Strategic Project Management

CASE STUDY

Strategic Project Management Abstract Our customer is a leading provider in Environmental, energy and industrial services throughout North America. The company serves a diverse customer base across a broad range of vertical markets, which includes a majority of the fortune 500 companies numerous federal, state, provincial and local governmental agencies, and over 200,000 small and medium sized businesses. The company is on a continuous and rapid expansion path to become the leader in Environmental, Energy and Industrial services. To support this growth the Project Management Office runs multiple IT projects in parallel. The management and tracking of these IT projects are crucial to ensure right resource allocation and timely completion of deliverables. Vertex built a SharePoint 2010 based application to manage all IT projects.

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Business Challenge The rapid growth of our customer created a need for running a large number of IT projects in parallel and the Project Management Office (PMO) was responsible for managing and tracking these projects. Decisions on projects were being made

Solution Highlights Project Management – Provides a centralized control of project management with automated processes built in for managing project details, monitor status and health of project, and generate project reports

during steering committee meetings by the CIO, CEO, Chairman, PMO director, and Executive

Resource Management - Provides a cen-

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tralized control on resources management and reports on resource availability and time

The existing SharePoint site failed to provide a

allocation.

mechanism for the streamlined maintenance of project and resource related information. Information was scattered across the site and difficult to

Project Search – Easy and quick search for projects of interest.

consolidate and access by the key stake holders that included the Steering Committee, Business Sponsors and the PMO. There was no capability to generate reports and

Dashboards – Senior management dashboard to monitor projects and resource allocation for effective and efficient decision making.

dashboards that would capture the project details such as status, sponsor, resource allocation, resource availability, and similar project related information. All this hampered decision making on initiating new projects, supporting ongoing projects, and finalizing priorities for upcoming projects.

Vertex Solution Vertex consultants studied the existing process and designed a SharePoint based solution for managing and tracking projects and resources. Vertex leveraged SharePoint 2010, MS SQL Server 2008, and .NET 3.5 to deliver an enterprise level application.


BUSINESS VALUE Provides a centralized control of the project management, resource management, and to generate various reports Centralized location for project and project management reporting Automated process for the following, thereby reducing time and effort: Manage Project details Know the status & health of the Project Resource Availability Generate Project/Resource Management Reports Facilitates in effective and efficient decision making

About Us Vertex is a CMMi Level-3 IT consulting organization that engages with its customers at a strategic level and provides ‘thought leadership’. Vertex’s team of Solution Scientists craft innovative solutions, with a holistic view, that make businesses smarter. Vertex acts as an advisory partner, aligning its offerings with the business goals and objectives of its customers.

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