Our Process

What Working With Intra Looks Like

Here's how we work with you to align, plan, and deliver results across every project.

From Kickoff to Completion

From kickoff to delivery, we work closely with your team to ensure every project hits its mark

Strategic Project Planning

From inception to completion, planning and scheduling are critical components of effective project management. Backed by the entire Intra Management Solutions team, our experienced experts establish pragmatic strategies that help clearly document how a project will be successfully executed, supervised, controlled, and completed.

Expert Team Integration

We have time-tested experience in seamlessly embedding our highly skilled people into your project team. Armed with up-to-date insights on standards and guidelines, our expert planners and schedulers help you save time, energy, and money throughout the life cycle of your next complex project.

Advanced Tools & Methodologies

In utilizing key tools for planning and scheduling—such as Gantt Charts, Critical Path Method, and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)—we bring advanced expertise to meet your team’s planning and scheduling needs.

IMS prioritizes long-term relationships, accessibility, and collaboration — treating every client engagement as a trusted partnership, not just a project.

Real-world planning and scheduling expertise for small and large-scale complex programs to keep projects on track, monitored, and successfully delivered. Enterprise-level program management solutions that align people, processes, and technology to maximize project performance and profitability.Enterprise-level program management solutions that align people, processes, and technology to maximize project performance and profitability.

IMS prioritizes long-term relationships, accessibility, and collaboration — treating every client engagement as a trusted partnership, not just a project.

Tailored Solutions Built Around Your Organization

Energy & Infrastructure

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.

Energy & Infrastructure

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.

Energy & Infrastructure

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.

Energy & Infrastructure

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.

Energy & Infrastructure

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.

We enable energy and infrastructure organizations to deliver capital-intensive projects with greater predictability and control. From planning and scheduling to project controls and risk management, we help teams reduce delays, improve coordination, and maximize project outcomes.
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Questions?
How can we tell if our Integrated Master Schedule is actually giving us an accurate picture of program performance?

A credible Integrated Master Schedule should do more than document dates—it should help your program team understand what is driving delivery, where milestones are at risk, and what actions can improve the outcome.

IMS helps government contractors develop, assess, and maintain logic-driven schedules that integrate milestones, dependencies, critical and near-critical paths, and cross-functional inputs. We also evaluate schedule health, identify emerging issues, and provide actionable recommendations to improve forecast accuracy and milestone predictability.

The goal is simple: turn the schedule from a reporting requirement into an early-warning and decision-support tool.

How can we make Earned Value Management more useful to program leadership—not just a compliance exercise?

Earned Value Management delivers the greatest value when cost, schedule, technical performance, and forecasting are viewed together. When those elements reside in disconnected systems or processes, EVM can become focused on monthly reporting rather than proactive program management.

IMS helps contractors establish and improve EVM processes, tools, baselines, forecasts, and system integrations so leadership can better understand cost and schedule performance, identify emerging variances, and evaluate likely outcomes at completion.

Our approach helps transform EVM data into management insight—giving program leaders better visibility into where performance is heading and where intervention may be required.

How do we know whether our staffing plan can actually support the program schedule?

A program schedule may appear executable until resource constraints are considered. Critical skill shortages, competing priorities, delayed hiring, or unrealistic labor assumptions can quickly translate into missed milestones and increased program costs.

IMS helps organizations connect resource requirements to program schedules and execution plans so leaders can better understand where staffing demand, available capacity, and scheduled work may be misaligned.

By integrating resource planning with schedule and program-controls data, contractors can identify future bottlenecks earlier, improve workforce forecasting, and answer a critical question:

Do we have the right people, with the right skills, available when the program needs them?

How can we identify program risks early enough to take action before they affect cost or schedule?

Traditional risk registers often identify potential issues without clearly showing how those risks could affect program milestones, costs, or completion dates.

IMS integrates risk analysis with program schedules and performance data to help teams understand not only what could go wrong, but what the program impact could be. Through schedule risk assessments, critical-path analysis, forecasting, and ongoing program-controls support, IMS helps identify emerging threats and evaluate potential mitigation or recovery strategies.

This gives program managers greater insight into which risks matter most, when they could affect the program, and where management attention should be focused.

How can leadership get one reliable view of program performance when our data is spread across multiple systems?

Government contractors often manage scheduling, cost, EVM, resources, risk, financials, and reporting through different systems. The challenge is not simply having data—it is connecting that data in a way that gives leadership a timely and consistent view of program performance.

IMS helps organizations integrate program management processes, systems, and data so that decision-makers can see the relationships among schedule performance, cost, resources, risk, and forecast outcomes.

Whether improving existing environments or integrating tools such as Primavera P6, Deltek Cobra, Open Plan, PM Compass, Microsoft Project, ERP systems, and financial systems, IMS focuses on creating actionable program intelligence rather than adding another layer of reporting.

The result is greater executive visibility into the questions that matter most:

Are we on plan? What is changing? What is at risk? What will it cost? And where should management act now?