Archive for the ‘Programme Management’ Category

Managing programme & project dependencies 101

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

This tutorial introduces the new programme and project dependency matrix functionality that have recently become available in Psoda.

What are project or programme dependencies?

Projects may sometimes depend on other projects, for example if the budget of project A changes this might impact project B as there might be a fixed budget for the overall programme, or overruns in project A’s schedule may mean that resources are not available to start working on project B.

There may also be dependencies between projects and programmes, or even between programmes. This is especially true in larger organisations where multiple projects or even multiple programmes may be active at the same time. (more…)

More searching…

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

We have completed our testing and the search function is now available across your whole programme and project database.

The image below shows an example search result:

Search results

The search function allows you to search all of the text fields for all of the items within a specific project, programme or across the whole organisation. The search is of course limited to those items that the user has read access to.

Budget management 101

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Most programmes and projects are subject to the Triple Constraints of budget, schedule and scope. It is the first of these constraints that we are discussing today.

For your programme or project to be successful is has to stay within the approved budget. The approved budget can be either the original baseline budget or it can include approved changes.

Even if the budget is only loosely constrained you want to track the actual expenditure for reporting purposes.

This article describes some of the basic principles of budget management including forecasting, baselines, approved changes, actual expenditure and variance.

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