The Columbia Group provides Integrated Program Planning and Management services for all of the functions of a Department of Defense (DOD) Program Management Office (PMO) and a Program Executive Office (PEO), including functional area analysis, program integration, business management/administration and program management.
We synchronize programs’ internal component activities and de-conflict competing needs. We also work to harmonize the interests of stakeholders external to the PMO/PEO.
In addition, we provide the following support functions throughout all stages of the system acquisition life cycle across all program activities and to all external stakeholders:
- Integrated master planning
- Integrated master scheduling
- Documentation preparation and review
- Milestone decision preparation
- Formal and informal reporting
- Integrated product team management
- Optimization and tradeoff analysis
- Performance measurement
- Risk management
We also provide Integrated Program Planning and Management Support to non-DOD customers, drawing upon our knowledge and experience within DOD programs to create effective solutions in the non-DOD world.