Promitus Solutions Management Services

April 30, 2008
Promitus Solutions presents to the Project Management Institute (PMI) Ottawa Valley and Outaouais Chapter April luncheon, to a capacity crowd, on lessons learned and tips on developing a Project/Program Portfolio Management (PPM) and Performance Measurement Framework employing the tenets of OPM3 and the Treasury Board MAF.

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February 12, 2008
Promitus Solutions is retained to work with the Enterprise Architecture, Strategic Planning, and Applications Management Directorates of a Federal Department on a series of workshops to plan the adoption of a new IT portfolio management and systems application development methodology and framework. Promitus facilitates several rounds of workshops with various executive and managements stakeholders that culminate in deliverying various process and deliverable maps, an implementation/action plan, and a draft directive memorandum for the CIO’s office to announce the initiative to the entire department.

July 30, 2007
As part of a major IT transformation program, Promitus is retained to work with a Federal CIO branch to develop a performance management and outcomes reporting framework for adoption by all IT/IM initiatives throughout the enterprise. Promitus works with client, Finance, and CIO executive stakeholders employing basic tenets of OPM3, Treasury Board MAF and MRRS, and Program-Portfolio Management (PPM) to formulate new policy, process and procedures. The framework enables reporting on all IT/IM outcomes in the annual department performance (DPR) report to Parliament.

April 30, 2007
Promitus is retained to work with one of the Federal Government of Canada cluster groups to conduct a study for the potential move to a shared service. Promitus facilitated a series of meetings with steering committee members comprised of CIOs and IT Director Generals from all departments in the cluster. The study included a high-level requirements gathering, action plan, and preliminary estimates. A final report was prepared for the ADM chair.

December 5, 2006
Promitus Solutions presents to the Project Management Institute (PMI) Manitoba Chapter December luncheon, to a capacity crowd.

A Principal in our Technology Planning practice served as project manager and senior implementation expert on a major worldwide rollout of an ERP system for an international Fortune 500 company. The presentation described the approach, and some of the challenges on managing a project on such a global scale.

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September 5, 2006
Promitus is awarded a contract with the Government of The Bahamas to provide management services. Promitus led the facilitation of the requirements gathering and development of a major RFP IT procurement initiative. The initiative spans several federal departments, and is to procure a complete multi-million dollar solution to replace the road traffic licensing systems and infrastructure.

August 14, 2006
Promitus is awarded a contract with the Government of Manitoba to provide project management services. The project represents a next step in the transformation of a program to a shared service that is uniting provincial workers with a host of native authorities and agencies. Promitus is providing leadership to the multidisciplinary team of over twenty dedicated business and technology, consultant and internal staff.

July 17, 2006
Promitus is awarded a contract to assist a federal agency of Canada in the planning and scoping of a departmental-wide document management, case management, workflow management systems integration project.

June 10, 2006
Promitus is proud to once again be part of the ALS walkathon. Promitus was further honoured this year with receiving the Michael Marko award for its involvement with the walkathon over the past several years.

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March 13, 2006
Promitus is asked by an internationally recognized management consulting firm to provide subject matter expertise in the preparation of a Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada sponsored government-wide survey.

November 1, 2005
Promitus is awarded an engagement with the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada to provide executive project planning and integration support to the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada (PSHRMAC) for the assembly of the shared corporate services Human Resources business case and treasury submission.

September 24, 2005
Promitus is proud to once again sponsor and participate in Ottawa’s 2005 ALS WALK To D'FEET ALS.

August 15, 2005
Promitus Solutions is asked to work with Canada Revenue Agency’s web infrastructure operations division to update and modernize the migration process, procedures and tools for their testing and verification environment for all web-based applications.

June 22, 2005
Promitus is awarded an engagement to work directly with the Commissioner of a Federal Government Agency and his executive management cadre to prepare a business case transformation proposal to form the basis of a Treasury Board submission. Promitus gathered information throughout the organization, as well as input from other departments and the central agencies on similar initiatives. Promitus proceeded to identify the major cost benefit drivers, and later prepared a business case complete with qualitative and quantitative benefits based on preliminary cost and schedule estimates.

