Project Controls capability model. We review maturity level against four elements of People, Process, Tools and Governance, and provide you with a view of best practice including a gap analysis together with some suggested strategies and priorities for improvement.

Business Case Development

Supports the development of a Business case for investment in project controls. This could cover an investment in people, process, systems, governance or any combination of these areas.

Project Controls Capability Development

Drover will work with stakeholders (client) to help deliver a future desired to-be state across the elements of project controls and program management. We take a systematic approach by first mapping out the existing processes and assess whether they are fit for purpose alongside the current systems in place.

Change Management Services

Effective project controls requires that a fixed Performance Management Baseline (PMB) is established. This anchors the plan, the budget and the risk plan as a basis for performance measurement and management going forward.

Risk Management Services

It is acknowledged that successful outcomes to projects require keys risks to be recognized and managed. Our team will work with you to ensure that those risks are identified and that their mitigations are actioned at a level which is appropriate to the Project controls provides early warnings of risks which may affect the outcome of your project so that action can be taken as early as possible.

Project Cost Management Services

Our team can assist you in building your budget and controlling that budget against planned and actual cost of delivery using Earned Value techniques by aligning cost budgets with the plan through a common Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) we will provide you with an integrated approach which binds schedule and cost management together.

Project Planning Services

Our planning engineers are all skilled communicators who will work with you to derive a plan which accurately reflects the activities being undertaken, and identifies their relationships, all at a level of detail which is matched to your control needs.

Programme & Project Gateway Assurance

Stakeholders often require independent assurance at several stages that projects are achieving the right confidence status on time and cost and have an adequate management solution to remain in control as they proceed. Our experts can review your project and provide you with the confidence, along with any recommendations for improvement.

 

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