Project Portfolio Management
QuickStrike from Sogeti using IBM
Rational Portfolio Manager software.
Rapidly implement enterprise project management best practices and tools to gain enhanced benefits from resources and investments
Today’s enterprise environment organizations
face the challenge of allocating
scarce resources to interdepartment
projects with inadequate transparency
for progress, resource availability, dependencies
and deliverables. As a result,
organizations find it difficult to effectively
manage and evaluate projects as a
portfolio and to control individual projects
while maintaining alignment with
strategic goals.
Project portfolio management (PPM)
combines consistent processes,
standard templates and automation to
improve project visibility, consistency
of execution and insightful portfolio management. For example, it can help
reduce the costs associated with discovering
new ways to improve processes
and can minimize reporting burdens on
highly paid managers, freeing them to
focus on more strategic tasks. However,
successfully introducing a PPM solution
is a complex endeavor. Success
depends on ensuring that processes are
well defined and consistently implemented
and on making sure that the
organization is poised for change. Even
with world-class tools, such as IBM®
Rational® Portfolio Manager software,
successful PPM implementation requires
a managed and iterative approach.
Sogeti and IBM have joined forces to
provide the Project Portfolio Management
QuickStrike offering, which leverages
IBM Rational Project Portfolio Manager software. The Sogeti and IBM offering
provides a rapid, defined introduction
to PPM and a road map for deploying
subsequent iterations of IBM Rational
Portfolio Manager software across the
enterprise. As part of the offering, Sogeti
implements a first iteration of PPM using
a defined scope that includes specific
project managers, team members and
executives. In addition, the QuickStrike
offering results in a series of implementation
recommendations that is
designed to complement the current
status and situation of the environment
and to lay the groundwork for successful
and expanded PPM. Sogeti
leverages its repository of best practices
and its International Unified Project
Management System to support recommendations
for enhancing PPM.
Highlights
Helps improve project and
portfolio management performance
by integrating proven
Sogeti best practices for
project portfolio management
and IBM Rational software
Helps optimize investment in
Rational software by performing
a readiness assessment
for the project portfolio management
solution
Supports business strategy by
making specific recommendations
to enhance processes, programs, projects, portfolios,
resources and communication
management
Provides a defined and
controlled scope for rapid
implementation of the IBM
Rational Portfolio Manager tool
Project Portfolio Management QuickStrike
offering features
Implementation services for the
Rational Portfolio Manager tool
Education services for users, including
project managers, team members
and executives
Assessment reports that establish
recommendations in the areas of
project, portfolio and resource
management and in communication
and collaboration, with details on
the sequence, time and implementation
effort
Detailed definitions of implementation
for subsequent iterations of the
Rational Portfolio Manager tool,
including:
