Customized or standardized solutions - developed by our team of consultants, project managers, system architects and specialist planners

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Customized or standardized solutions - developed by our team of consultants, project managers, system architects and specialist planners

For the staffing of our projects, we draw on the wide-ranging knowledge of our consultants and network partners. This is how we ensure the best possible support for your project

Analyse

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"The more familiar and everyday a behavior is, the more problematic its analysis becomes."

Our aim is to examine problems with professionalism and expertise, but also with a critical distance.

In this way, we ensure the success of the project even before it starts. We bring all stakeholders to the table. The focus is on your goals, business processes and ideas for new solutions.

We also continue the analysis during the implementation phase. At every stage, we focus on ways to optimize workflows in order to refine existing concepts in a meaningful way.

Requirements analysis

  • Elicitation of requirements
  • Formulation according to agile or classic project approaches
  • Logically structured backlogs

Process analysis

  • Survey of existing and desired workflows
  • Modeling processes
  • Identifying potential for improvement

System analysis

  • Application of Enterprise Architecture Management tools
  • Recording the system architecture
  • Interlocking business capabilities with applications and services

ARD-aktuell

Solution for editorial collaboration with multimedia reorientation
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K-TV

Checking workflows and functional comparison with solution scenarios
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RBB

A look over the shoulder at the ARD/ZDF Mittagsmagazin
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Plan

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"Success only comes to you over the bridge of planning."

Based on the functional and technical requirements and the existing system landscape, we ensure that the appropriate solution architecture is created during the design planning phase and define the framework conditions for a successful implementation phase. If desired, we apply the principles and methods of agile approaches.

In procurement procedures, we provide support from the preparation of procurement documents to the evaluation of tenders.

Tendering

  • Coordination of the various departments (purchasing, legal and specialist departments)
  • Preparation of the technical tender documents (specifications, guidelines, glossaries)
  • Evaluation of tenders and documentation

Concept

  • Transferring the requirements into a solution concept within the framework of the technical and organizational conditions
  • Identifying opportunities for process optimization across departmental or divisional boundaries
  • Defining the framework conditions for realization

Product evaluation

  • Clarification of procedure and technical requirements
  • Weighting of requirements for the development of a criteria catalog
  • Market exploration with consideration of relevant solution providers
  • Carrying out laboratory tests with evaluation of different systems according to a standardized test procedure

ARD-Sternpunkt

New concept for agile project management and implementation of professional test management.
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NDA

Overall project management for the construction of a partially automated, flexible studio
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RBB

Location-independent video upload for mobile journalists
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Implement

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"Getting ahead of development to ensure its organic progression is the secret of all leadership."

We work with you to develop the basis for a successful implementation phase.

Thanks to our experience from a wide range of project management in the media and broadcast environment, we are your competent partner for this. This includes the renewal of playout infrastructures as well as the integration of complex workflows into system architectures.

Our certified project managers offer comprehensive support from the definition of objectives, framework conditions and risks to project organization and the planning of work packages. We use modern software tools such as Jira to orchestrate and monitor the development of work products.

A consistent focus on needs and challenges from the user’s perspective is important to us. If required, we support change management with customized communication and training concepts.

We develop suitable service processes for the transition to smooth regular operation.

Project management

  • Clarification of project objectives and framework conditions
  • Developing the project organization
  • Creating the risk analysis and the project structure plan
  • Controlling the project realization within the defined specifications for costs, deadlines and quality according to agile and classic methods
  • Project controlling and reporting according to customer specifications

Change management

  • Analysis of the transformation challenges in the context of changed technical conditions
  • Active involvement of affected employees and managers
  • Development of customized communication concepts

Service management

  • Development and coordination of a customized service catalog
  • Developing or adapting service processes and role cutting
  • Negotiating and agreeing service level agreements
  • Introduction of ITSM tools

BR

Project management for the introduction of a trimedial newsroom for the cooperation of television, radio and online
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NDA

Overall project management for the construction of a partially automated, flexible studio
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BR

Conversion to a TPEG-capable traffic editing system
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