On-time delivery improved from ~40% to >90%.
Over five years and hundreds of research milestones.
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Organization once lambasted for not hitting milestones now internally heralded as ‘a delivery machine’A Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company
Over five years and hundreds of research milestones.
And measurable productivity gains of >150% in key functions.
250 business and IT projects across more than 30 sites.
The one miss was a week late.
Two focused people did what usually took six, and faster.
New product launches, on or before the date they committed to.
A single-project pilot became the standard for one division, then spread to two others.
Every project hit its date. Then it became required for every project team.
The approach spread across the organization while maintaining excellent on-time performance.
Dates that used to slip on every project now hold on most of them.
And a key R&D project that couldn't make its date was stopped early, instead of showing green for months.
Worth a projected $95 million, and three major milestones delivered on or ahead of schedule.
Significantly ahead of schedule.
An R&D technology group that grew from serving 80 engineers to about 1,000.
And productivity rose 50%, across a portfolio of more than 500 projects.
On defense programs of more than 400 people and schedules of up to 3,000 tasks.
From changes the teams found while building the plans together.
Every project analyzed in one business line finished at least 20% faster than the company's own benchmark.
Senior management stopped needing a weekly execution review.
And later new-product projects finished on time and early.
Implementation expanded to most of the company's product development groups.
The team finished 11 projects in four months, against fewer than 3 a quarter before.
Investment recouped many times over.
And delivered its largest-ever contract, on time and under budget.
It started in one area, then spread to three more business units.
Time to market accelerated by 17%.
Direct quotes from the people doing the work.
Became a company that does what they say they are going to do.
We now have clarity. It helps us to see the finish line. We report to leadership with confidence.
2 people focused did faster what 6 people usually did part time
Schedules used to be “best guess”. Not anymore.
Now I feel like a conductor, steering and guiding the project, able to provide not only status of where we are, but also where we are going and how we will get there.
Priorities and Focus = Sustainable Project Delivery.
Compared to other projects, it's like night and day. We have much better sense of where we are.
After 18 years in this business, I now have a PM software application that can create an accurate schedule.
…greatly increased my team's ability to forecast project completion.
You will get bad news early (This was a surprise to the Team)
Previously, at the end of the day… I would ask, ‘What did I accomplish?’… Now I’m able to get some things done.
This has streamlined our ability to focus on our top priorities and optimize resource allocations.
We were able to see the problem early enough to act.
The schedule is OUR schedule; it is the team’s schedule. In a way, the schedule has helped the team develop a sense of camaraderie.
It really helps me focus and improves the quality of my work, because I'm not always forcing my brain to change gears multiple times in an hour.
Now I only spend about two hours a week working on the schedule.
Management is pleased with the reporting and commitment date performance.
Even the projects that missed their commitment date were completed much closer to the due date than prior to [ProChain].
I love that I can at any given time pull up the project flow and I know it is up to date … and I am buying it.
It sounds complex, but we really just push a button.
With ProChain, the team became united, moving together in a common direction down a path that was fully transparent and finally, well understood.
This would have saved me so many grey hairs.
The collaborative planning, clear priorities and resource modeling have all contributed to more predictable and reliable schedules.
I don't want to give up on it. The value add is potentially overwhelming.
Progress no longer stopped each time something changed or was not fully vetted
Because of ProChain we are able to have more meaningful communication and clearly communicate priorities.
Schedules have been proven to be credible and believable
It makes it easy to tell the story. It makes things obvious.
This is the only thing that gives me visibility into what [others do], beyond simply seeing when they are late.
ProChain has become NATURAL for the team and they ask: “How does this affect the ProChain schedule?”
I didn’t think much of it at first, but now I’m a real convert.
Team members rely on schedule to help them prioritize
having clear numbers for taking one path or another path makes trade-offs possible
Been incredibly helpful and has created transparency immediately, which is hard to do.
[Without ProChain] we could be moving towards a delayed tape-out without us being aware of it.
Schedules at [the company] are credible and aggressive
…this was well worth the time and this is the best planned project I've known.
IT WORKS! Teams like it and get better results
We dig more than we used to into what is struggling and why.
There is more visibility on the project and what the team is working on.
Not going back to our old ways
[Without ProChain] we would be managing to wishful expectations instead of practical and pragmatic needs.
We would not have had a clear understanding of the work involved.
Presenting data on what can be accomplished via Pipeline was an eye opening experience for our management, and led to great conversations on project execution and corporate goals.
we’ve had much value in our relationship with ProChain. It’s highly important to us. It’s been a win-win from our perspective.
This kind of PM process has really improved our ability to work with each other as managers.
Without this tool and ProChain's help we would not be there; we would not reach our goal.
Teams would not want to give up [ProChain]
Once People Tried It They Didn’t Want To Go Back
The use of ProChain has greatly helped reduce the time needed to plan and execute [our] scale up activities