After training the client's core group(s), YCA immediately facilitates the planning and control of selected projects by the project teams. YCA's primary role in this second phase of the Project Success Integrated SolutionSM is to provide mentoring and "hands-on" assistance to the teams and team leaders in:

1. Developing comprehensive project charters and plans,
2. Conducting periodic project control meetings, solving problems and updating the plan, and
3. Producing status reports.

Typically, YCA consultants provide the computers and project management software necessary to perform analyses and produce reports.

Project consulting provides:

• The transition from classroom learning to the application of YCA's project planning and control processes on current projects. This immediate transition is key to reinforcing and fine-tuning the team's understanding of the project management process, and it clearly communicates management's commitment to the disciplined application of project management.
• An opportunity for the organization to experience the effectiveness of a formal approach to project planning and control, and to build confidence in and commitment to the project management process. Initial successes provide a tangible return on the investment in training, and they build momentum/motivation to develop and fully implement the client's project management system.
• An opportunity for YCA consultants, while facilitating the project planning and control processes, to observe the nature of the projects performed by the client as well as the organizational and competitive environments within which projects are performed. This period of observation provides a very efficient transition into the design of the client's project management system.