Desert Road Group
Desert Road Group
 
 

What We Do

 

Capability Delivery

As professional and seasoned project managers, the Desert Road team knows how to deliver projects and programmes on time and within budget. We have a strong track record of turning failing projects and programmes into industry leading examples of what can be achieved in a cohesive operating environment. Feel free to contact us for recent examples.

All New Zealand Government agencies have a fiscal responsibility to invest and spend taxpayer money wisely. Desert Road follows and promotes Treasury’s ‘Better Business Case’ model and All Of Government (AoG) Rules of Procurement to ensure a commercially robust and evidence based approach to capability procurement.

Treasury Better Business Case Guidance

AoG Rules of Sourcing

Capability Definition

Capability definition is the translation of high level intent (national level strategy and policy) into organisation level capability definition documents. Getting this right is vital to creating a sound foundation for any capability framework. At Desert Road we assist the client by advising on or leading the development of capability definition documents that will then become the capstone for subsequent project artefacts.


Requirements Definition

Well written requirements significantly reduce procurement risk. It is important to find the balance between providing enough detail to inform the market of your needs without limiting the scope for potential suppliers to provide you with innovative solutions. We exercise strategic thinking and empathy in our communication with end-users to better define user and system requirements that will be used to initiate capability procurement.

 
 
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How We do it

 

Prince2 is a globally recognised project management framework that can be tailored and scaled to meet the client’s needs.  All Desert Road project managers have real world experience delivering projects in accordance with Prince2.

SAFe is the world’s leading framework for scaling Agile across the enterprise. Used by hundreds of the world’s largest organisations, SAFe sustains and drives faster time-to-market, dramatic increases in productivity and quality, and improvement in employee engagement.

SAFe White Paper

More about Release Train Engineers (RTE)

Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) brings sense to the chaos of managing large and often complex interrelated projects by providing a structured delivery framework.  Principal Lead Justin Tunnage has considerable experience leading a successful $75M programme of work in accordance with MSP.

ArcGIS Online Administration Associate certification proves Senior Geospatial Advisor Gerhard Lanz has experience using concepts and processes to effectively manage an ArcGIS Online organisation. For clients, this means their GIS data and content are being handled by a certified professional, ensuring efficient and secure management of their geographic information.