Program execution management
Enhancing executive insight into program performance by providing real-time dashboards
Benefits Summary • Facilitates program Teamcenter® software dramatically enhances program execution monitoring, program control management by enabling executives, product managers and program and program-related managers to increase their visibility into program performance, broaden communications throughout their control over program execution and more accurately account for the enterprise program execution. To facilitate this new approach, Teamcenter combines • Improves program efficiency its unsurpassed knowledge management, process orchestration and by rapidly providing decision project management capabilities with real-time dashboard functionality. makers with substantive Teamcenter’s next-generation solution provides total visibility to the most product, process and up-to-date and complete program information, including a program’s rolled program knowledge on a up performance metrics, process metrics, custom strategy-specific KPI and real-time basis risk analysis metrics. • Reduces costs by enabling management to more Real-time solution for a new generation of performance efficiently allocate program management initiatives resources To meet today’s demands for increased corporate accountability, Teamcenter • Provides continuous visibility provides a single program execution management solution that integrates to target-related Siemens PLM Software’s world-renowned knowledge management, process performance knowledge management and project management capabilities with executive dashboard • Improves productivity by functionality that enabling managers to heightens a schedule and allocate their company’s ability to resources more effectively monitor, control and level these resources and improve the across workflow-driven performance of development processes individual take-to- • Reduces management risk by market programs. enabling executives to comprehensively understand Traditionally, exec program status at any utive managers instance leveraged one set of systems to perform project management (planning and execution) and another set of systems to perform
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Features program management (status and As a result, your Teamcenter-driven • Real-time access to changes reporting). To make better business program plan-and-execute solution can: • Collaborative build decisions and improve their return-on- scheduling investment, today’s program leaders want Easily facilitate best practices – such as • Web-based user interface to shift the focus from isolated solutions “stage-gate” management – by allowing • Automatic generation of to a single integrated solution that can you to tie project tasks into information tasks that reflect project- perform multiple mission-critical product workflows. This high-level process schedule details lifecycle functions so that their orchestration enables companies to extend • Ability to leverage companies can: the value of workflow to the overall new Teamcenter’s process • Reduce the enterprise’s built-in overhead product development process while management capabilities • Eliminate multiple information sources facilitating integrated project and resource to assign resources to that prevent people from attaining their management. As a result, companies are project tasks full productivity able to reduce the implementation burden • Automatic reflection of event • Synchronize the environment’s on key personnel at the same time they updates in project status unaligned product, process and extend the transformational scope of the reports project data workflow initiative. • Ability to display process- • Provide decision makers with immediate related progress in real-time access to the most up-to-date Eliminate last-minute unexpected dashboard views program data surprises by enabling program managers • Ability to relate project tasks to monitor a process and examine its to the requirements that In functional terms, Teamcenter’s program deliverable state (in essence, providing drive them execution management solution enables managers with a better feel for a project by • Visualization and management teams to: allowing them to evaluate both its current management of resource • Create, maintain and monitor project status and the tangible data or documents workloads schedules that reflect fine-grain tasks, that validate its delivery). • Validation of resource dependencies, milestones and start/ demand through group-level finish dates Increase the visibility of everyone who histograms • Connect these schedules into automated participates in the product lifecycle. For Robust color coding/ processes that reflect repeatable rules, example, Teamcenter enables engineers to visual markers: user roles and workflow definitions know when and where dependent • Color-coded tasks and • Leverage templates to rapidly facilitate information will be coming from, as well project-level status process automation and improvement as understand the project’s time and • Automatic color-coded • Directly relate these processes to the resource constraints. Similarly, project updates for past due items product/program data generated by managers have insight into the • Visual markers on these processes engineering and manufacturing world, linked tasks where they can see what pressure points • Visual markers on automated Teamcenter’s unique and powerful are building up. email notifications integration between project management, Executive dashboards: process management and knowledge Teamcenter is especially adept at enabling • Project/program-level status management transforms today’s isolated these various lifecycle participants to work and progress reporting environments from plan-then-status to a with their desktop tools of choice – and • Earned value reporting plan-and-execute solution that delivers eliminate the need for expensive cross • Resource allocation status 24x7x365 program visibility. training or data centralization while • Budget versus actual status compressing the time it takes for individual • Baseline reporting users to complete their program • Export to spreadsheets management tasks. By integrating with • Highly configurable (known Microsoft Project Desktop to consolidate information refresh rates to multiple Microsoft projects into a virtual presentation cache) workspace, users can view the • Microsoft Project Desktop interdependencies among projects, integration perform critical-path analysis and examine costs and resources at the program level. Teamcenter
