The document discusses an automated project office tool called Computer Aid's Automated Management Interface (AMI) that provides visibility, governance, and control over projects. It allows organizations to track project data, status, and key metrics; manage projects and processes consistently; and provide reporting at various levels of the organization. The presentation demonstrates AMI's capabilities such as managing projects, tasks, and resources as well as its analytics and reporting features. It also discusses implementation options and next steps to set up and configure AMI for an organization.

1. Imagine the results if every one of your projects had
consistent, world-class quality assurance reviews

2. Agenda
 Introductions
 Background
 CAI Overview
 Product Overview
& Demonstration
 Next Steps
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3. Background
Resource constrained
– PMs serving dual role of PM and BA
(Research work on proposed projects)
Disciplined approach
– Specified process
– People with proper skills and experience
Visibility / Reporting
– Manually tracking progress/reporting
– Need better/automated means of providing
visibility
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4. CAI Overview
Legacy Application Support
Automated Project Office
Reduce Legacy Software
Support Costs by 30%
A Revolutionary
Breakthrough in
Project Management
Computer Aid's proprietary methods and
tools eliminates wasted IT effort while
optimizing control!
IT Metrics &
Productivity Institute
Thought Leadership
in IT Best Practices
Avoid project "surprises" and keep your
Computer Aid's IT Metrics &
organization focused on best practices.
Productivity Institute demonstrates
Our easy to implement and affordable tool
our ongoing leadership in IT Best
leverages your existing software
Practices and effective IT
investment
Management
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5. Representative Clients
Manufacturing
Retail
Financials
Insurance
Federal Government
Services
State Government
Transportation / Logistics
Utilities
Education
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6. Have you ever
encountered
these common
project problems
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7. Have your
project teams ever
unexpectedly
failed to deliver a
business-critical
initiative?
Challenge - Beginning to make mistakes
– Needed visibility of data, control of process consistency and optimization
of project learnings to Control | continuous improvement
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8. Do you have critical project data
and status at your fingertips?
Solution - Developed internal automated tool
- Automated Project Office (APO)
- Virtual implementation Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility
of Management by Walking Around
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9. Could you benefit from world-class
automated assessments of
your ongoing projects?
CAI Value - We achieved dramatic results
- Client Value – commercialization
- Reduced reporting effort by 20%
- Created AMI
- Reduced rework by 40% Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility
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10. The AMI Difference
Constant stream of
quantitative data…
…with subjective team
Feedback
Best practices, KPIs,
standard Processes…
…and management
Expertise
Identify risks, off track activities and
best practice Compliance
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11. Demonstration
1. Manage & track demand, Select Right Project
based on value and constraints
2. Report status of activities, get
my voice heard
3. Manage each project with key dashboard
metrics
4. Manage Processes from an organizational
point-of-view
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Click Here to Launch
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12. Next Steps
Define the lift to use AMI
– Project Server – setup,
programming, integration
– What is needed to configure
AMI / program interfaces
– What is need for on-going
administration
Define Scope to go live
– Contract, references,…
– Explore configuration /
customization needs
– Explore data connectivity needs
(Project Server, other…)
Implementation options
1.
2.
One year contract, 30-day out
60-day trial “out of the box”
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13. A method for
controlling and
automating the flow
of information
Role-based,
rule-based
How the team
communicates
status
Weekly electronic
checklists
Quick, weekly
assessment of
status
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14. So that information
can be made available
to teams, managers,
and executives…
Analytics of the
best managers
Instant and up-toProject
date view of KPIs
Detailed
by project
Drill-down
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15. Bringing the
qualities of the best
project managers to
every project
Drill into a single
project
Basic concept is to move:
From Predictiveautomated…
manual to
From occasional to prescribed
analytics
Complete
visibility
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16. Predictive
analytics
Organizational
analysis
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17. Post
implementation
reviews
Enables
continuous
improvement
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18. Who is on my
project and their
role(s)
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19. A place to
collaborate…
Attachments
A place to
collaborate…
Issues
A place to
collaborate…
Comments
A place to
collaborate…
Other data
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20. Detailed issues,
nothing slips
through
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21. Insight into the
portfolio plan
Requirements by
role & project
Complete view of
the workload
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22. Analytics to assist
with planning
the portfolio
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23. Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility
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