We manage portfolios of HR projects for HR leaders who would rather have their people delivering for the business.

YOUR PROGRAM & PROJECT ENGINE ROOM

HR projects are different

We’re running lean, focused on so many stakeholders, and we deal in the most intangible of assets: people, organization, and culture.

But what if the main reason we have such a hard time is because we are missing a project management mindset – and, as a result, select the wrong person to manage our projects, fail to lead for success, or even resort to self-sabotaging behaviors?

The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. From our best-selling book, through bespoke training and coaching, to full project delivery, View Beyond flexes to meet you where you are.

Why project management for HR

In HR, we regularly face challenges in delivering project success:

  • Initiatives running without clear scope or defined deliverables
  • No visibility into status until something breaks
  • Competing priorities with no framework for deciding what comes first
  • Accountability that sometimes exists on paper but rarely in practice
  • Risk and issues surfacing too late to address effectively
  • Decisions made in hallway conversations with no record or follow-through

Most HR groups respond to these challenges reactively, fixing things in the moment rather than building the structure to prevent them. That’s where project management comes in.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
HEALTH CHECK

  • Does the project have identified scope and endpoint?
  • Is there a single, accountable Project Sponsor?
  • Is the Project Leader skilled & experienced in project management techniques?
  • Is Project Team membership limited to essential resources?
  • Are Key Stakeholders identified and assigned to a Project Representative?

Answer “Yes” or “No” to each question for each project you are currently running:

  • 1 or more “No” = RED FLAG
  • 3 or more “I don’t know”/“I’m not sure” = RED FLAG
  • 2 or more “I don’t know”/“I’m not sure” = YELLOW FLAG
  • 5 “Yes” = GREEN FLAG

Success starts when you treat HR projects like projects,
not an extension of the day job

The challenges listed above aren’t unique to your organization. They show up wherever HR initiatives are managed without formal project discipline.

Project management provides the structure:

  • clear scope
  • defined ownership
  • regular cadence
  • tracked risks and decisions.

It’s a skillset that sits alongside HR expertise, and it changes how initiatives get planned, tracked, and delivered.

Treating HR projects like projects significantly increases the likelihood of successful outcomes.

How View Beyond delivers HR project management

We establish your virtual Program Management Office, integrating the work of your project teams into our proprietary platform, VPMHR.

Working with us, you gain a fully maintained project portfolio, that you can review at any time:

  • Comprehensive project planning and resources
  • Status reporting across scope, resources and timing
  • Forecasting of implementation activity across the short- to medium-term horizons
  • Issues, Risks & Decisions managed for full accountability
  • A regular cadence of governance, facilitating your leadership decisions

With View Beyond as your trusted partner, your team stays focused on adding value, while we keep the full picture together.

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 Vincent Tuckwood is the author of Project Management for Human Resources and a practitioner with nearly 30 years delivering HR programs at organizations like Pfizer.

Built on hard-won lessons from the trenches of HR delivery, his approach to project and program management is designed for how HR actually works.

“This is the approach that I used to collapse a ‘free-for-all’ of 144 projects into just 40 active, prioritized work-streams aligned within 5 strategic initiatives; and to take majority Red status to Green across the board within 6 months. Only I had to do it in multiple spreadsheets, powerpoints, data warehouses and printed pages!” ~Vince

READ THE BOOK

If you want to understand the methodology first, Project Management for Human Resources is the place where many people start.

  • A project health check to highlight burning issues and potential breakdowns
  • The critical criteria for selecting the right person to manage the project
  • A simple, 4-stage protocol that delivers results at every stage of the project
  • A stage-by-stage breakdown of techniques, tools and templates
  • The 5 habits of success for HR colleagues who manage projects

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SELF-DELIVERY

Manage it yourself within our proprietary toolset, VPMHR. Tiered pricing to fit your needs. Sandbox to see it in action with real data.

  • Programs
  • Projects
  • Status
  • Issues, Risks & Decisions
  • Tools:
    • Project Charter
    • Project Health Check
    • After Action Review

All in one place. First month free.

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FULL-DELIVERY

We deliver your virtual Program Management Office, working with in-house project teams and Sponsors.

  • Weekly or bi-weekly project cadence with your team members
  • Status reporting across scope, resources, and timing
  • Issue, risk, and decision tracking with clear accountability
  • A fully maintained VPMHR portfolio you can review any time

Transparent pricing: $6,000 per month for up to five active projects. $1,000 per month for each additional project.*

* NOTE: An entry-level project manager costs $120-150K+ fully loaded (src. ZipRecruiter). And they likely don’t know HR at all.

book your scoping discussion

Whether it’s Project Management training, comprehensive implementation of a Program Management Office, or simply implementation of our online toolset, VPMHR, a quick scoping discussion is always the first step to making sure we deliver for you.

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