Features continued Equally important, Teamcenter provides The report goes on say that project and Advanced template executive dashboards that are directly program management play a significant environment: linked to decision-making metrics and role in helping companies achieve their • Work breakdowns/schedules analysis tools. This improved visibility product innovation initiatives. Then, • Generic resource assignment enables management to more accurately the report provides the following • Links to knowledge/process predict what issues will arise during the basic definition. management execution of individual projects, as well as • Project cost parameters provide a tangible basis for guiding their A project management collaboration • Email notification business decisions. platform is used to define project • Task-level notebooks milestones and (project) groups, (as • Risk and issue databases Business context well as to) enforce performance • Scripting of Teamcenter- Project and program management is against these goals. Advanced project managed deliverables directly related to today’s highly prized management tools include data and criteria product innovation and product devel management event-alerting and • Orchestration of Teamcenter- opment initiatives. Consider the Aberdeen advanced workflow capabilities. managed workflows Group’s 2004 assessment of the role of Project management is key to process these transformational improvements in standardization and collaboration. Teamcenter products the consumer products industry1. • Engineering process Use case management (Consumer) companies are looking to Teamcenter’s program execution • Enterprise knowledge implement product innovation and management solution facilitates a variety foundation development to fuel the recovery. of use case scenarios. • Porfolio, program and project Aberdeen’s Product Development in the management Consumer Industries Benchmark Study found that more than three-quarters of consumer companies view new product development as a leading driver for revenue, profit and market share growth. And more than two-thirds of these firms will rely on new products to contribute a growing portion of total revenues over the next three years…
(However), most consumer products companies have not effectively aligned and standardized product development processes company-wide; and nearly a quarter of responding companies lacked any formal product development Improved decision-making Teamcenter’s procedures at all. Consumer companies dashboard provides executives and also reported only limited use of managers with extensive tracking and automation to manage product data reporting capabilities. Executives can and support product development receive summary updates that highlight processes... the status of all teams and projects. All stakeholders can request big picture views With this in mind, the Aberdeen Group’s to multiple project schedules in easy-to- comprehensive list of “recommendations read Gantt format, as well as cross-project for action” included a recommendation management reports that present that companies “establish common metrics and procedures for measuring product 1 Product Development in Consumer Industries development project milestones and Benchmark: Leading the Next Wave of Growth. performance.” Aberdeen Group, June 2004. Teamcenter
environment-wide project information. More predictable schedule, cost, The executive dashboard facilitates resource and risk analyses Teamcenter visibility to consolidated resource and cost enables program teams to create, maintain information, as well as best practice and monitor project schedules that reflect analysis. With 20 out-of-the-box reports fine-grain tasks, dependencies, milestones delivered in dashboard format, users have and start/finish dates. These tasks can be access to all vital information, including managed in automated processes that custom views oriented for executive users activate and close using decision-makers. Teamcenter’s process management capabilities. Team members can monitor Extended stakeholder involvement these schedules in real time by accessing Teamcenter brings all program team interactive views, including Gantt charts members together in a highly interactive that can be edited on a collaborative basis. environment, where they can communicate and share project-related Teamcenter enables users to plan and information on a real-time basis. manage product-related projects by taking Teamcenter is ideal for enterprises advantage of a robust series of comprised of widely dispersed users and organizational breakdown and resource highly diverse information assets. management capabilities. Entitled team Essentially, Teamcenter’s program members can define each project in terms execution management solution is one of of its related work tasks, associated tasks, several lifecycle process solutions that the resource required to execute each task leverage Teamcenter’s unified approach to and the skill sets needed by the resource in enterprise collaboration. These processes question. are especially adept at enabling all of the participants in the product lifecycle to work in concert across multiple lifecycle phases in order to bring an enterprise’s products to market and support its customer base.
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