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Drive impactful initiatives forward with Toptal’s Project Management Services. Our expert project managers clarify priorities, streamline execution, and deliver measurable results with speed and precision.
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35,000+
Total Vetted Professionals
30,000+
Toptal Total Projects Delivered
85,000+
Years in Business
15+
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Our Services
Toptal Project Management Services
Our Project Management Services span the entire life cycle, from strategic planning and resource allocation to execution and delivery, ensuring your projects are on time, within budget, and aligned with your business goals.
Project Planning
Develop clear, actionable project plans that align objectives, scope, and timelines for successful delivery.
Agile Project Management
Apply Agile methodologies to increase adaptability, improve collaboration, and accelerate results.
Stakeholder Communication
Ensure effective communication across teams and stakeholders to maintain clarity and alignment.
Project Life-cycle Oversight
Oversee all project phases from initiation to completion for seamless and efficient execution.
Resource Management
Optimize resource allocation to maximize productivity, reduce bottlenecks, and meet project goals.
Risk Assessment
Identify potential risks early and implement strategies to mitigate challenges before they impact outcomes.
Budget Management
Control project costs with accurate forecasting, financial oversight, and proactive budget adjustments.
Quality Assurance
Maintain high standards by embedding quality checks throughout every project phase.
Workflow Optimization
Streamline project workflows to eliminate inefficiencies, enhance collaboration, and accelerate delivery.
Change Management
Guide project teams and stakeholders through transitions to ensure successful adoption and long-term impact.
Performance Tracking
Monitor progress with metrics and reporting tools to ensure projects stay on schedule and within scope.
Contract Management
Manage vendor contracts, SOWs, and deliverables to ensure compliance, accountability, and successful execution.
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How We Deliver Project Management Services
Our project management experts, with experience at leading companies, develop and deploy tailored solutions to meet your business needs and unique industry demands for sustainable results and long-term success.
1
Discover
A leader from our team works with you to understand your business challenges, pain points, and strategic goals to uncover new opportunities and identify the options to reach your objectives.
2
Define
Toptal leaders collaborate with your team to define your specific goals and service needs, evaluating multiple approaches and aligning requirements with your strategic objectives to define the best solution.
3
Develop
Once your service is defined and you have your talent or team on board, they will create your unique project timeline, process, and initial proposals, whether you’re planning complex initiatives or overseeing cross-functional execution.
4
Deploy
Toptal will get to work, tracking quality assurance, handling project management, and maintaining the delivery schedule.
Matthew McNaghten 
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice LeadAs Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
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Project Management Solutions That Deliver Value
Toptal delivers leading service name through its diverse talent network and flexible delivery models. We implement the right skills at each project phase, blending expertise from various roles for seamless execution.
- End-to-End Delivery by Toptal
- On-demand Talent and Teams
End-to-End Delivery by Toptal
Comprehensive project delivery, tailored to your specific requirements.
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
Delivery Manager
Agile Project Manager
Scrum Master
Senior Project Manager
Technical Project Manager
Agile Coach
Agile Technical Project Manager
Matthew McNaghten
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
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Experience
35+ Years
Rachael Karaffa
Delivery Manager
Rachael serves as a Delivery Manager at Toptal with a focus on leading diverse global teams in developing innovative solutions for our clients. She works across multiple disciplines, including technology, marketing, and management consulting. Rachael specializes in managing people and client relationships, process optimization, and driving teams toward optimal business outcomes.
Previously Managed Client
Experience
9+ Years
Antonia McCullough
Verified Expert in Project Management
26+ Years
of Experience
Agile Project Manager
Antonia is an experienced Agile project manager and coach, offering 26+ years of success leading all phases of technology projects. She’s planned and managed multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage, and bottom-line gains. As an expert in Agile methodology, she’s coached high-performing teams on self-organization through frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
Previously at
Roxana-Maria Grigore
Verified Expert in Project Management
19+ Years
of Experience
Scrum Master
Roxana has extensive experience with founders and new software product kick-off initiatives. She has 19+ years of expertise in the software development industry, including technical leadership and management roles, leading new product initiatives, and programming. In a previous Toptal engagement, Roxana supported a startup founder to launch a new product, assess the business viability, minimize risk, build the team, get excellent customer feedback, and secure a significant investment budget.
Previously at
Erita Skendaj
Verified Expert in Project Management
17+ Years
of Experience
Senior Project Manager
Erita is a certified project manager with more than 17 years of experience managing technical projects from initiation to deployment, following Agile or predictive approaches. She has expertise in software engineering and a strong interest in cloud, big data, and machine learning.
Previously at
Jenniffer Alvarez
Verified Expert in Project Management
11+ Years
of Experience
Technical Project Manager
Jenniffer is an engineer and project manager with more than 11 years of experience in the IT field, focusing on technical project management and DevOps adoption. She has a passion for helping customers achieve their goals. During her many years of experience, Jenniffer has worked as a project manager, program manager, and, most recently, as a technical project manager. She has extensive knowledge of how technology works and what makes a product successful.
