Multi-Project Manager

 

The core function is to coordinate all the individual projects in terms of the best possible achievement of the strategic corporate objectives. A multi-project manager analyses the interactions of projects to identify cross-project resource conflicts and to enable appropriate optimization measures to be initiated.

 

·         Creating new ideas, plans, projects

·         Setting project priorities and supplementing this with strategic data

·         Specifying effort and cost budgets

·         Distribution of costs to programs and organizational units

 

Central Project Controlling for Multi-Project Managers

PLANTA Project provides a clear overview of resource utilization across all the company’s projects. This enables statements to be made on the availability of individual resources or departments for concrete customer inquiries at a glance. This simplifies communication with customers and offers competitive advantages.

 

 

Multi-Project Analysis

·         Display of cost details by project type

·         Definition of individual filters, incorporation of Excel charts

·         Creation of an individual project watchlist

 

 

Project-Specific Details

·         Central info board for summarized details of individual projects

·         Detailed information about costs, efforts, risk and chance trends as well as earned value and milestone trend data of a single project

·         Project status reports with a history of the project progress

 

 

Earned Value Analysis (EVA)

·         As of release 39.4, PLANTA Project provides advanced project controlling functions on the basis of the updated remaining effort: The system calculates the completion value on the basis of the remaining effort estimates for individual work packages.

·         Over the course of a project, status reports enable progress monitoring.

·         Unlike manual progress recording a too optimistic project estimate can be avoided.

·         Project manager estimates can also be created manually and freezed in the status reports.

·         EVA is used for early controlling of the actual project progress.

·         Informative forecasts about project end costs and project end date are possible.

·         Graphics, trends and detailed analysis of causes illustrate the results.

 

 

Benefits

·         Transparency in costs, dates and performance

·         Exact forecasts, better planning of required resources

 

Reports

·         Numerous predefined reports for individual and multi-projects

·         Predefined reports for critical project situations such as end date delay, milestone delay, budget overrun

·         Reports are easy to enhance and amend

·         Project manager’s personal estimate of the project status with regard to dates, costs and effort