This document summarizes an article about how ERP systems can provide benefits for project-focused organizations. It discusses how traditional information systems are not well-suited for supporting project management. ERP systems designed specifically for project organizations can integrate project planning, budgeting, time/cost tracking, and resource planning. Research found organizations using integrated project/resource planning software had higher rates of on-time/on-budget project delivery and profitability. ERP systems allow real-time visibility across projects and resources to improve project management and resource allocation.
Creating project management reports is second nature to project managers. Extensive reporting capabilities are integral to robust project management practice. It enables wider reach of the strategic and tactical organizational initiatives. https://www.orangescrum.org/articles
Presentation given by Richard Corderoy from the Oakland Group on 29 July 2020.
Link to the news story:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/cutting-through-the-hype-how-to-use-advanced-analytics-to-do-practical-things-today-webinar/
Link to YouTube recording: https://youtu.be/OIsvCrFR5Uw
The document discusses resource management challenges and how Innotas helps address them. It describes how Innotas provides visibility into resource capacity and demand to improve project scheduling and resource utilization. It also allows organizations to efficiently assign work, understand resource availability, and ensure resources work on high priority projects. Innotas helps optimize resource allocation through predictive analytics and automated scenario modeling to improve planning.
Research performed by IFS North America on the increasing role of project management as an executive discipline in manufacturing. Also covers the importance of project management in returning to full productivity after the economic recovery.
Your Challenge
As the market evolves, capabilities that were once cutting edge become default and new functionality becomes differentiating.
Vendors use a lot of marketing jargon, buzzwords, and statistics to sell their solutions, making objective evaluation rather difficult.
The endpoint protection (EPP) market is overcrowded and fragmented, resulting in information overload and consequently, a difficult vendor assessment.
Disparate product solutions are being bundled into one-off solutions or suites, often resulting in less efficient solutions than the more niche players.
Imminent obsolescence is an issue. Previous EPP solutions have not adapted with the rapidly evolving threat landscape and are no longer relevant, resulting in breaches or vulnerabilities.
Critical Insight
Don’t let vendors and market reports define your endpoint protection needs. Identify the use cases and corresponding feature sets that best align with your risk profile before evaluating the vendor marketspace.
Your security controls are diminishing in value (if they haven’t already). Develop a strategy that accounts for the rapid evolution and imminent obsolescence of your endpoint controls. Plan for future needs when making purchasing decisions today.
Endpoint protection is a matter of defense in depth and risk modelling, there is no silver bullet protection and mitigation solution. As end-client-technology providers release regular product/software updates, security tools will become outdated. Multiyear endpoint protection commitments will leave you playing a constant game of catch up.
Impact and Result
The solution is a holistic internal security assessment that not only identifies, but satisfies, your desired endpoint protection feature set with the corresponding endpoint protection suite and a comprehensive implementation strategy.
Use this blueprint to walk through the steps of selecting and implementing an endpoint protection solution that best aligns with your organizational needs.
How to Reach Peak Performance With the Product Management Organizational Heal...Aggregage
The degree of maturity of your product management organization can directly drive your ability to satisfy customers and become more profitable. Our Product Management Organizational Health Checklist and on-demand webinar can help.
Plan-to-Hire: Automation and Reconciliation Workday, Inc.
Is your recruiting team spending too much time on manual workforce planning tasks? View this deck to learn how our latest product release automates the plan-to-hire workforce action to create open positions for and Workday Adaptive Planning and Workday Human Capital Management customers.
Creating project management reports is second nature to project managers. Extensive reporting capabilities are integral to robust project management practice. It enables wider reach of the strategic and tactical organizational initiatives. https://www.orangescrum.org/articles
Presentation given by Richard Corderoy from the Oakland Group on 29 July 2020.
Link to the news story:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/cutting-through-the-hype-how-to-use-advanced-analytics-to-do-practical-things-today-webinar/
Link to YouTube recording: https://youtu.be/OIsvCrFR5Uw
The document discusses resource management challenges and how Innotas helps address them. It describes how Innotas provides visibility into resource capacity and demand to improve project scheduling and resource utilization. It also allows organizations to efficiently assign work, understand resource availability, and ensure resources work on high priority projects. Innotas helps optimize resource allocation through predictive analytics and automated scenario modeling to improve planning.
Research performed by IFS North America on the increasing role of project management as an executive discipline in manufacturing. Also covers the importance of project management in returning to full productivity after the economic recovery.
Your Challenge
As the market evolves, capabilities that were once cutting edge become default and new functionality becomes differentiating.
Vendors use a lot of marketing jargon, buzzwords, and statistics to sell their solutions, making objective evaluation rather difficult.
The endpoint protection (EPP) market is overcrowded and fragmented, resulting in information overload and consequently, a difficult vendor assessment.
