Project Performance International

PPI's consultants/professional service providers can help your enterprise achieve success in projects

Project Performance International also offers consultancy and other means of professional service delivery in a large variety of disciplines.

Clients typically apply our services for the purposes of capability benchmarking and improvement, acquisition, project delivery, or independent verification and validation. Our means of service delivery include:

• support by email, telephone and fax, with work performed off-site (often traveling)
• consultancy performed on-site/off-site
• contracted studies performed primarily off-site
• long-term on-site physical presence

PPI Services include:

• multi-disciplinary technology-based project definition studies, applying the best expertise available in Australia and world-wide
• development of engineering process capability
• on-site systems engineering capability assessments & benchmarking
• acquisition management support
• bid & proposal support
• project management support
• project risk analysis
• RFT/solicitation preparation and tender evaluation
• requirements analysis (capture and validation) and specification writing
• requirements quality assessment
• systems engineering - systems analysis and systems design
• software engineering
• systems and software independent verification & validation
• logistics support analysis
• life cycle costing

Software Tools which we use:

• Software tools used by Project Performance International include:
• CORE™ functional analysis and system design CASE tool
• CASETS™ System Engineering toolset
• System Architect™ structured analysis toolset
• TENDEVAL™ tender evaluation software
• Vital Link™ requirements traceability & management toolset
• XTie requirements traceability tool
• CRITERIUM DecisionPlus decision support software
• DATA™ decision and event tree decision analysis and contingency planning software
• Logical Decisions™ trade study software (MAUT-based)
• CASA (LCC), SWCE, PACER and other costing tools

How we work

Project Performance International is flexible with respect to client preferences for contract type. The following contractual bases are typical:

• full responsibility on a project/work package/specified deliverables basis, fixed or variable price
• consultancy and professional services - Project Performance Australia responsible for task management
• ad-hoc advice & mentoring, delivered by email & telephone
• contract labour - client responsible for task management

Accreditations

Relevant accreditations of Project Performance International include:

• Member - Defence Industrial Security Program (Australia)
• Member - Australian Industry & Defence Network
• Member - INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) Corporate Advisory Board
• Subsidiary Company (CTI) - Member - INCOSE Corporate Advisory Board
• Endorsed defence supplier (Australia)
• Courses accredited by Engineers Australia
• Courses accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA)
• Systems Engineering training in Brazil sponsored by INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)

Further details of these accreditations may be available under appropriate arrangements.