PMComplete™ Overview
Benefit Details
Introduction
This section provides supporting "evidence" of PMComplete's™ ability to deliver benefits in the nominated area.
Improve Your Organisation's Portfolio and Project Delivery Capability and Maturity
- By implementing PMComplete™, your organisation will be well on the way to improving its portfolio and project delivery capability
- By using PMComplete™ you will be forcing your project participants to follow standard processes as well as standard data entry and reporting
- Using PMComplete™ forces a rigour in project activities
- PMComplete™ can form the basis of improving your ISO 9001 and CMMI ranking
- Provides a "corporate memory" for projects, thereby allowing you to leverage from lessons learnt as well as re-use previously created project work products
- Brings exceptional, unmatched functionality, information accessibility, flexibility, scalability and affordability to enterprise-wide project management
Increase Staff Skills
- By learning best practice as a by-product of using PMComplete™ which provides best-of-breed functionality
- Forces project participants to think more deeply about the right things
- By providing fully integrated set of reference material (like a methodology) that can be used as a check list or refresher for ideas on what to do, when to do it and how to do it
- By learning best practice based on PMI's® PMBOK®, project participants will be in an excellent position to sit for various project management certification exams (eg, AIPM RegPM and PMI® PMP®)
Increase Staff Moral
- By providing project participants with the tools to do the job right you are providing a conducive work environment
- Allows you to use all or as little of the functionality as you need for your projects
- By not requiring project participants to perform meaningless, non-value-adding activities (eg, duplicate data entry, reconciling results between multiple systems, manually producing reports), PMComplete™ reduces their frustrations
- Project participants do not have to learn the idiosyncrasies of multiple disparate systems
Reduce Staff Turnover
- Because of improved staff moral
- Because you will be providing them with a conducive learning environment
Increase Productivity
- By using PMComplete™ to rank each project against your business objectives, you will be able to ensure that only those projects that are aligned with those business objectives are approved and prioritised correctly, thereby allowing you to eliminate "pet projects" and "hidden projects"
- Following the RoadMaps reduces false starts, going off on tangents as well as providing "something that I thought was interesting"
- Because PMComplete™ promotes "best practice" all project participants (and not just Project Managers) will automatically know what to do next and the best way of doing it
- PMComplete™ allows you to make the most out of what you have in the way of time, money and resources
- Reduces project administration time and labour intensiveness and increases billable hours
- Allows you to spend more time managing and pressing the flesh (which is more critical to project success) as well as "doing project work"
- By providing a self-service facility to Clients, you reduce the time it takes your own staff to enter and check data as well as reduce errors
- By having a single, integrated repository for all project data, you will have one version of the truth, thereby reducing the need to reconcile and debate which data is correct
- By implementing PMComplete™ WorkFlow capabilities, there will be less paper forms, less delays for authorisations and approvals leading to faster project cycle times
- Improved individual productivity because of the consistent, intuitive look and feel as well as the availability of learning and support resources like tutorials, System Usage Tips and context-sensitive Help thereby reducing training time and costs as well as faster new project participant and new staff induction
- By monitoring staff assignments to projects you will be in a position to head off projects being delayed because a staff member is not available as well as minimising bench sitting time
Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness
- There will be less re-work in the areas of project monitoring and reporting because there is usually only one right way of doing it in PMComplete™
- Enhances collaboration on projects no matter where project participants are located in the world
- Moves staff away from using spreadsheets and other ad hoc tools and moves them to use an integrated, best-of-breed solution
- Significantly improves month-end reporting time and improved timeliness of information
- Streamlines processes that lead to improved efficiency and reduced cycle times
- Improved communications between project team members as well as with other project stakeholders (management, Clients and vendors)
- More effective project teams because of the closer collaboration available through having just one version of the truth and by being able to access this from anywhere in the world at anytime
Increase Business Benefits
- By monitoring benefits from when they are first mooted, through to when they are committed by someone through to when they should be harvested ensures that the reason for doing the project is not lost and people are held to account
- This monitoring provides a "corporate memory" for benefits realisation, ensuring that they are not "forgotten" after the project is completed and/or when the responsible person "moves on"
Give you faster and more accurate portfolio and project reporting
- By being web-enabled, there is no longer any excuse for not entering project data in "real-time" from anywhere in the world at any time
- By providing many pre-formatted, standard reports ensures that appropriate management reports can be produced in "real-time"
- Reports will be consistent across projects and Project Managers
- There will be improved co-ordination across all projects within and without your organisation because of the improved visibility of all activities (tasks, issues, action items, defect repairs and service calls) and resource assignments, risks and dependencies
- Enhanced decision-making by being better informed from having access to all project information at your fingertips
Be in Control
- By being able to consistently monitor the status of every:
- project within your organisation
- person working on every project
- change request for every project
- risk for every project
- defect for every project
- issue for every project
- action item for every project
- work product for every project
- configuration item for every project
- dependency for every project
- By being able to prioritise projects based on a variety of parameters
- By being able to see how every project aligns with your business objectives
- By being able to manage resource assignments across multiple projects
- By being able to measure risk versus reward for every project
- By being in control, you will reduce project risks
- By being in control, you reduce the odds of delivering late, over-budget and/or with reduced functionality
- Takes the guesswork out of managing projects
- All of the above will enhance your project governance
Improved Professional Image with Clients, Vendors and Prospective Staff
- By presenting the quality reports that come from PMComplete™ to Clients you will demonstrate that you are in control of the project
- By giving your Clients PMComplete™ reports you will be providing them with the information that they need to manage their aspects of the project(s)
- By presenting PMComplete™ -produced reports to Clients you will be demonstrating a professional image implied by your investment in a professional tool for the job
- Will provide you with a competitive edge in your marketplace
- By presenting vendors with PMComplete™ reports you will impress on them the necessity to report correctly and professionally in a timely manner back to you
Improve Project Work Products Quality
- By monitoring defects in PMComplete™ you can understand their root cause and do something about it
- By using PMComplete™ you will have more time to spend on work products
- PMComplete™ promotes a template and check list approach - these being updated from lessons learnt that are collected throughout the project life cycle
Reduce Your Costs
- Because of all of the above
- By using PMComplete™ you will not need any other project management and reporting tools and, therefore, will not incur the big costs associated with designing, developing, maintaining, supporting and administering your own home-grown solution(s) yourself as well as allowing you to proceed with your core activities
- Because PMComplete™ teaches best practice as a by-product of using it, you will reduce your formal staff training costs
- Allows you to do more with less… less effort, less cost and less resources, BUT more analysis, more functionality, more quality and more professional (faster, cheaper, better)
- Because PMComplete™ is inexpensive from a Total Cost of Ownership point of view when contrasted with other solutions
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