Template-Based Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Software Solution

Template-Based Project Portfolio Management

Comprehensive Project Tracking Software Solution

Challenges:

Completing projects on time.

Solution:

Gaining increased executive commitment through effective project selection, enabling team-members to achieve peak performance sooner, and true improvement transparency with reliable tracking and reporting.

Project Business Alignment: We enable companies to better identify, evaluate and select strategic projects with the Highest ROI and Lowest Risks.
Improved Performance: Your team-members to achieve peak performance faster with a project workspace, templates and task-specific refresher training.
Valuable Reporting: Executives get real-time monitoring of project execution progress and post-implementation process monitoring.

Value:

Our customers on average found a 25% Improvement in Productivity with Template-based Project Portfolio Management.

Why? Template-based Project Execution enables Task-specific Knowledge transfer for improved team-member learning-curve and self-sufficiency -- and provides a project standard and feedback-loop which enables each execution of the template to improve upon the last.

Business Applications

Lean Six Sigma: Comprehensive Solution includes web-based Deployment Management Solution, DMAIC Templates, Lean Six Sigma process analysis tools, and Statistical tools.

Product Development: Prioritize opportunities, capture tacit and tribal Knowledge, and speed to market for your most promising offerings.

Differentiators and Benefits

Benefits Differentiators

Identify Strategic Projects with the Highest ROI and Lowest Risk

‘Cost of Doing Nothing Different’ analysis illuminates Best Practice Transfer business case

Evaluate Suggestions against strategic priorities

Gets your Team-members working at their Peak Performance, Sooner

‘Fit-for-Purpose’ project Template Library

Project Workspace provides all your needed information in one view: what to do, how to do it, examples, and tools

Online / Offline Project Workspace synchronization with Reports and Dashboard eliminates the need for manual status updates

Task-specific Knowledge Sharing enables 'one-to-many' Coaching

Comprehensive Process Analysis & Design toolkit: improves process analysis quality and productivity

Dashboards, Workflow, Alerts & Reminders: to keep the projects on track and on time

Provide Executives with real process improvement measurements

Operational & Analytical Reporting on Project Management effectiveness

Skills alignment between people, training and processes

Performance Management on post-implementation project results

Knowledge Capture & Transfer to minimize risk of knowledge decay

Platform Components

SigmaFlow's solution is supported by the following capabilities:

Capabilities Features

Process-centric Knowledge Management
Process-centric content organization and context-tagging provides needed structure and expedites your knowledge retrieval

Analysis-ready Metric Collection
Sustain and Evolve Core Business Processes, and Identify Best Practice Transfer opportunities.

Project Management Infrastructure
Project Selection, User Dashboard, Template-driven Roadmap, Workflows, Gate and Financial Reviews

TOOLKIT for Business Process Analysis
Delivers end-user productivity, reduced errors and faster realization of results. Tools include: Business Process Analysis, Simulation, Lean, Six Sigma, and Statistics.

Business Process Templates
Provide the structured methodologies and tools to execute your projects consistently, and sustain the success. (You can build your own template, or use a proven template developed by SigmaFlow and its partners.)

Employee Development & Skills Alignment
Provides a knowledge support infrastructure. Improve your process execution with alignment between Process, People and Skills.

Getting Started is Easy

SigmaFlow works closely with customers to maximize their software investment ROI.

Template-based Project Portfolio Management solution configuration takes less than a day ,and no programming. An internet connection, browser and log-in are all that’s needed. Our SaaS (Software as a Service) platform requires no capital investment in hardware, and is scalable from small project teams to global deployments. (Continuous Improvement projects typically deliver a 10 to 1 benefit- to-cost ratio.)

Best Practice Transfer Workshop provides hands-on Training of the Distillation and Transfer process for a critical business Process, Project, or Human Tacit Knowledge. Workshop provides: Successful Transfer result, Best Practice Transfer Training, and a SaaS (Software as a Service) Knowledge Portal instance. (Best Practice Transfer projects typically deliver a 50 to 1 benefit-to-cost ratio.)

Business Process Standards and Compliance Workshop demonstrates the ease of creating a process standard, validating the standard is being followed, and incorporates measurements feedback-loop. SaaS (Software as a Service) Knowledge Portal instance is provided.