APO ITBuzz Overview
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The document discusses an automated project office tool called Computer Aid's Automated Management Interface (AMI) that provides visibility, governance, and control over projects. It allows organizations to track project data, status, and key metrics; manage projects and processes consistently; and provide reporting at various levels of the organization. The presentation demonstrates AMI's capabilities such as managing projects, tasks, and resources as well as its analytics and reporting features. It also discusses implementation options and next steps to set up and configure AMI for an organization.
APO ITBuzz Overview
- 1. Imagine the results if every one of your projects had consistent, world-class quality assurance reviews
- 2. Agenda Introductions Background CAI Overview Product Overview & Demonstration Next Steps Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 2
- 3. Background Resource constrained – PMs serving dual role of PM and BA (Research work on proposed projects) Disciplined approach – Specified process – People with proper skills and experience Visibility / Reporting – Manually tracking progress/reporting – Need better/automated means of providing visibility Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 3
- 4. CAI Overview Legacy Application Support Automated Project Office Reduce Legacy Software Support Costs by 30% A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Project Management Computer Aid's proprietary methods and tools eliminates wasted IT effort while optimizing control! IT Metrics & Productivity Institute Thought Leadership in IT Best Practices Avoid project "surprises" and keep your Computer Aid's IT Metrics & organization focused on best practices. Productivity Institute demonstrates Our easy to implement and affordable tool our ongoing leadership in IT Best leverages your existing software Practices and effective IT investment Management Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 4
- 5. Representative Clients Manufacturing Retail Financials Insurance Federal Government Services State Government Transportation / Logistics Utilities Education Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 5
- 6. Have you ever encountered these common project problems Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 7
- 7. Have your project teams ever unexpectedly failed to deliver a business-critical initiative? Challenge - Beginning to make mistakes – Needed visibility of data, control of process consistency and optimization of project learnings to Control | continuous improvement leverage Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 8
- 8. Do you have critical project data and status at your fingertips? Solution - Developed internal automated tool - Automated Project Office (APO) - Virtual implementation Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility of Management by Walking Around Communications | Succeed 9
- 9. Could you benefit from world-class automated assessments of your ongoing projects? CAI Value - We achieved dramatic results - Client Value – commercialization - Reduced reporting effort by 20% - Created AMI - Reduced rework by 40% Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 10
- 10. The AMI Difference Constant stream of quantitative data… …with subjective team Feedback Best practices, KPIs, standard Processes… …and management Expertise Identify risks, off track activities and best practice Compliance Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 11
- 11. Demonstration 1. Manage & track demand, Select Right Project based on value and constraints 2. Report status of activities, get my voice heard 3. Manage each project with key dashboard metrics 4. Manage Processes from an organizational point-of-view Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed Click Here to Launch 12
- 12. Next Steps Define the lift to use AMI – Project Server – setup, programming, integration – What is needed to configure AMI / program interfaces – What is need for on-going administration Define Scope to go live – Contract, references,… – Explore configuration / customization needs – Explore data connectivity needs (Project Server, other…) Implementation options 1. 2. One year contract, 30-day out 60-day trial “out of the box” Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 13
- 13. A method for controlling and automating the flow of information Role-based, rule-based How the team communicates status Weekly electronic checklists Quick, weekly assessment of status Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed 16
- 14. So that information can be made available to teams, managers, and executives… Analytics of the best managers Instant and up-toProject date view of KPIs Detailed by project Drill-down Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
- 15. Bringing the qualities of the best project managers to every project Drill into a single project Basic concept is to move: From Predictiveautomated… manual to From occasional to prescribed analytics Complete visibility Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
- 16. Predictive analytics Organizational analysis Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
- 17. Post implementation reviews Enables continuous improvement Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
- 18. Who is on my project and their role(s) Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
- 19. A place to collaborate… Attachments A place to collaborate… Issues A place to collaborate… Comments A place to collaborate… Other data Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
- 20. Detailed issues, nothing slips through Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
- 21. Insight into the portfolio plan Requirements by role & project Complete view of the workload Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
- 22. Analytics to assist with planning the portfolio Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
- 23. Control | Governance | Enable | Innovate& Visibility Communications | Succeed
Editor's Notes
- #4: Put prospect specific details here
- #5: CAI is a global IT services firm that has been delivering Legacy Application Support, business/IT consulting, application development, knowledge capture, desktop services, and managed staffing services over the past 32+ year. With annual revenues over 400 Million and over 3,000 associate worldwide. Developed an IT governance & visibility product suite “Advanced Management Insight”Founded the ITMPI.org
- #14: Put client specific next steps here