Disparate product solutions are being bundled into one-off solutions or suites, often resulting in less efficient solutions than the more niche players.
Imminent obsolescence is an issue. Previous EPP solutions have not adapted with the rapidly evolving threat landscape and are no longer relevant, resulting in breaches or vulnerabilities.
Critical Insight
Don’t let vendors and market reports define your endpoint protection needs. Identify the use cases and corresponding feature sets that best align with your risk profile before evaluating the vendor marketspace.
Your security controls are diminishing in value (if they haven’t already). Develop a strategy that accounts for the rapid evolution and imminent obsolescence of your endpoint controls. Plan for future needs when making purchasing decisions today.
Endpoint protection is a matter of defense in depth and risk modelling, there is no silver bullet protection and mitigation solution. As end-client-technology providers release regular product/software updates, security tools will become outdated. Multiyear endpoint protection commitments will leave you playing a constant game of catch up.
Impact and Result
The solution is a holistic internal security assessment that not only identifies, but satisfies, your desired endpoint protection feature set with the corresponding endpoint protection suite and a comprehensive implementation strategy.
Use this blueprint to walk through the steps of selecting and implementing an endpoint protection solution that best aligns with your organizational needs.
How to Reach Peak Performance With the Product Management Organizational Heal...Aggregage
The degree of maturity of your product management organization can directly drive your ability to satisfy customers and become more profitable. Our Product Management Organizational Health Checklist and on-demand webinar can help.
Plan-to-Hire: Automation and Reconciliation Workday, Inc.
Is your recruiting team spending too much time on manual workforce planning tasks? View this deck to learn how our latest product release automates the plan-to-hire workforce action to create open positions for and Workday Adaptive Planning and Workday Human Capital Management customers.
Service Delivery: When is the Right Time to Deploy Your AIAggregage
There’s no mistake about it: AI is on the rise. 70% of business decision-makers, information management professionals, and IT experts say that employees focus on more meaningful work with AI compared to those without it. The big buzz is around Artificial Intelligence, and how it can help information management and IT service delivery teams crush their goals. Decision-makers have been experimenting with Artificial Intelligence in smaller groups and have started adopting AI into mainstream environments in their organizations.
You may have this question in your mind - ‘Is this the right time for deploying AI?' Join our experts for this insightful webinar where members from our team will also be available to answer your questions so you can walk away feeling confident in how AI & automation can empower your organization’s service management overall.
During this webinar you will learn how:
• Service management is meeting up with present requirements and helping us look into the future
• Service delivery is supporting the current crisis and identifying opportunities for future improvement
• Top key considerations are easing digital transformation with AI
Customers in information management and IT that have used AI for their success
View this webinars page here: https://bit.ly/2Xiamma !
How to make data-driven interactive PowerPoint presentations for operationsGramener
Interactive data-driven presentations are a new way of presenting data. They allow the presenter and the audience to engage actively and drill into the data within PowerPoint.
Author: S. Anand - CEO, Gramener
Check out the full webinar on the topic: https://info.gramener.com/interactive-powerpoint-for-operations
How Airport and Transit Authorities Respond to ChangeWorkday, Inc.
This document discusses how airport and transit authorities are responding to change with agile technology. It includes presentations from the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority, Port of Seattle, and Avaap on their experiences implementing Workday software to improve operations, workforce experience, and planning. The pandemic significantly impacted travel but these organizations leveraged Workday's flexibility to enable remote work and adapt processes like COVID-19 pay codes. Moving forward, they will focus on digital transformation, workforce development, and community investments.
The Bottom Line on Agility: Bringing FP&A and Accounting Together to Drive Tr...Workday, Inc.
Today, FP&A needs to do more than just protect the bottom line—it needs to uncover and flawlessly execute opportunities for improvement. Traditionally, FP&A and Accounting work together once the books are closed to begin planning. But this takes time, which can result in stale data and make it hard to drive strategic changes, such as acquisitions or new product launches.
All Hands on Deck: Leveraging IT Relationships to Build ResilienceWorkday, Inc.
When it comes to navigating change, a good relationship between IT and finance is critical. Now, it’s more important than ever.
View this deck with Ventana Research and SMB Group to explore the opportunities available when you adapt to change—building strong relationships, leveraging technology, and improving business across the board.
Data-Driven Software Engineering for Agile TeamsTechWell
Remember the old days when software engineering teams used to tune software until it passed quality gates, gave golden bits to marketing, and finally threw a big release party? The world was simple, and writing code that worked according to a specification was enough to be a star developer. Viktor Veis says that world has changed. Software now often dials back home to record information about its usage and health. This telemetry flows back to engineering teams who are accountable for making sense out of this data. This is a fundamental shift in the software engineer role. Teams who can leverage data-driven engineering will delight customers by learning more about customers than they know about themselves. Teams who ignore data-driven engineering will continue based on assumptions and eventually lose competitive nerve. Join Viktor to learn how to start data-driven engineering today. Discover a practical approach that sometimes deviates from classical data science but is easy to learn and apply.
