Five Ideas: Project Management
- by Sylvie MacKenzie, PMP
Except from Profit Magazine
“For everyone to put on the project manager hat and standardize the
way every single thing is done means that now the whole organization is
on the same page as to what needs to occur from the time a hurricane
hits Haiti and when a boat pulls in to unload supplies.” —Rich
D’Addario, consulting project manager in the Primavera Global Business
Unit at Oracle, on helping AmeriCares deliver aid to Haiti
“Primavera
P6 Analytics generates information that can help organizations improve
their utilization and trim down overall operating costs. But more
importantly, it gives organizations improved visibility.” —Yasser Mahmud, vice president of product strategy and industry marketing in Oracle’s Primavera Global Business Unit
“Organizations
are constantly looking for ways to improve the speed and precision of
their decisions and work without creating environments and systems that
limit their personnel through rigid structures and inflexible processes.
The latest release of Primavera Portfolio Management meets this demand
by further streamlining processes and supporting enhanced
decision-making, helping drive better value from portfolios. In
addition, the new UI clearly demonstrates Oracle's commitment to
providing a seamlessly integrated enterprise project portfolio
management product suite.” —Mike Sicilia, senior vice president, Oracle's Primavera
“Make
it a business project, not an IT project. All levels of functional
management must have ownership, responsibility, and accountability for
the success of the implementation.” —from Eaton Operations Services Manager Marcos Baccetto's 9 Project Management Tips
“AEC
firms must strategically pursue standardization opportunities in the
project management area while preserving the spirit of entrepreneurism
and flexibility at an individual project manager level. An enterprise
technology platform doesn't only help with standardization of key
project management processes across the enterprise; it also improves
performance management, team collaboration and client specific reporting
at an individual project level.” —Maneesh Chhabra is a director of Industry Strategy and Insight at Oracle
