JJ Consulting
Your Project Efficiency Experts
My name is Jennifer Jones, founder of JJ Consulting, and I’m on a mission to help you STOP wasting your precious time on inefficient project management practices so you can deliver higher quality service in less time, for less money and with less frustration.
Just imagine.
What if you could…
- Spend zero time on project status updates AND have the updated information always available to the right audience?
- Automatically estimate the budget impact of any change?
- Give all your team members an interactive list of what they need to work on next and the priority?
And what if you could do all of this across your project portfolio or by department or cost center?
We’re dedicated to making this your reality.
Through cutting-edge tracking tools with real-time visibility, we’ll help you gain your stakeholder’s trust, give your executives confidence and keep your team accountable.
Here’s what our clients are saying…
“When status updates were requested by senior leadership, it would sometimes take hours to pull together information related to project updates. JJ Consulting helped us create an Executive Dashboard that feeds directly from multiple project schedules, providing a one-stop destination for our leaders to find out real-time information on project status and schedules. We’ve been able to eliminate a few weekly standing meetings, and our leadership team have now asked us to create similar dashboards for other programs!” ~ Senior Project Manager, Project Governance in the Telecommunications Industry
“Engaging JJ Consulting is one of the best project delivery decisions we’ve ever made. We will be able to reuse the processes and tools on all of our standard projects going forward, which is a huge value. I intend to make them a part of every new client-facing project we deliver.” Vice President, Client Delivery in Utilities Industry
“We were struggling to manage our portfolio of work using our reactive, task-based approach and engaged JJ Consulting to help us get a handle on tracking and managing our portfolio of more than 100 active projects. Jennifer helped to define and implement a system to proactively manage our projects using Smartsheet. We now have a much better handle on our active projects and can anticipate resource needs and plan appropriately. It is fantastic to have one place where we can see the status of all of our projects and we can dive into detail where necessary.” ~Business Owner at a water quality company, offering solutions to clients who rely on high quality water as a basic component of their operations
“It was a joy to work with JJ Consulting to construct centralized project dashboards that contained all of the key project information (Schedule, Issue/Decision logs, action tracker, and risk register). Jennifer really listened to our needs and helped us figure out the best options. The end result was an extremely useful dashboard that is easy to use and the team likes! Now everyone can find all of the details in one place using the tools we already had in place and have a complete template set that can be used on future projects. I highly recommend working with JJ Consulting!” ~Senior Project Manager in the medical device industry
“I called Jennifer exasperated one day and said ‘I’m ready to switch … like I’m ready NOW! How fast can you get me up and running?’ And JJ Consulting worked their magic. Within a couple of days, I was customizing my project schedules that would be used by all my clients. I could change something on the project schedule and it was implemented across all my projects. I could tell the status of projects with wonderful little red, yellow and green lights. I could see how close we were to complete the project. I could look at my dashboard and see how many publishing clients I was working with and how many websites I was building. JJ Consulting customized all of my dashboards so that I could function much more efficiently. It gave me information I didn’t know I even wanted but now know I can’t live without. Moving to Smartsheet was one of the best things I could have done to up-level my business. And the best part? Getting to work with Jennifer and her team – they are compassionate and creative and helped me make decisions that were in the best interest of my company and my clients.” ~Business Owner of a media company offering full-service marketing, graphic design, website design/development and publishing services
Our Ideal Client
While we’ve worked with a wide range of organizations, our greatest experience lies in working with progressive architecture, engineering, and consulting organizations that want to minimize profit erosion with highly efficient project management solutions.
Specifically, we’ll make a great team if you…
- Need real-time project visibility to ensure fiscal success for your project sponsors and investors/stakeholders.
- Have a culture that supports being open and transparent to dealing with project issues as they come up.
- Are open to using new collaborative technology to supercharge efficiency.
- Want to gain a competitive edge with greater work agility, effective project tracking and team collaboration.
- Want to empower your team to get more done and deliver with speed and accountability.
- Like to have fun in the process. We work hard, but what’s the point if we can’t laugh along the way?
Here are a few more tidbits about our approach to work (and life)!
People and relationships come first.
Before any of the work we do, we’re people first. ‘Throwing someone under the bus’ in name of getting job done is never acceptable.
It’s all about Transparency.
We’re dedicated to making your project management processes more transparent, but transparency is a standard we hold ourselves to as well. When you work with our team we’ll always share our plan, as well as what we did, why we did it and how we got to the final result.
Disrupt the Elephant.
Say WHAT?! It’s hard to get ahead when there’s a giant elephant blocking your way, i.e. an issue everyone is dealing with but nobody is talking about. At JJ Consulting, we’re not afraid to disrupt elephants so we can get on with making the real progress your organization needs.
If you’re ready for real results with experienced consultants who will challenge preconceptions, motivate team-members, and catalyze change in your organization, then work with us and together we’ll propel your projects to profitability!