Daptiv PPM Review

Scenario 1

Most businesses experience peak periods when current resources do not address full demand across a range of projects. In peak periods, the PMO manager may find new demands emerging across initiatives, while he also finds that several project managers each believe their work is the highest in priority for the business. Individual project managers learn that the current team is overworked and unable to fulfill competing requests. In order to address these challenges long-term, the PMO manager identifies business priorities and works with project managers to arrive at a governance plan which will reach across the project portfolio. He then uses Daptiv PPM to implement an intake process and a prioritization scheme to evaluate projects with common governance. As a result, the PMO begins staffing and starting projects when resources are available. The new processes alleviate the strain on the team while they create a path to better results, which correspond to business priorities.

Features in Daptiv PPM including the customized prioritization model, the capacity planner, early stage resource requirements definition, and work intelligence enable these results.

Scenario 2

For an organizational leader such as a director of engineering, it can be difficult to understand what projects his staff is working on, and what the status is for each one. In order to address the problem, he uses Daptiv PPM to implement a portfolio monitoring process that defines a common method for reporting and tracking status, issues, risks and change across the current product development projects. Daptiv PPM helps him to create insights which he uses to support his people in their projects, and to address issues on behalf of his entire team. As a result, he can deliver new product capabilities more predictably, including on time and within budgetary constraints.

Features in Daptiv PPM including project templates, issue application, dynamic applications, configurable custom fields, work intelligence for dashboards, and active reports enable these results.

Scenario 3

Teams sometime track resource assignment in spreadsheets. When they do, they typically find that this does not reflect resources’ true availability. While the spreadsheet may be useful for decision-making based on projects, it may not account for non-project activities and non-working activities, to reveal true availability. When an organization uses Daptiv PPM, planners can forecast all project, non-project and non-working time for resources. The planner can then track actual time spent in each time category and understand differences between planned and actual progress. Additionally, he/she can assess planned versus actual work, increase forecast accuracy, and better anticipate and address risks.

Features including project templates, non-project workspaces, timesheets, work intelligence for dashboards and automatic distribution of reports, and active reports enable these results.