PPM For IT
There is no doubt that the Information Technology department has a huge influence on the company’s performance, in fact, it has become a strategic tool delivering competitive advantage for organizations operating in global markets.
The source of business tools and process improvements is usually the IT department,thus managing business requirement in compliance with the department’s objectives can be a difficult task to accomplish.
In order to align the business requirements with the department challenges, an initial analysis is highly necessary to create a link between the conceptual part of the solution and the global business strategy by delivering concrete goals and milestones.
The Solutions
IPM Consulting provides the answer to these challenges with its preconfigured EPM for IT Departments Solution which delivers:
- notification and security controlled access settings.
- Cost estimate and benefit realization templates including financial and non-financial considerations.
- Organizational project impact assessment matrix.
- Project selection and portfolio optimization matrix including budget and resource availability constraints
- An enterprise resource pool, including teams, generic resources, cost resources and skills
- Programs, Portfolios, Projects, Resources and Tasks online views and dashboards (including traffic-light KPIs) with the ability to export to MS Excel.
- Defining a security model.
- Creating automated template-driven SharePoint project workspaces where documents, risks, issues, change requests and other project data is recorded and centrally maintained
- Capturing resources efforts spent on project and/or non-project tasks through time sheets and/or project status interface.