Implementation and Project Management

The key elements to any successful project is defining project expectations, allocating resources and determining the activities required to achieve the desired result. Paradigm Business Solutions (PBS) project managers’ work with your team to clearly define project goals. They work within time constraints and resource limitations to keep the project on track. Keeping your business strategy in mind, they are task oriented, have a strong sense of urgency and remain focused on what needs to be accomplished. In addition to developing our own in-house staff of Project Management specialists, we have also formed strategic partnerships with Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) and are a certified reseller of the MBS Solomon product suite.

Our team of certified professionals understands that needs differ from one organization to another. We will work with your team to achieve your desired "end-state" and to make those "software solutions" a reality.

We look at your implementation as a series of steps, each designed to help you build and manage your project plan before you get started. A brief outline of our methodology includes the following steps:

Step 1: Define

First, Paradigm will work with you to understand your project requirements by obtaining a thorough understanding of your business strategy and organizational goals. We look at your current business practices, readiness for change, infrastructure and reporting needs. This phase contains a review of resources, budgetary requirements and timelines. We also take into consideration areas of growth and change for your company by incorporating flexibility into our model.

Step 2: Plan

This step requires exploration on a more detailed level. Once Paradigm has the scope of the project defined, we begin to define objectives, prioritize tasks, assign dates and resources. As a team, Paradigm then develops key milestones and deliverables to measure the progress of our project.

Step 3: Design and Document

This is where the project begins to focus on specifics. It is in this phase that we design and document business transactions, processing methods and reports. As a team we review your existing procedures and business routines and analyze them to pinpoint areas of improvement and re-design.

Step 4: Test

The conference room pilot is a critical phase that involves using the software to ensure designs and processes work as expected. This phase involves testing all aspects of the software including job processing, interfaces, data feeds and reports. All test results are documented, issues are reviewed and problems are resolved before moving on to the next phase.

Step 5: Train

Clients have many options during the training phase of the project. Many times we customize and teach end user classes at your location, using your company information and set-up. This type of training works well by helping the end user learn the system with actual data and processing methods they already know. You may opt to have us train your key users or in-house trainers. All training is hands-on and delivered by our experienced professionals.