Local enterprise project management (EPM) solution provider, UMT Consulting SA, has launched its Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) Fusion Product Stack, a solution that yields optimal project and project portfolio delivery results within an organisation.
The company's CEO, Pieter Meyer, says most organisations believe that merely implementing a piece of software that has “project” in its title, will resolve all problems they are experiencing.
“Experience has shown that this is not at all the silver bullet. A highly functional EPMO is a combination of the correct systems, interfaced and integrated at the correct touch points, surrounded by the effective processes and governance required in each specific environment.”
Although each EPMO differs from the next, as organisational environments differ, there are core best practices that should always be present and adhered to, ensuring that the base from which one's EPMO operates is solid. It is for this reason that UMT Consulting SA has designed its EPMO Fusion stack, which encapsulates best practices within pre-configured toolsets and solutions.
As the toolsets and solutions are pre-configured, any organisation can get out of the starting blocks quicker, with the peace of mind that their base is solid, as it is designed from UMT Consulting SA's years of experience within the project, programme and portfolio management environment.
He says the EPMO Fusion stack of products allows organisations to choose the optimal solution for their environment, fusing this together on the correct touch points, for an optimal result. “A revival in an EPMO is more than just systems, and this is where UMT Consulting SA's extensive experience is the catalyst, to release the optimal energy within an organisations project environment.”
UMT Consulting SA is unrivalled in supplying the needed consulting, training, mentorship and coaching to ensure that all components (systems, processes and governance) are defined and applied correctly in one's environment to create a new sustainable life force within one's EPMO.
UMT Consulting SA will assist in selecting the correct toolsets from its EPMO Fusion stack, implementing these according to world best practices, and adding the needed consulting, mentoring and coaching to deliver an energy wielding EPMO within an environment.
The product stack consists of four core pre-configured products:
* Project Server 2010 Fusion
* Project Lite 2010 Fusion
* SharePoint 2010 Fusion for PRINCE 2
* SharePoint 2010 Fusion for PMBOK
Project Server 2010 Fusion was developed by UMT Consulting SA as a packaged Enterprise Project Management Solution carefully designed to meet generic organisational project management requirements. It places organisations on a quick path to receive business benefits on their investment in project management solutions.
Meyer says this packaged, pre-configured EPM Solution is based on generic project management processes and best practices, and is pivotal in providing you with a quick solution to manage current and forthcoming projects with greater control. “With Project Server 2010 Fusion we put the EPM Basics in place enabling faster adoption and a sound basis for further configuration as the organisation matures.”
SharePoint 2010 ships with standard functionality, which allows users to synchronise project schedules with SharePoint Project Task lists. This allows Project Schedule owners to publish the data to a SharePoint site where other members can access the information and update task progress.
Project Schedule owners then have the capability to synchronise the Project Schedule and SharePoint list on an ad-hoc basis to ensure that changes on the Project Schedule are pushed to the SharePoint site and also to update the Project Schedule with updates made on the SharePoint list. The solution thus allows collaboration on projects by sharing information using a SharePoint site.
“The Standard functionality merely allows the capability to collaborate on individual project schedules, but not for consolidation of projects, tasks, risks or issues, which makes reporting and visibility hard for executives, project managers and team members. Project Lite 2010 Fusion resolves this problem in that it uses custom built roll-up lists, as designed by UMT Consulting SA, to display overall consolidated views on the aforementioned areas,” he explains.
SharePoint 2010 Fusion is a visual click through methodology (PRINCE 2) and methodology framework (PMBOK) system, with its roots centred in core SharePoint 2010. Many EPMO's experience high levels of frustration with the fact that their project managers do not follow the methodology the way that it should be, nor use the correct templates at the correct time, with the correct approval given on document deliverables where required.
“SharePoint 2010 Fusion resolves this problem in that it provides any project manager with a visual interface that will, through click-through ability, ensure that project managers know at any given point in time where they are in the management of their project, what should be done next, who is involved and have access to the correct templates to complete the needed deliverables,” he concludes.
For more information contact UMT Consulting SA on (012) 345 3518 or visit http://www.umtsa.co.za.
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