2. Agenda
• Introduction • Introduce APO
– What will I as the PMO mgr /
VP of IT get from APO?
• Pepsi Challenges
– How will it make my people
– Consolidating IT Orgs
more productive?
– Lack qualified PMs
– Dashboards today yield
surprises • Demonstration
– Need for better PM – High level
– Discuss reasons and – Drill down as / if
impact appropriate
• Capabilities needed? • Next steps
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3. Origins
Need
– We were beginning to make mistakes
– Quickly needed to get a communications, visibility, and
enforcement system in place
Solution
– Internal solution: Automated Project Office (APO)
– Virtual implementation of Management by Walking Around
Valued by clients
– Commercialization of APO
– Created ITBuzz (greater need beyond projects)
4. Management by walking
around
1. Managers can clearly
communicate what needs
to be done
2. Spot early warning signs before projects fail
3. Managers can ensure best practices are
followed and critical steps are not overlooked
5. Effects of MBWA
100%
90% Morale
Performance
80%
Time on task
70%
60%
50%
Never/Rarely 1-2 Times/Month Weekly Regularly
Finding: Managers who more frequently engaged their teams were re-
evaluating decisions and reprioritizing risks/issues earlier in the project.
6. The ITBuzz difference…
Know what is in
need of attention
Apply the knowledge of
your best people
All activities are visible in a
central repository
Accurate data
to make correct decisions
7. What is ITBuzz?
Seven
Domains Portfolio Service
Management
Delivery
IT Service
HealthCheck Management
Project
Management
(APO)
Process Capability Issue
Management Management
Improvement
Results
Management
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8. ITBuzz in the AMI framework
ITBuzz Suite
Client Specific Solutions
Portfolio Management
Service Management
AMI
IT HealthCheck
App
… …
Supply Chain
Store
Drug Trial
Wellness
APO
Advanced Management Insight (AMI)
Q&A
Knowledge Data Control
Engine & Dashboard
AMI Repository Feeds Room
Scheduler
Frame
work Application Authoring
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10. How we collect “soft” data and communicate
what needs to be done
Role based
Rule Based
Electronic
checklists
Weekly
assessments
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11. ITBuzz delivers the numbers
Cut reporting effort
up to 2 hours per person/week and
10 hours per project manager / week
Reduce rework by up to 40%
Improve productivity by up to 30%
12. Summary
Control room
Process data against
rules and best practices
Gathers and filters data from
each of the domain areas
A completely integrated system
PerformancePerformance becomes increasingly standard as expectations are communicated and re-enforced more often
Buzz identifies five IT management domains, shown here:Portfolio Management. This establishes standard criteria for evaluating proposals making it easier to compare projects on an apples-to-apples basis. It ensures that all work is authorized, valuable, aligned, and balanced. Project Management. Ensures that the project’s cost, scope, schedule and risk profile are fully developed, documented and agreed upon by all stakeholders before development starts. You can verify that the project plan is feasible from the point of view of the team charged with the work. Service Management. Service Management provides oversight of the IT products and services deployed to support the day-to-day operations of your business. It monitors performance, stability, conformance to service level commitments, fit-for-purpose and helps track end user satisfaction.Capability Management. Leverage experience on concluded projects to refine your formal processes for future projects. This includes processes for estimating the work required, managing the risks, controlling scope, handling communications. Results Management. Find out how your projects performed. Did you deliver on time and on budget? Did you deliver all the functionality that was expected? Did the project result in a high quality solution? These five domains form two closed (feedback) loops: <click> one for service delivery and <click> one for process improvement with Project Management (the original APO) lying at the conjunction of the two.
The soft and hard data behind the dashboards. This is an example of the virtual MBWA data collected.We can look at this by project, organization, portfolio of projects…… all the way down to the person.