iPPM's PPM services centre on assistance in planning, economy management and risk analysis inside our customers' projects. We can act as resources directly on the projects, at planner level or management level, or join briefly to improve structure and processes.
“Getting assistance in planning is just great, it doubles my capacity.”a Project Manager working with iPPM
Professional assistance in planning time, resources, finance and risk in your projects is one of the primary services we offer.
We participate directly in projects and take responsibility for one or more of these disciplines, freeing the Project Manager to maintain oversight and make the right decisions.
We are eager to share our knowledge, and are frequently used as motivators and catalysts in the process of improving a company's project planning: refining processes, coaching planners, and supporting software implementation.
When the number of projects in a company grows, the need to manage and prioritise the portfolio grows with it. The typical issues to manage are vision and strategy, financial targets, and short- and long-term resource allocation.
To do this well, management must have access to up-to-date information about the projects. The Project Management Office (PMO) usually provides it: serving Management, serving Projects, developing and maintaining processes and software, QA-ing project work, collecting and reporting data, and developing competencies in the project organisation.
We have years of experience with these activities. We help specify the tasks, build routines and processes, and take part in the work day to day.
Maintaining an overview of project economy during execution is critical for the Project Manager. In our experience the clearest overview comes when Project Economy is integrated with Project Planning, so the work performed can be compared against budgeted and actual cost through Earned Value analysis and Cost / Schedule Performance indices.
We have the knowledge to assist in specifying the tasks, building the routines and processes, and taking part in the day-to-day work.
It is a proven fact that many big projects, across many businesses, are hit by unforeseen events. Systematic risk work makes it possible to reduce both the likelihood of those events and their consequences if they happen, often with substantial savings.
We have many years of experience creating routines, implementing tools, and, not least, carrying out risk analyses on specific projects in close cooperation with the project team. Our experience covers Risk Registers, FMEA, Successive Calculation, and Monte Carlo Simulation.
For risk analysis we recommend Oracle Primavera Cloud, a comprehensive and easy-to-use tool with risk management built in.
Reporting is essential for every PPM tool. Moving from managing individual projects to managing a portfolio only increases the need, because decisions can affect many projects at once.
iPPM helps identify the data you need to make decisions and run the company at PPM level. In close cooperation with your PMO and IT department, we develop a data model that supports the reporting you need, and, if useful, help establish it.
Many companies use several IT tools to manage their projects and portfolio, which can lead to synchronisation problems and create extra work and error risk when data is transferred manually between systems.
iPPM has many years of experience handling data, implementing data warehouses, integrating existing IT systems, and enabling reporting across multiple databases. Based on an analysis of the data in question, we offer a cost-benefit analysis of the options to support the best decision.
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