Project & program management

Hire an IT project manager in Greece and Cyprus

The client-side owner of a systems project: someone who understands the technology well enough to challenge the estimate, and the business well enough to know what go-live has to mean.

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Many Greek and Cypriot companies run their first ERP, core system replacement or cloud move with a local integrator, and nobody on the client side has done one before. An IT project manager owns the project from your side of the table. The usual signs one is needed:

The vendor runs the only plan, and the business signs off screens it has not tested
Change requests keep arriving and nobody inside can judge them
Go-live is booked but no one has written the cutover plan
The data migration has no owner on the client side

The IT project managers on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals from systems integrators and consultancies, former developers and analysts who moved into delivery, and PMO leads of banks and insurers. They have run implementations where a failed cutover stops the business, and they plan the fallback first.

What does an IT project manager actually do?

Fix the scope with the business before the vendor prices it
Judge the vendor's designs and estimates from the client's side
Plan around the key users, whose time the project needs most and gets least
Run user acceptance testing on real processes with real data
Plan cutover and hypercare in detail: data, sequence, fallback and who is in the room
Hand the system over with documentation and training the IT team can use

How to choose the right IT project manager

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

Has written a cutover plan
Can walk you through a cutover they ran: the sequence, the fallback point and who called go.
Testing decides go-live
Has postponed a go-live because user acceptance testing failed, and can say what was fixed first.
Protects the key users' time
Builds the plan around the hours the key users can really give, and has defended those hours with their managers.