Multi-Project Management

 

With PPMS, PLANTA offers a solution for multi-project management, for the planning and control of several projects that share resources or are dependent on each other in terms of content. Projects can be grouped together across departments or areas by project portfolio, and programs can be defined.

 

PPMS supports your multi-project management through:

·         Mapping of company-wide project planning and control, of program management and the management of project portfolios.

·         Central administration of all resource and project data in the database. Because the resources are in a central pool, those which are used in several projects can be planned taking into consideration the project priorities, and resource bottlenecks can be recognized in good time.

·         Visual representation of dependencies between projects, for example when the completion of a task in one project is a prerequisite for a task in another project.

·         Coordination across projects of dates, resources and costs.

 

Multi-Project Manager role

 

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

 

Main features

 

Cross-project and project-specific reports

·         Numerous predefined reports for projects

·         Up-to-date predefined reports for critical project situations such as end date delay, milestone delay, budget overrun

 

 

·         Reports are simple to enhance and amend

·         Definition of individual filters for portfolio analysis

·         Creation of ad hoc reports (using the active and archive PPMS databases)

·         Central Project Infoboard for summarized details of individual projects

·         Project status reports with a history of the project progress

·         Incorporation of Excel charts

 

 

Strategic project management

·         Project portfolio analysis

·         Setting up new plans/projects

·         Setting project priorities and supplementing this with strategic data

·         Specifying the effort and cost budgets

·         Distribution of the costs to programs and organizational units

·         Simulating new projects

 

 

Management, Stakeholder role

 

As a basis for decision-making, the management and the stakeholders need reliable project-specific and cross-project information.

·         Up-to-date predefined reports for critical project situations such as end date delay, milestone delay, budget overrun

·         Central Project Infoboard for summarized details of individual projects

·         Option of detailed information about dates, variances, costs and effort for an individual project.

·         Project status reports with a history of the project progress