Hill Consulting Launches a New Project Management Methodology and a Free Offer

WOODBRIDGE, VA, FEB 10, 2006 -- The Hill Consulting Group today announced its development of a new, “matrix-based” methodology for project management. The new ProjectPRISM™ Project Management Methodology has hundreds of content pages that address the project management phases of Profile, Plan, Perform, and Post, and positions them against six key project performance areas: Customer, Project, Project Staff, Vendors, Business, and Management. The methodology includes three components that facilitate methodology implementation and use:

- Project Management Process Guide: A

complete and comprehensive compilation of essential project management processes
- Project Management Practice Guide: A presentation of concepts and models that help users to perform the prescribed processes
- Project Management Toolkit: A toolset for performing each process step so you know that essential actions are being performed and managed

The ProjectPRISM™ methodology can be scaled for projects of different size, complexity, and business value. It also can be customized for alignment with organizational or industry-specific needs, which is a forté of the Hill Consulting Group.

Gerard Hill, the firm’s Principal and author of the book, The Complete Project Management Office Handbook (Auerbach Publications), says, “The new ProjectPRISM™ methodology will give PMO’s a much needed business solution and project managers an effective approach to project management.” He adds, “Industries are beginning to recognize that project management is essentially business management, and this methodology has content that will contribute as much to achieving business success as it does to achieving project success.”

The Hill Consulting Group is introducing the methodology through a series of planned public workshops in Chicago, Charlotte, and Orlando. The complete ProjectPRISM™ methodology package (individual license) will be offered at no charge to workshop participants as part of its product introduction. You can obtain more information about the new methodology and the workshops by visiting www.HillConsultingGroup.com.

About the Hill Consulting Group

The Hill Consulting Group is a provider of innovative project and business management consulting services and strategic solutions for the project management environment. Although a young firm, it brings to each client engagement many years of Fortune 500 work, cross-industry experience, and valuable solutions that have been tried and tested around the world. Its focus is on helping clients to improve capability in project management through the integration of business and project management practices.

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