Software Metrics: Taking the Guesswork Out of Software ProjectsTechWell
Why bother with measurement and metrics? If you never use the data you collect, this is a valid question—and the answer is “Don’t bother, it’s a waste of time.” In that case, you’ll manage with opinions, personalities, and guesses—or even worse, misconceptions and misunderstandings. Based on his more than forty years of software and systems development experience, Ed Weller describes reasons for measurement, key measures in both traditional and agile environments, decisions enabled by measurement, and lessons learned from successful—and not so successful—measurement programs. Find out how to develop and maintain consistent data and valid measures so you can estimate reliably, deliver products with known quality, and have happy users and customers—the ultimate trailing indicator. Learn to manage projects dynamically with the support of current metrics and data from past projects to guide your management planning and control. Join Ed to explore how to invest in measurements that provide leading indicators to help you meet your company and customer goals.
Navigating the Workday Analytics and Reporting EcosystemWorkday, Inc.
Learn how to maximize the reporting and analytics capability in Workday for finance and HR teams. This slide deck dives into the functionality of Workday Prism Analytics and Workday People Analytics.
This document promotes Orgzit, a project management software. It discusses how Orgzit allows businesses to organize projects, collaborate with teams and clients, and analyze project progress. Key features highlighted include task management, communication tools, reporting, and customization options. Customer testimonials praise Orgzit for its ease of use, ability to handle multiple business needs, and quick implementation time. The document encourages scheduling a free consultation call to understand how Orgzit can help drive business growth.
6 Steps to Confirm Successful Workday DeploymentZaranTech LLC
Workday HCM Training & Certification provided Online from USA industry expert trainers with real time project experience
Workday HCM Tutorial for Beginners | Learn Workday HCM Online | Workday HCM training - This is a video recording of a Live Webinar presentation by our Sr. SAP Solution Architect and trainer who is also a Manager in handling SAP Implementation projects.
Get More Free Videos - Subscribe ➜ https://goo.gl/5ZqDML
COURSE PAGE: https://www.zarantech.com/workday-hcm-training/
REGISTER FOR FREE LIVE DEMO: http://promo.zarantech.com/free-webinar-workday-hcm/
CONTACT: +1 (515) 309-7846 (or) Email - info@zarantech.com
"workday hcm tutorial"
"free workday hcm training"
"online workday hcm training"
"Best workday hcm training"
"workday hcm training for Beginners"
"Best workday hcm Training"
Reviews / Testimonials from past trainees are saying: https://goo.gl/ZVfnE4
Refer your friends to ZaranTech - http://www.zarantech.com/be-a-friend-tell-a-friend.
Top 5 Considerations When Choosing a New HCM VendorAggregage
If you find enough companies who have succeeded and work backward to understand how each of those companies achieved that success, you start to notice that the things they considered along the path to that success are often the same. Join Patrick Sayers, president of Newcastle Research, to learn about some of the most important things successful companies consider on the path to a successful HR technology strategy.
At SmartERP, we realize that every organization is different with a unique set of requirements. You depend on your PeopleSoft applications to manage many facets of your business. When contemplating how to improve your PeopleSoft system to meet your continually changing business requirements, there are three potential options: Cloud, Edge, or Replace. These are all great options that will not only make your working life easier; it will save you time and money. Learn more about updating your PeopleSoft in this webinar on-demand (slides) - see smarterp.com webinars on-demand for the recording of the webinar.
Mapping Your Planning Journey with Adaptive InsightsWorkday, Inc.
This document provides an overview of Adaptive Insights' financial and workforce planning solutions and the customer journey for implementing them. It discusses how Adaptive Insights can help organizations improve planning processes, increase collaboration, accelerate planning cycles, and provide more strategic insights. The customer journey is broken into phases focusing initially on processes, people, and basic models before expanding to include more advanced modeling, additional data sources, and broader organizational usage. Demo examples are provided of customers who realized increased efficiency, faster planning cycles, and better visibility through their Adaptive Insights implementation.
This document provides information from Info-Tech Research Group regarding modernizing communications and collaboration infrastructure.
[1] It recommends following a three phase methodology to modernize communications - assess current infrastructure, define the target state, and advance the project. Various tools and templates are provided to help with each phase.
[2] It emphasizes that the project scope and assessment phase takes more time than anticipated and is critical for defining requirements. Both business and IT perspectives should be considered.
[3] A hybrid deployment model combining on-premises and cloud solutions is recommended to modernize infrastructure over time without requiring a full replacement of existing systems.
