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Project Portfolio Management Solution
RedArch PPM is a comprehensive IT project portfolio management solution designed to help you transform PPM into a high-performing function.
It combines a rich framework of PPM best practices, market-leading software and tools, and experienced leadership, enabling you to:
- Proactively manage incoming demand
- Select the best projects for multiple IT portfolios
- Plan, manage and control projects across large teams, in a single, integrated toolset
- Enhance your Project Management Office, or fast-forward the launch of a new PMO
- Substantially improve the predictability and quality of project outcomes
- Deploy and manage consistent PPM practices across the IT organization
Best-Practice Foundation
RedArch PPM is built on a solid foundation of detailed best practices for PPM, designed to provide consistency, reliability and transparency throughout the project and portfolio life cycles.
Pre-defined standard practices for the full gamut of PPM processes are available via our cloud web application. They support the use of industry-accepted methodologies like Agile development, and can also be tailored to meet your IT organization’s unique requirements.
Market-Leading Software and Tools
RedArch’s best-practice foundation is the perfect blueprint for the tools you need to effectively execute PPM. It’s applicable and adaptable to just about any toolset, including integrated PPM applications.
To demonstrate our point, we’ve used RedArch’s IT PPM practices to configure Sciforma’s market-leading PPM suite.
The result is a unique solution that makes it easy to implement RedArch’s PPM best practices along with robust tools for end-to-end project and portfolio management, from annual budgeting to project selection, resource management, and project execution.
Already using another PPM suite? We can adapt our PPM best practices to work with your existing toolsets.
Experienced Leadership
Getting value from PPM requires more than standards and tools. You need to make change happen.
We’ve been helping clients implement process and system change for over 25 years.
Collaborating with your leaders, we provide the experienced guidance needed to get the IT organization ready for change, educate and coach your people, and drive the adoption of a new PPM culture.
Keep tabs on project portfolios
The Portfolio Dashboard, one of the key work products in RedArch PPM, provides a birds-eye view into the progress and status of each portfolio’s projects. It focuses attention on project exceptions that need immediate attention, and allows leaders to anticipate problems and direct corrective action before issues become acute.
RedArch’s best practices tell the backstory, explaining key project budget and financial concepts, as well as formulas for project exceptions. They also detail the steps portfolio leaders should take in order to address exceptions with project managers and track issue resolution.
Be proactive and responsive to client demand
You get insight into incoming demand before it hits the front door, using RedArch PPM with your supporting PPM toolset.
When requests for changes or new projects get submitted, it helps you balance the new work with existing projects and operations, refining the allocation of budget and resources to align with customer expectations and organizational objectives.
You’ll also improve communication and portfolio quality, by ensuring project requests are thoroughly analyzed, estimated and justified before they are submitted for portfolio consideration.
Engage stakeholders in collaborative project selection
With RedArch PPM, financial and human resources are allocated to projects using a rational, above-board process based on clear criteria and objective data that come directly from project plans. Portfolio selection is integrated to the organizational budgeting process, enabling easy reconciliation and comparison between cost center, portfolio and project budgets.
Consolidate project information into a single, integrated source of truth
Project tracking can be an administrative nightmare when you use separate applications and files to manage project schedules, status reports, issues, risks, resource utilization, time and expense reporting and project-vendor invoices.
RedArch PPM, in combination with your supporting PPM toolset, consolidates these islands of data into a single application, eliminating transcription and reconciliation between separate tools.
Empower the project team
You need your project team to hit the ground running. It’s much easier when the whole team understands the project, has a stake, and is actually involved in managing their own tasks.
With RedArch PPM, everyone on the team knows their role and has access to the information, tools, and capability they need to get actively engaged.
Team members manage and enter data for the tasks they own, allowing the PM to delegate planning and actual-data entry to the people in the know. The data rolls up seamlessly – to the summary task, to the project, to the portfolio.
What’s more, our cloud application provides complete project execution guidance, making delegation that much easier by disseminating knowledge and expertise to team members who need it, when they need it.
