Enterprise Project Management; An Overview

Is your organization managing multiple projects or programs? Are you challenged with integrating all these projects into a cohesive picture for senior management? Are you having trouble juggling project priorities and allocating resources to meet competing demands? Do you feel you need an integrated, consistent framework for project planning and control across your organization?

These are the kinds of issues and challenges that many our clients face and why organizations of all shapes and sizes are turning to the emerging discipline of Enterprise Project Management (EPM).

In a nutshell, EPM is a disciplined approach to project management and resource management that looks at all the project (and sometimes non-project) work in an organization as a collective whole.  EPM often involves some or all of the following elements:

• Adopting consistent project management methods and processes across the organization
• Scaling or tailoring the PM process based on project type, size, risk, complexity or other factors
• Establishing an enterprise-level Project Management Office (ePMO) to establish and support standard processes and tools, and to establish a unified framework for enterprise project reporting and resource/cost analysis
• Establishing a project life-cycle model and stage-gate processes to guide and control projects through the life cycle
• Establishing strategic project control and governance processes to decide on project investments and resource allocation
• Selecting and deploying enterprise level project management tools to promote consistency and support project data integration

Pinnacle is an expert at EPM planning and implementation, with a successful track record and methods proven across many industries. Our experience can help our clients shorten the time, reduce the cost and avoid the pitfalls involved in EPM implementation.

We have deep experience in many of the leading EPM tools, including those from leading vendors such as:

• EcoSys EPC
• Microsoft
• Oracle Primavera
• Deltek
• forProject
• and many others

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