Future of Document Management Day in BelgiumJohn Newton
Speculations on the future of document management 10 years into the future. What will drive the management of documents, information and business processes? What are the implications for European organizations and businesses? What will really break the Productivity Gap? Presented at the Amplexor Future of Document Management Day.
Are your frontline managers spending too many hours manually reviewing timesheets and payroll entries? In this slide deck, learn how Workday leverages machine learning to enable managers and payroll administrators to streamline these labor-intensive tasks—freeing up their time for more strategic, value-added work.
PMA’s Core Traits of a Reliable Schedule and NetPoint Schedule Analytics represent our contributions to date, aimed at improving plan and schedule quality in the AEC industry. Factors contributing to the state of scheduling today include; tension of current Total Float ownership principles, complex projects and sophisticated scheduling tools, and that greater activity detail leads to more accurate schedules.
The key findings of a research study from Digital Enterprise Journal are summarized as follows:
1) The study was based on insights from over 800 organizations and identified key goals and challenges of engineering teams. 2) Top goals included streamlining debugging, aligning work with business goals, and improving systems resilience. Top challenges included time spent on non-contributing tasks and lack of actionable data. 3) The study defined top performing organizations and found they were more likely to view engineering as revenue-generating and had better performance metrics than other organizations.
This document discusses modern project management trends, including:
1. Projects are increasingly global with dispersed teams across different time zones and cultures, challenging project managers. New communication tools help facilitate collaboration.
2. Projects are becoming smaller in size due to cloud computing and shadow IT. This increases the total number of projects to manage while integrating diverse technologies.
3. Cloud-based project management tools provide a centralized place for tracking progress, enabling collaboration between dispersed teams. This facilitates management of distributed global projects.
4. Outsourcing project management services is increasing but brings challenges around responsibilities and commercial negotiations that sometimes require the client to intervene.
The document discusses the concept of enterprise project performance (EPP) and its importance for organizations in the capital projects industry. EPP refers to improving project outcomes and business objectives across all projects in an organization through integrated processes and a single software platform. The capital projects landscape is changing rapidly due to workforce shifts, industry growth, new technologies and increasing project complexity. EPP can help organizations navigate these changes by providing greater efficiency, predictability, and control over all projects through standardized processes and real-time access to project data. Key benefits of EPP include reduced costs, improved decision making, and maximizing returns on project investments.
Service Delivery: When is the Right Time to Deploy Your AIAggregage
There’s no mistake about it: AI is on the rise. 70% of business decision-makers, information management professionals, and IT experts say that employees focus on more meaningful work with AI compared to those without it. The big buzz is around Artificial Intelligence, and how it can help information management and IT service delivery teams crush their goals. Decision-makers have been experimenting with Artificial Intelligence in smaller groups and have started adopting AI into mainstream environments in their organizations.
You may have this question in your mind - ‘Is this the right time for deploying AI?' Join our experts for this insightful webinar where members from our team will also be available to answer your questions so you can walk away feeling confident in how AI & automation can empower your organization’s service management overall.
During this webinar you will learn how:
• Service management is meeting up with present requirements and helping us look into the future
• Service delivery is supporting the current crisis and identifying opportunities for future improvement
• Top key considerations are easing digital transformation with AI
Customers in information management and IT that have used AI for their success
View this webinars page here: https://bit.ly/2Xiamma !
How to make data-driven interactive PowerPoint presentations for operationsGramener
Interactive data-driven presentations are a new way of presenting data. They allow the presenter and the audience to engage actively and drill into the data within PowerPoint.
Author: S. Anand - CEO, Gramener
Check out the full webinar on the topic: https://info.gramener.com/interactive-powerpoint-for-operations
How Airport and Transit Authorities Respond to ChangeWorkday, Inc.
This document discusses how airport and transit authorities are responding to change with agile technology. It includes presentations from the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority, Port of Seattle, and Avaap on their experiences implementing Workday software to improve operations, workforce experience, and planning. The pandemic significantly impacted travel but these organizations leveraged Workday's flexibility to enable remote work and adapt processes like COVID-19 pay codes. Moving forward, they will focus on digital transformation, workforce development, and community investments.
The Bottom Line on Agility: Bringing FP&A and Accounting Together to Drive Tr...Workday, Inc.
Today, FP&A needs to do more than just protect the bottom line—it needs to uncover and flawlessly execute opportunities for improvement. Traditionally, FP&A and Accounting work together once the books are closed to begin planning. But this takes time, which can result in stale data and make it hard to drive strategic changes, such as acquisitions or new product launches.
All Hands on Deck: Leveraging IT Relationships to Build ResilienceWorkday, Inc.
