Fortune 100 Telecom Company: Multiple Project Application
Initial Situation:
- Projects rarely delivered on time
- Project scope compromised significantly
- Extensive overtime to minimize lateness
- Resources assigned to many tasks on many projects with no clear priorities set
- Lack of solid information on which to base project decisions
Client Objectives:
- Implement first with individual projects, then build to multiple project scheduling
- Create project templates to reduce time spent building networks for repeated projects
- Design an effective, easy-to-read report showing status of all projects for management and project workers
- Establish clear project and task priorities
The ProChain Solution:
- Integrated multiple project effort
- Network design and analysis principles
- Conceptual education at multiple levels of the organization
- Strategy sessions to target problem areas with metrics and to implement solutions
- Software training and report customization
- On-going consulting services to ensure new work practices established and institutionalized
Results Achieved:
- Average project length reduced by more than 50%
- On-time delivery of projects went from 40% to nearly 100%
- More than doubled project throughput
- No increase in personnel
- ROI is off the charts