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| Issue 02 - April 2005 - Enterprise Project Management |
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KLR's Newsletter is a complimentary service offered to IT and business professionals. Issued on a bi-monthly basis, it's intended to provide useful information related to the sector as well as updates and information regarding KLR.
This issue we've focused on Enterprise Project Management (EPM). We offer three articles providing insights on this topic.
An Executive Perspective on Enterprise Project Management
By: Ken Robertson
Fifteen years ago most CEOs thought of projects as thoseinitiatives in Engineering or IT. They were usually late, may or may not have delivered as expected, but were “unfortunately” necessary to keep the operation going. Things have certainly changed!
[Read article] (page 2)
Using EPM Tools in Your Project Management Office
By: Keith Gibson
So you’ve implemented a Project Management Office and you’ve heard Enterprise Project Management (EPM) is auseful tool to improve your project managers’ effectiveness. Is this true? The answer is: “maybe”.
[Read article] (page 3)
Enterprise Project Management Benefits
By: KLR EPM Team
An organization’s ability to effectively align resources with strategic objectives can provide competitive and/or service advantage. Using a project centric orientation to managing pools of resources can help organizations better align their resources in terms of their overall project and work portfolio. Fulfillment of strategic goals can become a reality, if appropriate technology capable of supporting core business processes is employed. An Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is one approach to provide this infrastructure, enabling an organization to gain: visibility, insight, and control over a portfolio of projects, as well as improve productivity, reduce cycle times, decrease costs, and increase quality.
[Read article] (page 4)
KLR News and Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
KLR & Microsoft Present: Enterprise Project Management (EPM)
Designed specifically for IT decision makers in the public sector, 'Towards an Agile Government' is a series of discussions to help you meet the challenge of improving service delivery to citizens and business while maintaining or reducing expenditures.
KLR Consulting, a Microsoft partner for Project Server 2003, has expertise in the effective implementation of this product. This session discusses the use of EPM in the public sector to help get your organization to where you need to be.
In an era of shrinking budgets, resource constraints and increasing workloads, top-down planning, project management and progress reporting are critical requirements at all levels of government. Nowhere is this more critical than in IT, as public sector organizations deliver visible, high risk projects to improve service delivery to citizens or drive down internal costs.
EPM provides transparency into the project portfolio and automates reporting processes within an organization. Through EPM, executives and project team members can participate directly in the project lifecycle via easy to use tools that enable collaboration and executive insight and control into project portfolios.
This event is intended for business and technical decision makers.
Please join us:
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Victoria Conference Centre |
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Thursday, May 26th |
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8:00 AM to 10:30 AM |
Click here if you wish to pre-book for this event or call 250-414-7457.
How About a Little Humor?...
The Project Manager’s Dictionary
- Major Technological Breakthrough: Back to the drawing board.
- Project slightly behind original schedule due to unforeseen difficulties: We are working on something else.
- The designs are well within allowable limits: We just made it, stretching a point or two.
- Customer satisfaction is believed assured: We are so far behind schedule that the customer was happy to get anything at all from us.
- Close project coordination: We should have asked someone else; or, let's spread the responsibility for this.
- The design will be finalized in the next reporting period: We haven't started this job yet, but we've got to say something.
- A number of different approaches are being tried: We don't know where we're going, but we're moving.
- Test results were extremely gratifying: It works, and are we surprised!
- Extensive effort is being applied on a fresh approach to the problem: We just hired three new guys; we'll let them kick it around for a while.
- Preliminary operational tests are inconclusive: The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.
- The entire concept will have to be abandoned: The only guy who understood the thing quit.
- Modifications are underway to correct certain minor difficulties: We threw the whole thing out and are starting from scratch.
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KLR is a full service business and Information Technology Consulting firm. Our goals are to:
- Transfer Knowledge
- Provide Leadership
- Deliver Results
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To provide these services our consultants have complementary skills in Project, Change and Transformation Management.
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KLR Consulting Inc.
Vancouver Office
200 - 4170 Still Creek Drive
Burnaby, B.C.
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Victoria, B.C.
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