SharePoint based Resource Planning and What-if Analysis

Project Manager — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:58:59 +0000

By combining resource workload on both project and non-project work in a single dynamic view, resource managers have a true picture of resource loading. With EPM Live’s Resource Planner, view Resource Workload across any SharePoint list (All Work), view Resource Availability by Scalable Time-phase, perform What-If Analysis on Resource Workload and Availability, and group resources by Attributes (Department, Skills, Roles, etc.). Please visit www.epmlive.com for more information

Vator Box – The business of project planning

Project Manager — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:58:46 +0000

Would Emergence Capital’s Jason Green invest in LiquidPlanner, a project-management software?This week, we look at LiquidPlanner, an online project management software tool that helps companies work more efficiently on projects. The software as a service (SaaS) includes shared work spaces, Twitter-like short-messaging functionality (or what Liquid Planner calls workplace chatter, and the ability to manage multiple projects. To analyze this project management tool, we brought in Jason Green, a venture capitalist at Emergence Capital, whose specialty is software as a service (SaaS) companies. Green, joined myself as well as Ezra Roizen, Vator Box regular and digital media investment banker.I won’t go into the highlights here. I’ll just get to the punch line. Both Green and Roizen suggest that Liquid Planner go deep into a vertical and provide a compelling project management … [vator.tv read more]

Softlean ERP 2009, Project Management, Estimation , Planning & Budgeting

Project Manager — Sat, 01 May 2010 07:00:15 +0000

softleanerp.com Use SoftleanERP 2009 for Construction project management, estimation, budgeting, material & resource planning etc. Get integrated construction project management solution within single ERP system with a very low cost and implemented with 50% of your current IT Budget.

Project Management Team Communication – Planning

Project Manager — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:59:10 +0000

www.pmrealworld.com Are you overwhelmed with multiple project management? Do you need some effective group collaboration software? This video will show you some of the benefits of Project Management for the Real World as collaboration software for small business. This is a web-based affordable Project Management Software. This basic Project Management software enables affordable collaboration among groups handling multiple projects, solving your multiple project management headaches.

Risk management in Project & Planning

Project Manager — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:56:45 +0000

                                      RISK MANAGEMENT  IN PROJECT & PLANNING

  ABSTRACT

In businesses, risk management entails organized activity to manage, uncertainity and threats and involves people following procedures and using tools in order to ensure conformance with risk-management policies. The Risk Management Plan is dependant upon the identification of the projects risks, their criticality, status, strategy and status.The good news is that managers can make project and planning as one of their strengths. The result will be better risk management, more effective management and greater satisfaction from working with people.

INTRODUCTION

              Risk management is activity directed towards the assessing, mitigating (to an acceptable level) and monitoring of risks In some cases the acceptable risk may be near zero. Risks can come from accidents, natural causes and disasters as well as deliberate attacks from an adversary. The main ISO standards on risk management .In businesses, risk management entails organized activity to manage,uncertainity and threats and involves people following procedures and using tools in order to ensure conformance with risk-management policies. The strategies include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effect of the risk, and accepting some or all of the consequences of a particular.

Project Risk Management

A risk is something that may happen and if it does, will have a positive or negative impact on the project. A few points here. “That may happen” implies a probability of less then 100%. If it has a probability of 100% – in other words it will happen – it is an issue. An issue is managed differently to a risk and we will handle issue management in a later white paper. A risk must also have a probability something above 0%. It must be a chance to happen or it is not a risk. The second thing to consider from the definition is “will have a positive or negative impact”. Most people dive into the negative risks but what if something goes right?

Management Plan

There are four stages to risk management planning. They are: ·

Risk Identification

          There are different sorts of risks and we need to decide on a project by project basis what to do about each type. Business risks are ongoing risks that are best handled by the business. An example is that if the project cannot meet end of financial year deadline, the business area may need to retain their existing accounting system for another year. The response is likely to be a contingency plan developed by the business, to use the existing system for another year. Generic risks are risks to all projects. For example the risk that business users might not be available and requirements may be incomplete. Each organisation will develop standard responses to generic risks.

