The document discusses the challenges in project management, highlighting issues such as lack of visibility and late problem detection. It introduces xpm (extreme project management) as a solution that emphasizes automatic information gathering and adaptability to changes, aiming to enhance productivity and project oversight. Additionally, it encourages leveraging community knowledge and provides an invitation for a demonstration session.

1. XPM
eXtreme Project Management
Sebastian Jodal Jean Pierre Valencia
DVFacto VP GeneXus USA PMO Manager
sjodal@dvfacto.com jvalencia@genexususa.com

2. How projects are managed?
• Nothing
• None specific tools
• MS Project
• Home-Grown Solution

3. Common Problems in PM
• Too long to answer questions
• Too late to know if we have a problem
• Productivity gets diluted

4. Are we as good as we can be?

5. NO!

7. Visibility
Anytime,
Anywhere

8. Lower cost for “good” information
• Automatic information gathering of:
– Effort
– Work progress
• Eliminate repetition
– Gather information from the source
• Tasks and Objects traceability
– Directly and Indirectly

9. Information Centralized
Corporate
Information
Centralized
Documentation

10. Best Practices
• Estimation

11. Highly available
• Project information available in a simple
way from multiple interfaces

12. Be Agile
• Easily adapt your plan as the
the project evolves
• A tool thought to
manage and embrace
changes

13. Expand the Framework

14. Benefit from community knowledge
• XPM grows with the Framework
• XPM grows with us
• XPM grows with the community
• Therefore, xpm grows with You.

15. Demo

17. Be the best that you can be

18. Thanks
Sebastian Jodal Jean Pierre Valencia
DVFacto VP GeneXus USA PMO

19. Questions?
Sebastian Jodal Jean Pierre Valencia
DVFacto VP GeneXus USA PMO

20. See it in action!
• XPM Lab Tuesday 2:30pm