When it comes to navigating change, a good relationship between IT and finance is critical. Now, it’s more important than ever.
View this deck with Ventana Research and SMB Group to explore the opportunities available when you adapt to change—building strong relationships, leveraging technology, and improving business across the board.
Data-Driven Software Engineering for Agile TeamsTechWell
Remember the old days when software engineering teams used to tune software until it passed quality gates, gave golden bits to marketing, and finally threw a big release party? The world was simple, and writing code that worked according to a specification was enough to be a star developer. Viktor Veis says that world has changed. Software now often dials back home to record information about its usage and health. This telemetry flows back to engineering teams who are accountable for making sense out of this data. This is a fundamental shift in the software engineer role. Teams who can leverage data-driven engineering will delight customers by learning more about customers than they know about themselves. Teams who ignore data-driven engineering will continue based on assumptions and eventually lose competitive nerve. Join Viktor to learn how to start data-driven engineering today. Discover a practical approach that sometimes deviates from classical data science but is easy to learn and apply.
Software Metrics: Taking the Guesswork Out of Software ProjectsTechWell
Why bother with measurement and metrics? If you never use the data you collect, this is a valid question—and the answer is “Don’t bother, it’s a waste of time.” In that case, you’ll manage with opinions, personalities, and guesses—or even worse, misconceptions and misunderstandings. Based on his more than forty years of software and systems development experience, Ed Weller describes reasons for measurement, key measures in both traditional and agile environments, decisions enabled by measurement, and lessons learned from successful—and not so successful—measurement programs. Find out how to develop and maintain consistent data and valid measures so you can estimate reliably, deliver products with known quality, and have happy users and customers—the ultimate trailing indicator. Learn to manage projects dynamically with the support of current metrics and data from past projects to guide your management planning and control. Join Ed to explore how to invest in measurements that provide leading indicators to help you meet your company and customer goals.
Navigating the Workday Analytics and Reporting EcosystemWorkday, Inc.
Learn how to maximize the reporting and analytics capability in Workday for finance and HR teams. This slide deck dives into the functionality of Workday Prism Analytics and Workday People Analytics.
This document promotes Orgzit, a project management software. It discusses how Orgzit allows businesses to organize projects, collaborate with teams and clients, and analyze project progress. Key features highlighted include task management, communication tools, reporting, and customization options. Customer testimonials praise Orgzit for its ease of use, ability to handle multiple business needs, and quick implementation time. The document encourages scheduling a free consultation call to understand how Orgzit can help drive business growth.
6 Steps to Confirm Successful Workday DeploymentZaranTech LLC
Workday HCM Training & Certification provided Online from USA industry expert trainers with real time project experience
Workday HCM Tutorial for Beginners | Learn Workday HCM Online | Workday HCM training - This is a video recording of a Live Webinar presentation by our Sr. SAP Solution Architect and trainer who is also a Manager in handling SAP Implementation projects.
Get More Free Videos - Subscribe ➜ https://goo.gl/5ZqDML
COURSE PAGE: https://www.zarantech.com/workday-hcm-training/
REGISTER FOR FREE LIVE DEMO: http://promo.zarantech.com/free-webinar-workday-hcm/
CONTACT: +1 (515) 309-7846 (or) Email - info@zarantech.com
"workday hcm tutorial"
"free workday hcm training"
"online workday hcm training"
"Best workday hcm training"
"workday hcm training for Beginners"
"Best workday hcm Training"
Reviews / Testimonials from past trainees are saying: https://goo.gl/ZVfnE4
Refer your friends to ZaranTech - http://www.zarantech.com/be-a-friend-tell-a-friend.
Top 5 Considerations When Choosing a New HCM VendorAggregage
If you find enough companies who have succeeded and work backward to understand how each of those companies achieved that success, you start to notice that the things they considered along the path to that success are often the same. Join Patrick Sayers, president of Newcastle Research, to learn about some of the most important things successful companies consider on the path to a successful HR technology strategy.
At SmartERP, we realize that every organization is different with a unique set of requirements. You depend on your PeopleSoft applications to manage many facets of your business. When contemplating how to improve your PeopleSoft system to meet your continually changing business requirements, there are three potential options: Cloud, Edge, or Replace. These are all great options that will not only make your working life easier; it will save you time and money. Learn more about updating your PeopleSoft in this webinar on-demand (slides) - see smarterp.com webinars on-demand for the recording of the webinar.
Mapping Your Planning Journey with Adaptive InsightsWorkday, Inc.
This document provides an overview of Adaptive Insights' financial and workforce planning solutions and the customer journey for implementing them. It discusses how Adaptive Insights can help organizations improve planning processes, increase collaboration, accelerate planning cycles, and provide more strategic insights. The customer journey is broken into phases focusing initially on processes, people, and basic models before expanding to include more advanced modeling, additional data sources, and broader organizational usage. Demo examples are provided of customers who realized increased efficiency, faster planning cycles, and better visibility through their Adaptive Insights implementation.