April 1, 2005
Promitus Solutions is asked to work with the quality assurance division of the Canada Revenue Agency’s Information Technology (IT) Branch, to design, develop, and put in place an enterprise-wide readiness assessment process. The process is necessary for ensuring that all application releases are: coordinated with each other in terms of integration/interfaces as well as timing/scheduling; successfully completed with respect to the various development, testing, validation and verification activities; and regarded with an overall high degree of confidence that the cutover to production will go as planned, or that the fallback or contingency plan can be quickly and fully exercised with no interruption to ongoing production system operations.

September 25, 2004
Promitus is a proud sponsor and participant in this year's ALS WALK To D'FEET.

September 6, 2004
Promitus Solutions is awarded an engagement to provide the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada with senior IT project management services in support of the multi-billion dollar Federal government-wide Information Technology and Corporate Services operations and expenditure review.

June 16, 2004
Promitus Solutions Ltd. is awarded a Supply Arrangement with the Government On-Line (GOL) Program office at Public Works and Government Services Canada within the Informatics Professional Services stream. More information is available at the GOL website under http://www.gol-ged.gc.ca/

March 1, 2004
Promitus Solutions is asked by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) to develop a report for senior executive IT management detailing strategies to modernize the organization dedicated to managing and maintaining user accounts for all DFAIT employees both in Canada and at Canada’s 200+ missions throughout the world.

September 27, 2003
Promitus is a proud sponsor and participant in this year's ALS WALK To D'FEET.

September 8, 2003
Staff at Promitus Solutions Ltd. join the faculty of the Management Sciences Department at the Université du Québec en Outaouais to develop courses and lecture for the Masters of Business Administration and PMI-accredited Masters of Project Management programs.

August 16, 2003
Promitus Solutions is retained by Human Resources and Development Corporation (HRDC) to provide strategic procurement advice to the ADM executive leadership for the major Modernizing Services for Canadians transformation program.

March 3, 2003
Promitus Solutions is retained by the CEO of Northwest BC Timber and Pulp to provide strategic advice and guidance on the Information technology capability of the recently acquired Skeena Cellulose.

October 21, 2002
Promitus Solutions Ltd. is awarded an In-Service Support Supply Arrangement (ISS SA). This supply arrangement prequalifies Promitus in various consulting categories in the IT, Management Consulting, and Communications domains of expertise. More information is available at Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) website under http://www.pwgsc.gc.ca/sipss/pspd/iss/holders/209-e.html

September 25, 2002
Promitus Solutions presents to the Project Management Institute (PMI) Ottawa Valley and Outaouais Chapter fall luncheon, to a capacity crowd.

A Principal in our Technology Planning practice recently served as project manager and senior advisor on two distinct departmental business intelligence implementation projects for two different Federal Government Departments. These systems serve to provide various types of users financial information from the department's financial ERP Systems. Some common challenges and best practices emerged from these implementations. Promitus Solutions presented the process that unfolded, some key lessons learned, and some key considerations to successfully realizing a business intelligence implementation.

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August 28, 2002
Promitus Solutions presents to the Government Online Braintrust at Canada Customs and Revenue Agency

In a rare opportunity provided through CCRA's GOL Project Office, Promitus Solutions was invited to present our views on Defining Success for Technology Projects to this CCRA-internal management committee. The presentation discussed how to maintain flexibility while managing scope, and offered some techniques for successfully taking a technology project beyond implementation and through rollout, thereby realizing true overall success. This presentation became instrumental in gaining executive buy-in to an enhanced delivery model for an agency-wide web infrastructure program budgeted at over $30M.

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August 2, 2002
Promitus Solutions is retained to work with Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) in order to provide ongoing management services in the Web World Program Office.

April 16, 2002
Promitus Solutions is retained to work with Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) in order to develop a master migration plan for transitioning over 30 different mission-critical enterprise program information systems to a new consolidated e-business computing server infrastructure.

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