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IT Project Management Tools: MS Project and Its Alternatives - Part 2
April 27, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Computer Based Information Systems
IT Project Management Tools: MS Project and Its Alternatives - Part 2 (#2 in the series IT Project Management Tools: MS Project and Its Alternatives)
By Alexander Hankewicz
In my last posting, IT Project Management Tools: MS Project and Its Alternatives - Part 1 , I wrote about the functions of project management. When I considered alternatives to MS Project, I started thinking about the functions of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software and concluded that they were similar in many respects.
- Design
The project blueprint and design stage where are all Business Process Models are developed - Modeling
Interviewing stakeholders and developing the transactional and business process to support enterprise software deployment - Execution
The go-live stage to implement the business process and software solution - Monitoring
Monitoring the end results to achieve the KPIs that were introduced as part of the justification to introduce the software solution
Advantages
The benefits to consider when using a PPM solution are:
- Guaranteeing the availability of competencies and resources upon which project success depends
- Providing key stakeholders a complete view of the project portfolio
- Directing cost savings by prioritizing beneficial projects and eliminating unproductive projects
- Aligning IT and other projects with the enterprise’s business strategy
Original article can be found at here
Reproduced with the expressed permission of Technology Evaluation Centers Inc. Copyright © 2008 Technology Evaluation Centers Inc.
Alexander Hankewicz is a Senior Business Analyst at Technical Evaluation Centers.
He has over fifteen years of I.T. Management Experience in the area of Supply Chain Management Systems, Business Process Re-Engineering, Vendor Management and Project Management for enterprise wide systems for a variety of Fortune 500 Companies Including H.P. Sony Ericsson, Nortel, and Perkins Elmer He has written numerous articles and can be reached at ahankewicz@tec-centers.com.
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