Project Management as a Service
PMOVA embeds a senior technical PM directly inside your organization — not a consultant who visits monthly, but a principal who attends your standups, owns your governance artifacts, and drives delivery alongside your engineering team from day one.
Every PMaaS engagement is scoped to your program's actual complexity: hardware/software co-design cycles, TRL gating, multi-stakeholder consortia, and funding-agency compliance requirements — all handled as first-class delivery constraints, not afterthoughts.
Engagement Models
Fractional PM
Senior PM leadership without a full-time headcount commitment. Designed for startups and scale-ups running one or two active programs — you get executive-grade delivery governance at a fraction of the cost of an internal hire.
Startups · Scale-ups · Seed to Series BFull-Time Embedded PM
A dedicated principal PM across your sprint cycles, stakeholder reviews, board reporting, and funding milestone gates. The PM attends your standups, owns your governance artifacts, and drives delivery alongside your engineering team.
Enterprise R&D · Funded Consortia · Scale-up to IPOProject Recovery
Rapid diagnostic and recovery for programs at risk of schedule slip, scope creep, or stakeholder misalignment. We identify root-cause delivery failure within the first week and stand up corrective governance before the next milestone gate.
Enterprise · Any team with a failing programWhat We Own
Each delivery area below is a standing responsibility — not a deliverable produced once and handed off.
Governance Execution
Milestone tracking, RAID logs, change control, and decision registers — maintained as living artifacts, not quarterly slide decks.
Technical Stakeholder Alignment
Translating engineering state into language that lands with executives, boards, and funding agencies — without information loss in either direction.
Agile and Hybrid Delivery
Sprint cadences, WBS decomposition, velocity tracking, and retrospectives calibrated to your team's actual workflow — not a textbook Agile prescription.
Risk and Dependency Management
Proactive identification, quantification, and mitigation of schedule, technical, and resource risks before they become escalations.
Cross-Functional Coordination
Hardware, software, firmware, research, regulatory, and business streams coordinated under a single delivery framework with clear ownership at every interface.
Reporting and Compliance Documentation
Investor decks, board reports, funding agency deliverables, and compliance documentation produced as natural outputs of the governance cadence — not extra work at the end of a sprint.
Who It's For
- Semiconductor and IC design teams scaling from prototype to tape-out
- AI/ML and data science groups managing parallel model development tracks
- R&D labs pursuing Mitacs, NSERC, IRAP, or Horizon Europe funding
- Quantum computing programs navigating hardware/software co-design complexity
- Enterprise engineering organizations recovering from delivery delays or PM leadership gaps
- Deep-tech startups preparing for Series A or Series B with investor-ready delivery governance
Onboarding in Under 2 Weeks
Every engagement starts with a structured two-week onboarding that produces actionable governance artifacts before the first deliverable is due.
Discovery
- Stakeholder interviews across engineering, product, and executive layers
- Existing artifact review — plans, risk logs, retrospectives, and meeting cadences
- Dependency and critical-path mapping
- Initial risk identification and prioritization
Governance Setup
- Milestone framework established with clear owners and acceptance criteria
- RAID log initialized with current risks, actions, issues, and decisions
- Communication plan and escalation matrix agreed with all stakeholders
- Sprint or delivery cadence running — first standup and review scheduled
Ready to embed a senior PM in your team?
Tell us about your program — technology domain, current team size, and the delivery challenge you're facing. We'll confirm fit and propose an engagement structure within 48 hours.