Case study · Professional and business services
PPS Consulting India ran the transformation office for a global finance and accounting transformation: nine workstreams, each with its own project manager, on one integrated plan from design to stabilisation. The office worked as a Project Management Office (PMO) for the programme, keeping every workstream on the same plan, tracking decisions and risks, and giving the CFO a one-page status every week.
9 workstreams, one cadence
nine project managers reporting in one format, with a one-page status for the CFO every week
A finance and accounting transformation across countries changes much of what a finance team does at once. Here that meant nine workstreams across the finance function, each with its own project manager, and vendor and system milestones to track.
Without one office holding them together, programmes like this drift: nine status formats, dependencies found late, and no single view for the CFO of where the programme stands.
One integrated plan with the dependencies between workstreams, a weekly cadence and agenda, a decision log with owners, and a risk and issue register. One status format for every workstream: the office owns the format, the project managers own the content.
The office ran the cadence through implementation: a 15-minute check-in with each workstream, a weekly session on dependencies and risks with all nine project managers, and a one-page status for the CFO. Vendor and system milestones sat in the same plan as everything else.
A monthly steering committee for decisions and a quarterly re-plan with a benefits review, as the programme moved from implementation to stabilisation.
Nine workstreams, a project manager each
Every workstream reports in the same format, on the same day, against the same plan.
Cadence
Phases
The same plan, status format and decision log from start to finish.
What the transformation office ran
Everything the office produced belonged to the programme: the integrated plan, the decision log, the risk register, the benefits tracker and the steering pack, in the one format every workstream already reported in.
It is if:
“I worked with Rahul over an extended period, first as CFO at SHRM and later as CHRO at Delinea. He is highly reliable, responsive, and consistently delivers high-quality work.”
With the PPS Backbone Review: four weeks, a fixed fee of ₹1,50,000 to ₹3,50,000 plus GST and expenses, one fix working by the end, and a plan with owners and measures that is yours to keep, whether or not we build it with you.
How the Review works90 days
from naming owners to the company's own team running the weekly cadence
Relevant if you are taking over a family business and the way it runs still lives with the founding generation.
Running now
30+ projects, one plan
five project managers on one weekly cadence, and one view for leadership and investors
Relevant if you have more initiatives running than anyone can list from memory.
1,775 hours
nine months in the office of the chief human resources officer, from two HR functions to one
Relevant if you are merging or acquiring, and two ways of working now have to become one.
Across Upwork and direct contracts, including the people on our project teams.
It holds the whole programme together: one plan with the dependencies between workstreams, one status format, one decision log and one risk register. The project managers run their workstreams; the office makes sure nine of them add up to one programme, and that the CFO sees it on one page.
A one-page status every week, a monthly steering committee for decisions, and a quarterly re-plan with a benefits review. The detail stays with the office and the project managers.
What you're trying to achieve in the next 90 days, and what's breaking in execution. We'll tell you plainly what we'd fix first.
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