Does your project management tool help your PMO in institutionalizing the Quality process areas?
In its research to help organizations to develop and maintain quality products and services, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has found several dimensions that an organization can focus on to improve its business. It defines that there are three critical dimensions that organizations typically focus on: people, procedures and methods, and tools and equipment.
Tools play a major role in putting and binding people with defined procedures and methods.So it becomes very critical for organisation to invest in right product to get best returns on the tools they procure.Most of the organisations believe in building tools using internal expertency and some who want to explore readily available tools in the market.Organisations check for tools which matches very near to their requirements and suit their business environment.So tools should satisfy organisation in two ways, a) Able to suit in the current business environment, b) Flexible enough to change for future business requirements.
The cost of quality of the tool need to be justified with efficient project management and it is achievable with an integrated project management tool which facilitates organisation to define lifecycles and workflows matching the process areas of defined methodologies.
Of the cream what comes out is PPM Studio-an integrated project portfolio management tool, which is an end-to-end project portfolio management tool which supports process methodologies like CMMi, PMBOK, and PRINCE2.
What it can do your Organization is,
1) Map the projects scope with your Organization goals providing senior management a real time view of portfolio.
2) Provide better visibility of resource allocation
3) Define roles and responsibilities at the organization level and redefine them at project level.
4) Ability to access the skill of the resource and map with project requirement, their helping project managers in drafting their training calendar.
5) Seamless flow of communication within all relevant stakeholders of projects and even at organization level
6) Complying user to flow defined organization policy by defining checklists at both project and organization level.
7) Better management of cost of quality.
To know more on how PPM Studio maps the process areas of CMMi, PMBOK and PRINCE2, please logon to our website www.ppmstudio.com and register for FREE product DEMO.


