How Aptage works with complex projects

1. Aptage for
Complex Projects

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Why you need Aptage for Complex Products
• You have a complex project with:
• Deadlines
• Hard dependencies
• Multiple teams
• You stakeholders need to be confident
as to when effort will be completed
• However, this project has uncertainties
• Novelty
• New designs, architecture
• New teams
• Vendors
• Hardware/Software
Products
• Complex Systems
• Construction

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Why you need Aptage for Complex Products
• You have a complex project with:
• Deadlines
• Hard dependencies
• Multiple teams
• You stakeholders need to be confident
as to when effort will be completed
• However, this project has uncertainties
• Novelty
• New designs, architecture
• New teams
• Vendors
• Hardware/Software
Products
• Complex Systems
• Construction
With uncertainty comes
schedule risk

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The all too common conversation
How
long will
it take?
Beats
me.
I really
need to
know!
Too
bad!

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The better conversation
They both have a valid point:
• The manager needs to commit to the stakeholders
• The team lead cannot make a firm commitment
However they know enough estimate the duration of
• E.g. Best case, likely case, worse

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With Aptage, know the odds of success
• The uncertainty is natural and inevitable
• Firm estimates require complete knowledge of
the future
• When embarking and managing a project you can
either:
• Be in denial
• Embrace and manage the risk
• Every project is a gamble.
• Don’t you want to know and manage the odds
of success?

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With Aptage, know the odds of success
• The uncertainty is natural and inevitable
• Firm estimates require complete knowledge of
the future
• When embarking and managing a project you can
either:
• Be in denial
• Embrace and manage the risk
• Every project is a gamble.
• Don’t you want to know and manage the odds
of success?
Often the most valuable
projects are the riskiest.

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Proprietary AI that integrates
the best thinking about
managing uncertainty and risk.
Elicit ranges,
not averages
Utilize team beliefs
as probabilities
Delphi
Game theory
Leverage intuition
& mathematics
Improve Your Odds with Aptage
Our team, has a unique combination of:
• Data science (the mathematics of uncertainty)
• Deep domain knowledge (econ of development)
Only Innovation A.I. solution that is:
• Cloud based SaaS Solution
• Provides delivery and decision support in the
face of uncertainty
• Continuously learns and predicts likelihood of
success.
• Proprietary Algorithms
• Intuitive, Usable and Interactive
AI Platform for
Projects

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Aptage for Complex Projects for project delivery
Identifies risk of delivery through the project lifecycleUses clients’ project Data
Risk must go down for success

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Enter your team’s uncertainty using our optional template
Expected Duration
Risk Flags
Best/Worst Case

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Summary and detailed task projections

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Resource availability and completion rate

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With Aptage you avoid these project shortcomings
Status
Green-Green-
Green-RED!
Game of Chicken
Waiting for other
team’s to fail first
Whack-a-
Mole
Shuffling to
fight fires
Death
Marches
unsustainable

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Aptage for Complex Projects Benefits
• You can deliver more value with more
confidence and less drama
• You can have improved culture for
managing and communicating risk
• You can augment your staff pm skill
with AI support