This document provides information from Info-Tech Research Group regarding modernizing communications and collaboration infrastructure.
[1] It recommends following a three phase methodology to modernize communications - assess current infrastructure, define the target state, and advance the project. Various tools and templates are provided to help with each phase.
[2] It emphasizes that the project scope and assessment phase takes more time than anticipated and is critical for defining requirements. Both business and IT perspectives should be considered.
[3] A hybrid deployment model combining on-premises and cloud solutions is recommended to modernize infrastructure over time without requiring a full replacement of existing systems.
Future of Document Management Day in BelgiumJohn Newton
Speculations on the future of document management 10 years into the future. What will drive the management of documents, information and business processes? What are the implications for European organizations and businesses? What will really break the Productivity Gap? Presented at the Amplexor Future of Document Management Day.
Are your frontline managers spending too many hours manually reviewing timesheets and payroll entries? In this slide deck, learn how Workday leverages machine learning to enable managers and payroll administrators to streamline these labor-intensive tasks—freeing up their time for more strategic, value-added work.
PMA’s Core Traits of a Reliable Schedule and NetPoint Schedule Analytics represent our contributions to date, aimed at improving plan and schedule quality in the AEC industry. Factors contributing to the state of scheduling today include; tension of current Total Float ownership principles, complex projects and sophisticated scheduling tools, and that greater activity detail leads to more accurate schedules.
The key findings of a research study from Digital Enterprise Journal are summarized as follows:
1) The study was based on insights from over 800 organizations and identified key goals and challenges of engineering teams. 2) Top goals included streamlining debugging, aligning work with business goals, and improving systems resilience. Top challenges included time spent on non-contributing tasks and lack of actionable data. 3) The study defined top performing organizations and found they were more likely to view engineering as revenue-generating and had better performance metrics than other organizations.
This document discusses modern project management trends, including:
1. Projects are increasingly global with dispersed teams across different time zones and cultures, challenging project managers. New communication tools help facilitate collaboration.
2. Projects are becoming smaller in size due to cloud computing and shadow IT. This increases the total number of projects to manage while integrating diverse technologies.
3. Cloud-based project management tools provide a centralized place for tracking progress, enabling collaboration between dispersed teams. This facilitates management of distributed global projects.
4. Outsourcing project management services is increasing but brings challenges around responsibilities and commercial negotiations that sometimes require the client to intervene.
The document discusses the concept of enterprise project performance (EPP) and its importance for organizations in the capital projects industry. EPP refers to improving project outcomes and business objectives across all projects in an organization through integrated processes and a single software platform. The capital projects landscape is changing rapidly due to workforce shifts, industry growth, new technologies and increasing project complexity. EPP can help organizations navigate these changes by providing greater efficiency, predictability, and control over all projects through standardized processes and real-time access to project data. Key benefits of EPP include reduced costs, improved decision making, and maximizing returns on project investments.
Why Organizations Need Enterprise Project Management SoftwareOrangescrum
An enterprise project management software increases the trust factor between the organization and keeps everyone engaged right from the CXOs to the interns.
HP Project and Portfolio Management Center is an integral part of managing the complete application lifecycle.
Gain visibility and insight into all your application investments.
A Project Management Information System (PMIS) is a framework that measures a project's success rate and provides information to monitor and control the project. A PMIS brings relevant information to management in a timely manner to aid decision making and ensure a project stays on track per its objectives, timetable, and budget. It must identify needed information and compare the current state to goals to enable corrective actions. Project management software offers tools to collaborate, share documents, manage costs and risks, and report on projects, but can also complicate simple projects and over-reliance on automated alerts. An organization must evaluate its needs before selecting software to ensure a good fit.
A Project Management Information System (PMIS) is a framework that measures a project's success rate and provides information to monitor and control the project. A PMIS brings relevant information to management in a timely manner to aid decision making and ensure a project stays on track per its objectives. It must identify needed information and compare the current state to goals to enable corrective actions. Project management software provides tools to collaborate, share documents, manage costs and risks, and report on projects, but can also complicate simple projects and over-reliance on automated alerts. An organization must evaluate its needs and use cases to determine if software fits its requirements and provides more benefits than drawbacks.
The document discusses how new trends in technology and business demands are transforming application development and requiring improved application lifecycle management (ALM). It describes HP's approach to ALM, which includes strategic planning, application delivery, operations, and retirement using HP Project and Portfolio Management Center integrated with other HP solutions. The document provides an example of how Virgin Media used HP PPM Center to gain visibility and control over projects, reduce silos, and improve resource management across the application lifecycle.
