For clients who have an internal PM or hybrid teams, EMC can provide selective support in specific project areas. If you are the client, here’s what you could ask EMC’s PM to take over or support you:

Project Planning

• Build or validate the project plan, WBS, timeline, and budget

• Define governance, resource loading, and key milestones
• Useful during pre-initiation or RFP responses

Project Management Office & Administration

• Schedule and moderate project meetings or workshops

• Coordinate between technical and business stakeholders
• Facilitate alignment meetings and escalate key issues
• Document meetings and track risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies
• Maintain version-controlled project documentation

• Prepare and distribute weekly reports and dashboards
• Ensure templates are used consistently (RAID logs, minutes, plans)
• Prepare project summaries, reports, and knowledge base articles
• Change Control Facilitation – coordinate process and approvals
• Regular reporting, steering committee packs, and dashboards

Vendor Coordination

• Interface with third-party vendors (e.g., test automation, infrastructure teams)
• Track deliverables, escalations, and technical dependencies
• Monitor SLA compliance and handover points

Test management

• Define the test strategy, prepare test plans and cases
• Coordinate regression, UAT, and integration testing
• Track defects, manage triage meetings, and report progress
• Coordinate between the various parties for test sign-offs

Training Coordination

• Organize end-user and power-user training sessions
• Liaise with trainers, track attendance, and gather feedback
• Develop training schedules and logistics
• Ensure training materials are reviewed and finalized

Cutover Planning & Go-Live Transition

• Create the cutover checklist, runbooks, and fallback procedures
• Coordinate deployment activities and go/no-go criteria
• Ensure alignment across vendors and stakeholders
• Organize hypercare shift planning and support triage tracking

• Define and manage transition to steady-state support
• Close out project documentation and lessons learned