Services

Consulting services are flexible and dependent on the specific client needs and consultant availability.

Service Categories

Various service options are available through our consulting services:

  • Time and materials: based on estimates for resources required for completion
  • Fixed price engagements: White papers, solution briefs, compliance control mappings, etc.
  • Staff augmentation: average number of hours per week, to fulfill a role for a specific period of time (e.g. marketing preparation for marketing launch, product release support by managing beta program, program management, etc.)

Project Areas

Firecracker PM, Inc. staffs client engagements with seasoned consultants who have proven success in the following areas:

  • Product Management
    • Product Strategy: Build, buy, partner; market/customer analysis; Market Requirements Documents (MRDs)
    • Product Definition: Validation and documentation of use cases, competitive pressures; Product Requirements Documents (PRDs)
    • Competitive analysis: based on documentation (web site, collateral), hands-on testing (depending on client securing access), and customer/field validation
    • RFP (Request for Proposal) boilerplate: Documentation of technology, products, benefits, features, use cases, licensing and other elements commonly asked in RFP responses
    • Regulatory compliance IT controls mapping (with IT vendor products): Using original regulation (PCI, FISMA, NERC, SOX, HIPAA, HITECH, GLBA, FERPA, etc) or universal controls (UCF, ISO 27001, CoBIT, etc.)
  • Product Marketing
    • Solution/product positioning, messaging documents, block copy
    • White papers, solution briefs, datasheets, presentations
    • Web site content updates
  • IT Management
    • Vendor/technology evaluations: Research, hands-on testing with IT team
    • Manage RFI/RFP process: issue template for response, identify customer’s key use cases and requirements, collect, analyze and rank responses, present to key stakeholders and make recommendation
  • Program/Project Management
    • Product Launch Support: Tracking critical paths, engaging with team resource, project plans, status reports