APO Features and Functions
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Automated Project Office (APO) is a SaaS solution that helps managers ensure projects are completed successfully through management by walking around, process governance, and operational visibility. APO analyzes projects, compares current trends to historical data, and provides customizable dashboards and reports to highlight potential issues. By leveraging team insights and intuitions, APO aims to address problems proactively and answer whether a project will be successful from start to finish.
APO Features and Functions
- 1. Automated Project Office Features & Functions Automated Project Office (APO) is a SaaS solution that helps managers and executives proactively ensure that they successfully complete the projects for which they are responsible . With APO, business leaders can proactively address: • Troubled projects • Surprises • Improper risk management APO starts where traditional project and portfolio management tools end. The solution takes a 360° view of what is needed to deliver a successful project. APO provides management via walking around, process governance, and operational visibility. Management by Walking Around Management by walking around (MBWA) is used to gain information directly from employees working on specific projects. APO delivers the key constructs of MBWA: • Consistent and minimally intrusive reviews let management stay in direct touch with the individuals doing the work. • Audit responses can be leveraged to proactively address potential problems before they become unmanageable. • Customizable risk assessment framework pinpoints problem areas. Process Governance Consistent use of up-to-date processes and frequent team member assessments keep projects on-time and on-budget. By monitoring team processes, rework is eliminated and the expected solutions are delivered. Benefits include: • Best practice enforcement ensures projects stay on track. • Optimized processes are captured and enforced across the entire organization. • One competitive advantage of the APO solution is the knowledge repository; it contains industry leading processes and practices that have been used time after time to guarantee project success.
- 2. Operational Visibility APO’s user friendly screens analyze projects and show potential problems to management. Multi-level views, dashboards, and reports provide the necessary information for all levels of the IT organization: • APO imports key data from other operational applications like traditional project management tools and synergizes the information with team member knowledge and intuition. • Historical data is compared to current trends to reveal changes and risks that might not be caught otherwise. By coupling the historical trends with current activity, APO helps ensure project success. • Clear, contextual visualization of all activities provides up to date information, revealing the status of each project and ensuring that nothing goes unseen. Project Success With APO, the pulse on the team’s qualitative perspectives on requirements, risks, and deliverables is leveraged to address the critical points for ensuring successful projects. APO’s proactive engine and dashboards are configurable to meet the specific needs of each organization. Team intuitions and project status are synergized to highlight potential issues before they become catastrophic. From the earliest stages of the project lifecycle all the way through to the end, APO answers the question, “Will my project be successful?” _____________________________________________________________________________________ ___ COMPUTER AID, INC. World Headquarters 1390 Ridgeview Drive Allentown, PA 18104 United States (610) 530-5000 www.AMIPlatform.com/APO