Challenges addressed by PM3
PM3 provides solutions for a range of challenges in managing large and/or complex programmes and projects, as set out in the table below:
Challenge |
PM3 solution |
Project Managers lost in the proliferating detail of micro-managing project tasks and resources |
Focuses on project objectives and outcomes i.e. what has to be achieved and why rather than project tasks (i.e. how it is achieved); in particular, focuses on business value outcomes |
Programme Managers, Executives and Sponsors with responsibility for programmes of projects unable to see the ‘big picture’ owing to being blinded by the morass of project tasks, issues and risks |
Allows milestone planning at any level in the programme/project hierarchy. For example, allowing Programme Managers to milestone plan their programmes even before the projects within their programmes are planned.
Provides facilities for key milestones, issues and risks to be promoted/demoted up/down programme/project hierarchies, so allowing Programme Managers/Executives/Sponsors to focus on managing key programme outcomes without being dragged into underlying detail/’noise’ |
Programme Managers, Executives and Sponsors unable to get a complete and consistent view of programme/project progress and status owing to inconsistencies in progress/status reporting across the organisation |
Provides a single, commercially pragmatic, outcome-driven, objective approach to programme/project progress and status reporting across the organisation |
A range of typically manually-intensive, error-prone, unreliable tools used to automate programme/project status reporting |
Replaces the typically Excel-based spreadsheet ‘systems’ with a less error-prone, less manual-intensive, more reliable, easier to use, more integrated and intuitive single repository that provides automated regular reporting |