Previously at
Luciano Rodrigues
Verified Expert in Project Management
20+ Years
of Experience
Agile Coach
Luciano has 20+ years of experience in the Internet market working as an interface designer, information architect, Agile project manager, and IT systems coordinator. He is skilled in nurturing customer relationships and effectively communicating to gather requirements and business understanding. Luciano is adept at leading teams and achieving goals within budget and time requirements.
Previously at
Tony Amos
Verified Expert in Project Management
20+ Years
of Experience
Agile Technical Project Manager
Tony is a seasoned Agile professional who started as a self-taught programmer in the US Navy. He had served in every role of the SDLC before bringing his software engineering passion to Agile project management. His technical skills, combined with his managerial, communication, and analytic abilities, have served him well while successfully guiding teams. Tony uses these talents and his development experience to lead by example while helping organizations create greater value through software.
Previously at
On-demand Talent and Teams
20,000+ vetted professionals, ready to deploy individually or in teams.
Agile Project Manager
Scrum Master
Transformation Manager
Agile Project Manager
Scrum Master
Agile Coach
Digital Transformation Expert
Project Manager
AI Transformation Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
50+ Years
of Experience
Agile Project Manager
With more than 50 years of engineering and product management experience, culminating in Agile project management, ownership, hiring, and leading UX and development teams, Charles has designed, built, and managed several leading software products. He has successfully led and united teams on a product direction from inception to end-of-life. Charles can work well within large companies and small teams or business transformations where one leads both product and culture.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Project Management
9+ Years
of Experience
Scrum Master
Ekaterina is a project manager following Agile methodology with a background in finance. She enjoys the complexity of a project manager's work, with its problem-solving, technical analysis, communication with the team and stakeholders, and the ever-changing nature of the work from project to project. Ekaterina favors the servant leadership approach with her team, as it helps the team to produce results at the top of their abilities while maintaining a comfortable work environment.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Project Management
27+ Years
of Experience
Transformation Manager
Michael is a seasoned program and project manager and transformation consultant with extensive experience in digital transformation, process optimization, automation, software development, and technology integration. He strategically navigates change and manages senior relationships within tier 1 banks, global blue-chip companies, and startups. He restructures troubled projects, solves problems, and devises operating models and Agile methodologies, fostering collaboration and long-term success.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Project Management
13+ Years
of Experience
Agile Project Manager
Erica is an agile project manager and product owner with more than a decade of experience. She has worked on a multitude of different topics and products. Erica is a quick learner with strong networking, communication, and organizational skills, and she loves working with international teams.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Project Management
16+ Years
of Experience
Scrum Master
With extensive expertise in engineering and project management, particularly within Agile methodologies, Mihaela excels in driving digital projects from discovery to production. Her leadership promotes team collaboration and exceeds client expectations.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Project Management
24+ Years
of Experience
Agile Coach
Morné is an experienced leader and enterprise Lean Agile coach. He has an outstanding track record of leading organizational transformation projects at Fortune 500, 200, and 50 companies. Morné also has extensive experience working in cross-cultural environments in the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Project Management
34+ Years
of Experience
Digital Transformation Expert
Alan is an international insurance digital transformation strategist and implementer, currently based in the US. He has helped some of the world’s largest insurers figure out how to respond to new technologies and changing customer demands, to the benefit of both their customers and themselves. Alan has delivered in multiple roles as a program director, change director, program manager, project manager, and Scrum master.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Project Management
27+ Years
of Experience
Project Manager
Anna is a blockchain project manager experienced in coordinating ground-up planning, design, implementation, and deployment looking for opportunities to help companies realize their ideas. With expertise in systems analysis and application development, she is skilled in Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and C/C++.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Project Management
28+ Years
of Experience
AI Transformation Manager
Avalon is recognized for his successful business, digital, Agile, and AI transformations, leveraging his considerable product, program, and project management experience. He is a certified MIT Artificial Intelligence Strategist, PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC), Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC), and Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM). He has outstanding power skills and the ability to align with all levels of an organization.
Previously at
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Toptal enhances project management efficiency with structured workflows for NFT game developer.
Challenge: The company was building a gaming experience that leveraged nonfungible tokens (NFT) as in-game assets and needed to enhance its development processes. Specifically, the company’s junior developers needed clear guidance to improve efficiency and meet deadlines.
Solution: Toptal introduced structured workflows and pipelines, implementing frameworks like unidirectional data flow to bring order and predictability to the development phases. Additionally, the team integrated project management tools such as Jira, enabling meticulous task tracking and enforcing Git flow methodologies to standardize version control practices.
Outcome: With structured workflows and Jira, Toptal enabled effective deadline tracking and milestone monitoring, facilitating swift decision-making and improving project timelines. The implemented frameworks also clarified team goals and roles, providing junior developers with clear guidance and fostering a professional environment for managing larger projects.
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