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Industry Commentary
"By 2003, Global 2000 CIOs' need to enhance enterprise value will increase IT portfolio management usage, with 50% using it as a communication tool, 25% using it sporadically for risk/reward-based decision support, and only 3% employing it consistently to manage the entire enterprise as a single portfolio. Through 2006, these numbers will increase most rapidly in the first and second groups, to 80%+ and 40% respectively, but because of the organizational maturity and discipline required, only 6% will achieve consistent enterprisewide IT portfolio management."
- Meta Group
"Whether you are seeking to become proficient in forecasting or simply trying to determine which legacy systems should get the ax, a critical next step for IT leaders is to get your portfolio management houses in order."
- Computer World
"By 2003, Global 2000 CIOs' need to enhance enterprise value will increase IT portfolio management usage, with 50% using it as a communication tool, 25% using it sporadically for risk/reward-based decision support, and only 3% employing it consistently to manage the entire enterprise as a single portfolio. Through 2006, these numbers will increase most rapidly in the first and second groups, to 80%+ and 40% respectively, but because of the organizational maturity and discipline required, only 6% will achieve consistent enterprisewide IT portfolio management."
- Meta Group
"Whether you are seeking to become proficient in forecasting or simply trying to determine which legacy systems should get the ax, a critical next step for IT leaders is to get your portfolio management houses in order."
- Computer World
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Resource Forecasting and Time Tracking
Portfolio Management Center
Project Delivery Center
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GURU (Knowledge Management & Best Practices)
Introducing the Project Delivery Center
The Project Delivery Center (PDC) is a web-based collaborative tool for planning, coordinating and executing technical initiatives. Using this tool for system design and development enables organizations to:
| • | Foster clearer lines of project communication |
| • | Become more efficient at accurately identifying and documenting system requirements |
| • | Encourage stakeholder collaboration |
| • | Coordinate project task ownership |
| • | Have a real-time, accurate view of project health |
| • | Use automation to eliminate time spent manually updating plans and status reports. This provides more reliable information in real-time and frees IT resources for more important tasks. |
| • | Provide IT and its customers with the information needed to continuously collaborate and remain in alignment, while reducing time spent in planning and status meetings |
The PDC brings projects to life by capturing all program information in one place, including budgets, issue tracking, time tracking, and system design. This eliminates the manual gathering and analysis process.
These capabilities provide IT and its business customers with the real-time information needed to control scope, drive progress, adjust priorities and resources, resolve open issues, evaluate performance against schedule, and perform the managerial activities required to make multidiscipline projects succeed.
Project Delivery Center Segments
The Project Delivery Center (PDC) component of the Virtual Program Management Office is designed to help organizations achieve optimal delivery efficiency. It supports the conceptualization, design, construction and testing of the system delivery process. Its major segments are:
| • | PDC Home - The Project Delivery Center home page acts as the project's development portal. It has an active clock for all time zones of the project, visual status indicators (red, orange, and green), an Inbox with all items assigned to the current user, and a What's New queue of entries that have most recently been created or modified. |
| • | Project Community - Contains a Project Contacts section, Project Glossary, Discussion Forum, and Bulletin Board. This section provides efficient channels for team communication. |
| • | Project Coordination - Contains the project’s Meeting Schedule, Project Tasks, Risk Management, Status Reporting, Change Management, Issue Tracking, Budget Tracking, Resource Forecasting, and Resource Usage (timesheets). This section facilitates team coordination. |
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Requirements Management - Contains the project’s Critical Success Factors, Requirement Sources, Functional Requirements, Actors, Use Cases, Non-Functional Requirements, and Scenarios. These areas are used to define, refine and finalize project requirements. |
| • | Solution Design - Allows users to attach artifacts that document the system design. Typical solution design artifacts include Creative Briefs, Database Models, Domain Models, Object Models, Use Case Models, User Interface Designs, etc. |
| • | Quality Management - Stores Test Scripts, Defect Tracking documentation, and Release Notes. These areas are used to ensure quality assurance and system release coordination. |
Common Features
| • | Revision Control - Allows the user to see all previous versions of an artifact including author, modification date/time, attachments, and all other artifact data. Revision control is provided for Continuum services for which it is valuable. |
| • | Inline Feedback - Most support services allow users to enter "In-Line" threaded feedback. This can be particularly useful for working collaboratively on a trouble call or system documentation. |
| • | Data Export - Data can be exported to a variety of MS-Office formats for ad-hoc data analysis. Typically MS-Excel is used for a key attributes summary and MS-Word is used for more detailed listings. The MS-Project format is used for task-based data. |
| • | ID Nesting - For artifacts that have a reference ID, the IDs can be stored in a hierarchical format. This can be useful in situations where there is a series of related artifacts. |
The screen shots give a better idea of the kind of problems this tool can help you solve. If you wish, contact us to get more information. There are efficiencies to be gained in your organization, and we are here to help you realize them.