Guide to better Project Management from SeveraSevera PSA
Top 10 list of project management tips to curb on project failure, reduce spending in project-based organizations and improve productivity. A must read for all project managers in a professional services firm.
Bridging the cost schedule divide - integrating primavera and cost systems wh...p6academy
This document discusses integrating project cost and schedule data by bridging the divide between these two types of systems. It begins by outlining the challenges faced when managing costs separately from schedules in disparate systems like Primavera and ERP programs. Common problems include relying on error-prone excel spreadsheets and a lack of standardized processes. The document then presents the components of successful "best practice" cost control systems, including centralized cost data repositories, standardized structures balanced with flexibility, integrated lifecycle processes, automated data integration, easy-to-use software, and powerful reporting. Finally, it provides examples from Babcock & Wilcox and Technip of implementing integrated systems that generate earned value metrics and forecasts to improve project visibility,
It is a tool to automate PM processes starting with scheduling, resource management, document management, procurement to invoicing and customer satisfaction
It is a collaborative tool that can bring all the project stakeholders on the same page and can help them achieve project objectives as a team
It is generally integrated with existing IT landscape to push and pull the required data to be able to give a one window visibility into all the aspects of the project
It shows required dashboards and reports to different types of stakeholders for better insights and decision making
Some of the tasks the software does are listed below:
Defining the project
Planning the project
Allocating resources to the project
Timing the project
Following, Reporting and Controlling
Producing the result.
http://www.productdossier.com/ provides Touchbase state of the art Project Management Software
The Common Goals of Enterprise Project Management SoftwareOrangescrum
The document discusses the common goals of enterprise project management (EPM). EPM aims to align projects strategically with business goals, manage resources and demands effectively across departments, and provide centralized tracking, reporting and standardization at an enterprise level. Some key benefits of EPM include more projects delivered on time and on budget, better strategic alignment, greater leadership buy-in, better resource utilization, and more efficient project delivery.
SAP Business One for Project Management is the ideal choice for project driven companies. It enables project based coordination between project planning, materials, capacity and resource utilisation, ensuring that projects remain on time and within budget.
5 Key Elements of IT Project ManagementOrangescrum
The wide range of project management, productivity, collaboration and time tracking tools in the market are testimony to it. Providing the teams with a centralized collaborative platform motivates them to deliver faster and with quality. https://blog.orangescrum.com/
How Self-hosted Project Management Software Can Reduce Business Operational C...Orangescrum
Businesses can reduce costs by using self-hosted project management software that allows entire organizations to collaborate on a single platform. This centralized tracking of all projects and initiatives enables real-time progress monitoring, timely identification of issues or non-performing projects, and more efficient use of resources. It also eliminates costs associated with multiple disconnected tools and licenses by bringing teams together on a single solution.
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1. deltek.com1
Article
ERP for project-focused
organizations
By Henk Jan Onstwedder, Managing Director, Deltek Benelux
Many service provider organizations that carry out projects still have problems with
the allocation of people and resources across project and line activities. People are
loaded more than one hundred percent because the organization cannot manage
to make up-to-the-minute information available by department, subsidiary or
country. At the same time there is no real-time view of costs and progress. This is
a way of working which is obviously unsatisfactory for companies which run many
different projects with employees with different backgrounds, and who need to
be drawn from different parts of the company. An integrated project and resource
planning tool is therefore a ‘must’, if a project-focused organization wants to be
successful. Software support can help here.
In 2010 the Aberdeen Group published the results of research1
into the success factors for projects in the professional services
sector. The research organization interviewed representatives
of 315 organizations about their project results and to what
extent they make use of project management software. On
the basis of the results of that research, the Aberdeen Group
identified a number of characteristics of those organizations
which performed above average in the area of projects.
These ‘best in class’ organizations succeeded in delivering
91 percent of projects on-time or earlier, and completed 96
percent of projects within budget. For the projects which were
not completed within budget, the average overrun was seven
percent. These organizations also saw an annual increase of 37
percent in the profitability of their projects.
1 Delivering Project Profitability, on time and under budget, Cindy Jutras,
Nuris Ismail, 2010.
Success factors
The Aberdeen Group researchers found that almost three
quarters of the successful organizations used software to
integrate project and resource planning. For 57 percent of
these organizations these solutions had been shifted from
the desktop (read: Excel) to the level of the organization
as a whole. In addition, 53 percent of the organizations had
themselves defined and documented best practices for project
management. These figures show therefore that there is added
value to be gained from using a company-wide application for
planning, scheduling, management and reporting and cost-
price calculation. And that is exactly the scope of Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) for project-focused organizations.
