Business strategy workshop

The Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Business Strategy Workshop is a program developed to provide your organization with the tools, expertise and assistance needed to build your EPM Business Strategy and Deployment Plan.  This workshop provides your organization with all the workings of a business plan to help your organization successfully deploy an EPM Solution.

A successful implementation of an EPM Solution in your organization involves more than simply deploying the technology. While the Microsoft technology basis of EPM Solution platforms provide a rich set of project management features, you must carefully plan for your solution deployment before you install the software in your system.

Managing Complexity to Achieve Success

Because all EPM Solutions integrate people, processes, and organizational goals with technology, deploying an EPM Solution requires the development of, or changes to, business processes and organizational goals. The initiative involves not only establishing enterprise standards for project management but also generating consensus on the approach, sponsorship from key management, and the EPM Initiative team. In addition you must prioritize the capabilities of an EPM system for phased implementation. Finally, successful adoption depends on integrating EPM with new and existing business processes, designing the appropriate system configuration, and managing the EPM system technologies. True success is about driving organizational change toward a project management culture while leveraging the EPM Solution’s functional capabilities on a solid technology infrastructure.

The Need for a Structured Approach and Subject Matter Expertise

An EPM Solution is comprised of sophisticated technologies.  Implementation involves more than simply deploying the technology. Addressing the challenges requires a precise understanding the needs of the business, a prioritization of those requirements and the cultural change that the organization will undergo.  Getting the right design installed in an optimal configuration and scalable technology architecture are your organization’s ultimate goals.  Engaging an EPM Solution Specialist with extensive experience in creating custom blueprints for developing, configuring, and deploying quality project management solutions enables success.

Workshop Outline

This EPM Business Strategy Workshop will consist of envisioning, requirements gathering, project and solution scoping and business process assessment to support the implementation of an EPM environment.  This execution will enable your team to effectively scope the effort, timeline and expected benefits for the development, stabilization, training and support phases of an EPM deployment. 

As a result of the EPM Business Strategy Workshop, you will receive an EPM Value Brief that will include the following:

Envisioning

The envisioning portion of the EPM Business Strategy Workshop addresses one of the most fundamental requirements for project success—unification of the project team behind a common vision. The team must have a clear vision of what it wants to accomplish. Envisioning, by creating a high-level view of the project’s goals and constraints, will serve as an early form of planning; it sets the stage for the more formal planning process that will immediately follow.

Requirements Gathering

The requirements gathering portion of the EPM Business Strategy Workshop clarifies the business vision for the resulting system and defines the business goals and objectives to ensure that the resulting EPM solution effectively addresses the business’ needs.  To accomplish this, your EPM Solutions Specialist will capture all requirements needed to design the EPM Solution that best aligns with your organization’s vision, business needs and culture.  Topics addressed in the definition workshop include but may not be limited to:

Demand Management

Portfolio Management

Project Management

Collaboration

Operational Management

You can expect to achieve the following benefits as a direct result of the EPM Business Strategy Workshop: