Pinnacle’s implementation strategy is aimed at delivering a practical, effective solution that provides tangible return on investment. The strategy balances risk, schedule and cost and focuses on business benefits. The implementation strategy guiding principles are as follows:
Prioritize for Quick, Business Value: This includes anchoring the implementation schedule to the solution releases; deploying first to areas in the organizations with prioritized strategic mandates; and focusing on foundational components of the practices.
Minimize Business Disruption: This includes avoiding projects requiring complex data conversion for pilot purpose; and avoiding projects in a "crunch" period.
Reduce Risk to Adoption: This includes initially piloting fundamental practices and capabilities on projects with minimal external stakeholders. validating each project application in the ecosystem before mass deployment.
Preserve Practice Functionality Throughout the Implementation: This includes ensuring that project teams continue to have access to existing functionality in areas not yet deployed until the ecosystem is complete; and building temporary interfaces to the legacy systems.
Configuration is performed through a series of topical configuration workshops with participation from key personnel representing relevant business areas. Our approach is simple.
First, we begin with end in mind, focusing on the key outputs of the system.
Second, we educate as we go, ensuring that participants understand the practical application of configuration choices. We practice a rapid-prototyping approach, allowing stakeholders to see the results of configuration options as quickly as possible.
Finally, we document configuration decisions and rationale in a living Configuration Document that is placed under change control.
Whether your EPM system needs to feed data to a dashboard, earned value management, or financial system, or you need to pull data from your CRM or ERP system, our technical staff has the skills and experience to ensure seamless data flow in and out of Project Server.
Our consultants understand the data architecture of Project Server and can work with oData tables, .NET Client-Side Object Model (CSOM), or low code/no code solutions using Power Automate. We also have expertise enabling SharePoint workflows to create custom solutions that drive your business forward.
Whether you choose an on-premise or cloud deployment, our consultants are here to support you all the way.
Our deployment approach focuses on user adoption of the system to maximize return on investment. We work directly with the user community as the product is deployed, providing one-on-one mentoring and support as needed to ensure success. Our goal is to enable your project teams to be self-sufficient and receive value from the system as soon as possible.
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Read More >Founded in 1993, Pinnacle provides a project management related professional services including management consulting, technology implementation & integration, and project support services. We have extensive experience implementing and optimizing organizational capabilities for Enterprise Project Management (EPM), Project Portfolio Management (PPM), and Integrated Program Management (IPM) / Earned Value Management (EVM).
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