2. deltek.com2
Article
ERP for Project-Focused Organizations
Added value
Traditional company information systems are primarily focused
on the organization’s production and logistics activities, which
work with physical products. Software systems are used to
support such areas as production planning, routing of raw
materials, semi-finished goods and finished goods, bill of
materials and MRP calculations for materials requirements.
These solutions are much less suitable for supporting
project-driven organizations in their project management.
Therefore, over the last few years, systems have come onto
the market which are specifically developed for this sector
with comparable functionality to support the whole project
cycle. Examples of this functionality are: support for project
structures (WBS), project budgeting, time and cost registration,
determining WIP positions for projects and project and
resource planning which are fully integrated with the financial
management of the organization.
Integration potentially adds value at each stage of a
project, and starts at the client acquisition stage. Every project
organization knows the importance of good budgeting when
bidding. But there are few organizations that make use of the
knowledge that they gained previously in this area. An ERP
system specifically for project support helps here, by making
previous budgets and actual data available. In addition it is an
excellent tool for creating precise and realistic budgets.
Implementation
In many companies there is a clear split between the acquisition
and the implementation of a project. In many cases the finance
department has to create a project after it is acquired, before
staff can book time and costs to it. In some organizations,
days, and sometimes even weeks, are lost here. This is both
undesirable and unnecessary, because with an integrated
system it can be done quite literally with one press of a button.
All information has already been collected and described
anyway during the client acquisition process, so it is simple
to convert it to a concrete project plan, including its budget,
project phases and other relevant data. This not only saves
time, but also reduces the risk of error which is inevitably
involved in non-integrated information systems.
Indissoluble links
Integration with resource planning is another important part
of an ERP system for project organizations. Projects stand or
fall depending on enough availability of the right employees at
the right time. Correctly allocating the right people to a large
number of project paths is a complex puzzle and if you do not
solve this puzzle correctly it can cost an organization a lot of
money. An increase in the average utilization rate of just one
percent, in a company with one hundred billable employees,
will very quickly add up to an increase in turnover of at least one
hundred thousand euros. With no change in costs, then the
same effect can be expected in the earnings before tax.
The impact of resource planning goes further still. The
project manager also knows at all times whether there are
enough people available to carry out the project as agreed. He
or she therefore will not suddenly be surprised that too little
progress has been booked as a result of there not being enough
people. And if the schedule shows that extra capacity is needed,
then the resource planning outcome will suggest which other
employees are actually available.
Project planning cannot manage without resource planning
and vice versa. It is not possible to create a good resource plan
without knowing which activities an organization needs to carry
out in which projects. And a company cannot create good
activity plans if it does not know whether employees of the
right caliber are available in order to carry out the schedule. The
availability of a resource planning module within ERP provides
the information needed here.
3. deltek.com3
Article
ERP for Project-Focused Organizations
Special challenges
In exceptional circumstances, such as today’s economic
climate, the need for a project management ERP is reinforced
even more strongly. Margins are under pressure, so that
professional service vendors need to be even more careful
in their project implementation. Small margins leave too
little room for errors. In this kind of situation it matters for an
organization whether it is constantly up to date with the current
financial situation in each of its projects.
Providing up-to-date information
This example can be taken further. One effect of today’s
economicclimateisthereducedavailabilityofcredit.Thismakes
it all themoreimportantfororganizationstowatchtheirworking
capital closely. In the case of projects based on actual costs,
havinganup-to-dateviewofthehoursworkedandcostsincurred
is essential for quick and accurate invoicing of customers.
An ERP system ensures there is a direct link between these
hours and costs and customer billing. In a project on a fixed-
price basis, normally completion of a given project phase means
you can bill the customer. Without an ERP solution, a project
manager has to expressly inform the finance department when
each of these milestones is reached. With an ERP solution,
this is managed by the employees on the project themselves
on the basis of progress reports. When all the activities for a
phase are complete, the project manager is sent a message that
an invoice can be sent and a workflow then ensures that the
finance department is informed.
Pressures Actions Capabilities Enablers
• More competition
• Lower prices
• Lower margins
• Definition and
implementation of
a standard project
methodology based on
best practices
• Investment in technology
support for projects
• Project management and
project implementation
are integrated and
coordinated with
customer service and
delivery organization
• Business development
and project managers
work together on realistic
customer expectations
• Decision-makers are kept
informed of progress
in real time and can
intervene immediately in
the event of disruptions
• real-time insight into all
costs
• Continuous monitoring of
customer satisfaction
• Project planning
• Project management and
reporting
• Project cost calculations
• Tools for cooperative
working tools
• Bidding process
• Contract management
• Workflow-automation
• Sub-contractor
management
• Document management
• Change management and
control
• Service management
PACE Framework: Consistent overview of possible actions and potential advantages of employing technology to raise project
activities to a higher level.
Source: Aberdeen Group, 2010