Are you struggling to control project investments?

• Lack of feedback on status
• Inconsistent processes and deliverables
• Unable to centralize information on status and dependencies

Are you struggling to manage and allocate scarce resources?

• Difficult to assess staff usage
• Too much over-allocation that ruins project schedules
• Difficult to assess skill levels and capacities

If these questions sound familiar, you're not unlike many companies who are struggling with these same issues. The root of these types of challenges is a lack of project and resource visibility, making it difficult to effectively manage and evaluate projects as a portfolio.

Many of these issues can be significantly reduced - or eliminated - by applying enterprise project management processes, combined with automated project management tools.

Sogeti and IBM Rational software have teamed to deliver an Enterprise Project Management solution to help your business deliver projects faster, at lower cost, and with better quality. Sogeti brings 30 years of proven project management methodologies within an Enterprise Project Management practice, with over 150 Project Management Professionals (PMPs) as certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI). IBM Rational software provides market-leading tools that span the software development lifecycle - this seminar highlights IBM Rational Portfolio Manager.

• What is EPM and why is it becoming a best practice?
• What is the problem that EPM solves?
• What are the documented benefits of EPM?
• How does EPM provide transparency, insight and control to key decision makers, project managers and team members?
• What are the issues and best practices of EPM for key activities, such as managing projects, analyzing portfolios, communicating status and deliverables and deploying/tracking resources?
• How does IBM Rational Portfolio Manager support the EPM best practices?

Locations & dates:

To learn more, contact Steve Moritz, Vice President Project Delivery & Compliance Services, at steve.moritz@us.sogeti.com.