APO ITBuzz Overview

Imagine the results if every one of your projects had consistent, world-class quality assurance reviews

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Introductions

Background

CAI Overview

Product Overview & Demonstration

Next Steps

Agenda

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BackgroundResource constrained

– PMs serving dual role of PM and BA (Research work on proposed projects)

Disciplined approach– Specified process– People with proper skills and experience

Visibility / Reporting– Manually tracking progress/reporting– Need better/automated means of providing

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CAI Overview

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Legacy Application SupportReduce Legacy Software Support Costs by 30%

Automated Project OfficeA Revolutionary Breakthrough in Project Management

IT Metrics & Productivity InstituteThought Leadership in IT Best Practices

Computer Aid's proprietary methods and tools eliminates wasted IT effort while optimizing control!

Avoid project "surprises" and keep your organization focused on best practices.Our easy to implement and affordable tool leverages your existing software investment

Computer Aid's IT Metrics & Productivity Institute demonstrates our ongoing leadership in IT Best Practices and effective IT Management


Representative ClientsManufacturing

Retail Services

Financials Transportation / Logistics

Insurance Utilities

Federal Government

State Government

Education

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Have you ever encountered

these common project problems?


Challenge - Beginning to make mistakes– Needed visibility of data, control of process consistency and optimization

of project learnings to leverage continuous improvement8

Have your project teams ever unexpectedlyfailed to deliver a business-criticalinitiative?


Solution - Developed internal automated tool - Automated Project Office (APO)- Virtual implementation of Management by Walking Around

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Do you have critical project dataand status at your fingertips?


CAI Value - We achieved dramatic results - Reduced reporting effort by 20%- Reduced rework by 40%

- Client Value – commercialization- Created AMI

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Could you benefit from world-class automated assessments of your ongoing projects?


Constant stream of quantitative data…

Identify risks, off track activities and

best practice Compliance

…and management

Expertise

…with subjective team

Feedback

Best practices, KPIs,

standard Processes…

The AMI Difference

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Demonstration

Click Here to Launch

2. Report status of activities, get my voice heard

3. Manage each project with key dashboard metrics

1. Manage & track demand, Select Right Project based on value and constraints

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4. Manage Processes from an organizational point-of-view

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Next Steps Define the lift to use AMI

– Project Server – setup, programming, integration

– What is needed to configure AMI / program interfaces

– What is need for on-going administration

Define Scope to go live– Contract, references,…– Explore configuration /

customization needs– Explore data connectivity needs

(Project Server, other…)

Implementation options1. One year contract, 30-day out2. 60-day trial “out of the box”

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How the team communicates

status

Role-based, rule-based

Weekly electronic checklists

Quick, weekly assessment of

status

A method for controlling and

automating the flow of information

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Instant and up-to-date view of KPIsProject

by projectDetailed Drill-down

Analytics of the best managers

So that information can be made available to teams, managers, and executives…


Drill into a single project

Predictive analytics

Completevisibility

Bringing the qualities of the best project managers to

every project

Basic concept is to move: From manual to automated… From occasional to prescribed


Organizational analysis

Predictive analytics


Post implementation

reviews

Enables continuous

improvement


Who is on my project and their

role(s)


A place to collaborate… Attachments

A place to collaborate… CommentsA place to

collaborate… Other data

A place to collaborate…

Issues


Detailed issues, nothing slips

through


Insight into the portfolio plan

Complete view of the workload

Requirements by role & project


Analytics to assist with planning the portfolio


Business

APO ITBuzz Overview