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A senior PM embedded in your team.

Certified Project Managers (PMP, Scrum, SAFe) embedded in your team. Discovery, roadmap, delivery, reporting, risk management. A flexible arrangement, without committing to a full-time hire.

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Golden Lady
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From idea to executable plan.

A good discovery helps distinguish projects that work from ones that stall. We define measurable goals, the stakeholders involved, the constraints (budget, time, quality) and success KPIs before building.

Visual, realistic roadmap: epics, milestones, dependencies. A living tool that evolves every sprint, not a 200-task Gantt written once and never updated.

Discovery workshop — 3-5 days with stakeholders to align goals, scope, constraints, risks. Output: shared roadmap + KPIs.
Quarter-by-quarter roadmap — Goals, milestones, dependencies, capacity. 'Three plans' version: now (sprint), next (quarter), later (year).
Definition of ready — What does 'feature ready' mean? Acceptance criteria + tests + monitoring + docs. No surprises in demo.
ROADMAP EXAMPLE
1-2 wk
Sprint cadence
+25%
Velocity after 3 sprints
< 5%
Avg rework
100%
Progress transparency

Cadence, rhythm, focus.

Weekly or bi-weekly sprints with functional ceremonies. Short daily, realistic planning, review with live demo, retro with concrete actions. WIP limit: the team focuses on finishing things, not on multiplying them in parallel.

Well-tuned tools: Jira/Linear configured with care, clean boards, tracked velocity, visual burn-down. Clear definition of done: a task is complete or it isn't, avoiding the '80% done' limbo.

Scrum or Kanban — Scrum when the product is a defined project; Kanban when continuous flow (e.g. ops, marketing).
Predictable velocity — After 3 sprints we know what the team really delivers, and plan accordingly. No infinite padding.
Live demo every sprint — Everyone sees, everyone comments, everyone understands where we are. No end-of-project surprises.

Communication and alignment.

Many projects struggle more on communication than on technique. The PM is the contact point between business, tech team, clients, vendors. Filters noise, highlights critical decisions, keeps everyone aligned while reducing unnecessary meetings.

One source of truth: Confluence/Notion for docs, Slack/Teams for fast comms, written weekly digest for those who don't want meetings. Decisions tracked, rationale written. Audit-ready.

Clear RACI — For each decision: who's Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. No more 'I didn't know'.
Weekly stakeholder digest — 5 minutes reading per week for executive sponsors: progress, blockers, needed decisions.
Steering committee — Defined cadence (monthly/quarterly), pre-distributed agenda, tracked decisions, action items with owner and deadline.
STAKEHOLDER MAP
< 10%
Avg scope creep
0
Go-live surprises
PMP/SAFe
Team certifications
24h
Max escalation

Anticipating problems instead of reacting to them.

Every project carries risk. Risk register kept current, with probability, impact, owner, mitigation plan. Reviewed every 2 weeks. Risk management is explicit, not left to hope.

Quality gates between phases: nothing moves forward without objective criteria met (test, doc, security, performance). Definition of done shared and non-negotiable mid-sprint.

Living risk register — Top 5 risks always visible, explicit ownership, bi-weekly review. Mitigate or accept, no limbo.
Quality gates — Code review, security scan, performance test, accessibility check: objective phase-gate criteria.
Early warning — Velocity drop, recurring blockers, silent scope creep: weak signals to catch before they become crises.

Concrete reporting, every week.

Reporting isn't only 'status green, yellow, red'. It's concrete metrics: velocity vs. plan, scope delivered, budget burn rate, quality metrics, customer satisfaction. Dashboards anyone can open without having to ask the PM.

Clear accountability: the PM owns delivery, surfaces delays in advance, proposes solutions instead of justifications. We work focused on the project's outcome.

Executive dashboard — Project and business KPIs in one view. Auto-updates from Jira/Linear, no manual weekly PowerPoints.
Weekly report — 1 page, 5 minutes reading: what's done, what's coming, what's blocked, what's needed from you.
Structured post-mortem — End of project or post-incident: what worked, what didn't, what we change. No names, no blame.
KPI DASHBOARD

A good PM frees up the team.

Without a dedicated PM, many decisions flow through the founder or CTO. With a senior PM, operational decisions stay at the right level: leaders can focus on strategy, the team on delivery, the PM holds the two together.

The goal isn't adding overhead, but reducing it: fewer meetings, more decisions, more effective working time. When the PM is doing the job, you mainly notice it through results.

What we get asked the most.

Transparency first. If your question isn't here, write to us: we reply within 24h, from a real person.

What is PMaaS vs an in-house PM?
Project Management as a Service means a senior PM dedicated to your team in embedded mode, but with variable cost (days/week or full-time) and no permanent commitment. You access seniority levels otherwise unreachable without hiring full-time.
What methodologies do you work with?
Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, lean. All our PMs are certified (PMP, PMI-ACP, PSM, SAFe). Methodology follows the problem, not the other way around: incremental product = Scrum; continuous flow = Kanban; multi-team portfolio = SAFe; regulated projects = hybrid waterfall.
How much does a senior PMaaS cost?
Depends on weekly commitment and seniority. Part-time (2 days/wk): €4–7k/month. Full-time embedded: €12–18k/month. Multi-team program lead: €18–30k/month. No hiring costs, no severance, scale up/down on demand.
How quickly is a PM operational?
Onboarding 3-5 days after kickoff: review existing docs, 1:1 with stakeholders, set up tooling, baseline metrics. From then on completely embedded and owning delivery.
What tools do you work with?
Jira, Linear, Asana, Monday, Trello for task management; Confluence, Notion, SharePoint for docs; Slack, Teams for comms; Miro, Mural for workshops; Power BI, Tableau, custom dashboards for reporting. We adapt to your stack.
What if fit doesn't work?
Absolute transparency. After the first sprint there's a fit check. If it doesn't work, we swap the PM at no additional cost. If PMaaS itself isn't right for you, we help find the right solution — even if it's not us.

Got a complex project to set up or unblock?

A 30-minute call to figure out if you need a dedicated PM, a different method or another kind of intervention. Honest answers based on your context.