Management - Extending your in-house team

For major IT projects with complex resource requirements, rigorous programme
management and flexible support services are critical to meeting deadlines and budgets. But providing these vital services often stretches already hard-pressed IT departments to their limits.

Our all-round approach ensures that all programme management and support services are delivered cost effectively as a complement to your own IT resources. 

In addition to our world-class programme management capabilities, we also offer specific project services including:

Project Management

Our project management expertise covers all the tasks associated with establishing, managing, controlling and delivering projects and includes:

  • Agreeing the project objectives
  • Understanding the project tasks and associated skill requirements and scheduling constraints
  • Estimating project tasks
  • Confirming resource requirements and availability
  • Scheduling the project
  • Recording project progress
  • Assessing project progress
  • Controlling the project
  • Managing the project team
  • Responding to external changes
  • Reporting project progress

Project Review 

This service provides an independent review of an existing project with a view to establishing progress against schedule and cost, conformance with business objectives, quality benchmarks and potential project management requirements. We are also experienced in the production and management of software procedures and other system documentation.

Information Technology Interim Management

In cases where a substantial new systems initiative requires high-level management skills that are not in place, we provide interim IT management to support you until you are able to recruit the appropriate personnel.

Our interim managers are all highly experienced and are able to fulfil a variety of roles within your IT department, including managing teams, performing cost/benefit analyses of proposed IT initiatives and representing the IT team to both management and user communities. 

Consultancy in Action


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“Northdoor filled us with confidence from the very first meeting and have continued to live up to and exceed our expectations.”
Pret A Manger
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“Northdoor have firm beliefs about how business should be conducted and were able to ensure that top-level people worked on the project. Without their level of professionalism and dependability we...”
Managing Agency Partners Ltd (MAP)
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“I’ve lived though many big IT projects - they have always been harrowing experiences. Best case, the projects have taken years. Worst case, the project ends up cancelled after millions of pounds...”
Canada Life
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“Working with Northdoor to implement Echo² and the second System i5 solution has strengthened our confidence and provided a true high-availability environment at low cost. Amar Khan, IT Support Manager”
Tradex Insurance
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Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
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“Without an expert onsite you really have to trust your supplier's advice. There are many who will recommend the most elaborate solution rather than the best one for your business. Northdoor have...”
First Counsel & Barbara Houghton Associates
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“Northdoor don’t mess you about. Their support teams are very professional and very efficient. Tradex used to have to expend a great deal of time and effort in managing support. Now we don’t have...”
Tradex
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“Munich Re was aware that there could be considerable value for its clients in creating a solution to the administrative challenge, so the key requirement was for systems which are flexible and...”
Munich Re
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“We found Northdoor a very reliable company to work with, and very flexible in their approach. When a supplier has both technical know-how and the willingness to see the project through it's...”
Vapormatic
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“All too often IT suppliers agree to take on a project before they are sure they can deliver a solution. That’s not our experience of Northdoor. We’ve found them to be very pragmatic and honest in...”
Pret a Manger
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“All too often IT suppliers agree to take on a project before they are sure they can deliver a solution. That’s not our experience of Northdoor. We’ve found them to be very pragmatic and honest in...”
Pret a Manger
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“The Northdoor consultants provided excellent service throughout the engagement. BladeCenter is practically a data centre in itself, and Northdoor’s skill in setting up the technology was a major...”
DnB NOR Bank
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“Northdoor were awarded an European IT Excellence Award for the work they performed for us. They delivered our system working to specification against incredibly tight deadlines. Northdoor has...”
Ark Syndicate Managment Ltd
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“Through meeting with Northdoor staff and reviewing their tailored offering it was clear that they were a good choice. We were really looking for the best fit with our way of doing business: it is...”
Buzzacott
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“Northdoor have firm beliefs about how business should be conducted and were able to ensure that top-level people worked on the project. Without their level of professionalism and dependability we...”
Managing Agency Partners Ltd (MAP)
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““Our management, sales teams and partners requested a continual stream of reports to support their own particular business objectives. These requests were often high priority and placed considerable...”
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
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“The combination of an increase in business volumes, the growth of online mortgage applications and a desire to cut server maintenance and licensing costs called for a strategic rethink. Malcom Duff,...”
Platform Home Loans
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“One of the differences with Northdoor is that I’ve had a positive experience with all the staff I’ve worked with, and I think that really highlights the quality of the company as a whole.”
TQ3 Travel Solutions UK
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“Installing HA was very much a strategic decision for our company. We feel that the investment in iTERA HA is about more than just securing the data and the operations. It gives us free hands to take...”
Oliver Adams
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“Northdoor were awarded an European IT Excellence Award for the work they performed for us. They delivered our system working to specification against incredibly tight deadlines. Northdoor has...”
Ark Syndicate Management Ltd
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“I’ve lived though many big IT projects - they have always been harrowing experiences. Best case, the projects have taken years. Worst case, the project ends up cancelled after millions of pounds...”
Canada Life
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“Munich Re was aware that there could be considerable value for its clients in creating a solution to the administrative challenge, so the key requirement was for systems which are flexible and...”
Munich Re
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