Risk Response

There are four things you can do about a risk. The strategies are:

A risk response plan should include the strategy and action items to address the strategy. The actions should include what needs to be done, who is doing it, and when it should be completed.

Risk Control

The final step is to continually monitor risks to identify any change in the status, or if they turn into an issue. It is best to hold regular risk reviews to identify actions outstanding, risk probability and impact, remove risks that have passed, and identify new risks.

Risk management is not a complex task. If you follow the four steps, you can put together a risk management plan for a project in a short space of time.

Risk Management Plan

1. Purpose

The purpose of the risk management plan is to document the process and methods that the project team will employ to monitor identified risk, identify and evaluate potential trigger events (indicated an imminent risk event), implement and monitor risk containment strategies and assess on an ongoing basis project progress and activities to identify potential risk events not identified during project plan development.

2. Team Roles & Responsibilities

The project team will review/manage risks in the weekly project status meeting. See the risk log for a listing of identified risk and risk owners.

3. Risk Change Review & Approval Process

As new risks are identified or existing risks expire, the Risk Management Plan will be updated. Risks will be reviewed on a weekly basis in the project status meeting. The plan will be maintained in the project’s SharePoint site.

What is a Risk Management Plan?

A Risk Management Plan summarizes the proposed risk management approach for the project and is usually included as a section in the business plan. The Risk Management Plan is dependant upon the identification of the projects risks, their criticality, status, strategy and status. The risk Management Plan describes:

Why would you develop a Risk Management Plan and Risk Management Table?

A Risk Management Plan and Risk Management Table are developed to:

How do you develop a Risk Management Plan?

The following is one way to develop your plan. It consists of a series of steps that become iterative throughout the life of your project. Firstly:

Step 1: Identify the risks

Before risks can be properly managed, they need to be identified. One useful way of doing this is defining categories under which risks might be identified. For example, categories might include Corporate Risks, Business Risks, Project Risks and System Risks. These can be broken down even further into categories such as environmental, economic, human, etc. Another way is to categorize in terms of risks external to the project and those that are internal. For a medium to large project, start by conducting a number of meetings or brainstorming sessions involving (as a minimum) the Project Manager, Project Team members, Steering Committee members, external key stakeholders. It is often advisable to use an outside facilitator for this. Preparation may include an environmental scan, seeking views of key stakeholders etc. One of the most difficult things is ensuring that all major risks are identified. For a small project, the Project Manager may develop the Risk Management Table perhaps with input from the Executive Sponsor/Senior Manager and colleagues, or a small group of key stakeholders.

Step 2: Analyze and evaluate the Risks

Once you have identified your risks you should analyze them by determining how they might affect the success of your project.Risks can result in four types of consequences:

1.benefits are delayed or reduced;

2.timeframes are extended;

3.outlays are advanced or increased; and/or

4.output quality (fitness for purpose) is reduced.

Risks should be analyzed and evaluated in terms of occurrence of occurring and Severity of impact if they do occur. Firstly, assess the occurrence of the risk occurring and give this a rating of Low (L), Medium (M) or High (H) occurrence. Once you have rated the occurrence, assess the Severity of the impact of the risk if it did occur and rate at Low (L), Medium (M) or High (H) Severity.

RISK MANGEMENT ASSESSMENT IN PROJECT

Risk assessment validates that your project will succeed. Software development experts evaluate and test the software-based technical and business risks as they relate to your business, market, and service plans. The significant risks are identified and detailed in comprehensive Risk Event Descriptions. You are also provided with a quantification of each risk’s impact on cost, revenue, and schedule.CONCLUSION

People and risk are as integral to farming as are weather, prices and technology. Project and planning must have careful attention if managers are to have a full understanding of their sources of risks and their alternatives for handling risk. Managers’ paradigms, understanding of project and planning resource skills determine the success they will have with people. . The good news is that managers can make project and planning as one of their strengths. The result will be better risk management, more effective management and greater satisfaction from working with people.

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