The Real Value Behind Professional Services Automation: Synergy
Bringing together business functions creates a whole that is more than the sum of its parts. That's what synergy is all about, and here's how PSA can help you get there.
Workforce Management > Recruitment and Selection
Procrastinators Beware: The Time for PSA Is Now
You've found ways to streamline processes for your clients--but what about your own organization? The time has come to put the needs of your organization first. PSA can help.
Data Warehouse Tool Cost Matrix
There's a lot to consider when selecting a Data Warehouse toolset. Use this comprehensive tool evaluation matrix to guide your final selection.
Database Selection Form
Improved deliverable! Selecting a database can be a daunting task. Use this form to help you make the best choice based on selection criteria and product evaluation ratings. Don't understand the terms? Then check out the glossary.
Technical Requirements Survey
Engaged in the path of transforming their business processes, many organizations need to choose between multiple options available to satisfy their needs. This deliverable is a sample template discussed in the article "The Bumpy Road to Alternate Service Delivery", which presents some practical advice for the analysis and selection process.
PMXPO 2012
gantthead is once again excited to be bringing you our annual virtual conference and exhibition on Thursday, May 17, 2012. It's your opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and gain valuable knowledge all from the comfort of your home, office-or home office. Registration is FREE, so take a minute now and make sure you don't miss out on what promises to be one of the highest-value conference experiences in project management this year.
gantthead is once again excited to be bringing you our annual virtual conference and exhibition on Thursday, May 17, 2012. It's your opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and gain valuable knowledge all from the comfort of your home, office-or home office. Registration is FREE, so take a minute now and make sure you don't miss out on what promises to be one of the highest-value conference experiences in project management this year.
Tool Selection Criteria Matrix
Need help selecting a Data Warehouse toolset? You must consider many factors regarding vendor service and reputation, tool functionality and tool quality against your technical and business requirements when selecting Data Warehouse construction and implementation tools. Let this matrix guide your selection.
Statement of Principles
What is our purpose in acquiring and using an application package and what compromises are permissible? Determine the key business drivers, must-haves and tradeoffs before you begin the acquisition and implementation process. This information is critical to making a business case for a packaged application business solution.
Detail Pricing Model for Software Selection
You have your software choices narrowed down. Now it's time to look at the bottom line. Cost is always important in your software package selection. This spreadsheet will make sure there are no hidden costs that you haven't considered.
Environment Survey
Engaged in the path of transforming their business processes, many organizations need to choose between multiple options available to satisfy their needs. This deliverable is a sample template discussed in the article "The Bumpy Road to Alternate Service Delivery", which presents some practical advice for the analysis and selection process.
Options Comparison
Engaged in the path of transforming their business processes, many organizations need to choose between multiple options available to satisfy their needs. This deliverable is a sample template discussed in the article "The Bumpy Road to Alternate Service Delivery", which presents some practical advice for the analysis and selection process.
Recommendation Report
Engaged in the path of transforming their business processes, many organizations need to choose between multiple options available to satisfy their needs. This deliverable is a sample template discussed in the article "The Bumpy Road to Alternate Service Delivery", which presents some practical advice for the analysis and selection process.
E-Commerce Payment System Implementation Plan
Making your website e-commerce enabled is a big undertaking. Use this plan to make it more manageable.
Quality Review Checklist for Software Package Procurement
Buying a software package? How do you know which package best suits your business environment and which vendor will serve you best? This checklist will help you evaluate the key questions and tend to the important details of procuring the right packaged application.
Vendor Selection Questionnaire Checklist
Choosing package vendors is never easy. Let this checklist guide you in making that all important first cut.
Package Selection Project Plan
Here's a sample Project Plan (in Microsoft Project format) on which you can model your application package evaluation/selection project.
Data Warehouse Project Plan
Are you putting together a data warehouse? This Microsoft Project plan will help you keep tabs on all the complex stages and steps involved in building decision support systems and a knowledge-based applications architecture and environment.
Banking Package Implementation Plan
Deploying an application solution package in a banking environment is complicated and challenging. This Microsoft Project plan based on a real project shows you how.
Application Package Selection Plan
If you need a quick Application Selection Project, this plan is for you. Strategy, vendor evaluation and value streams are integrated with selecting the right package.
Technical Architecture Components
Itemize the software and middleware tools, hardware components and communication components that comprise your technical architecture, with justification for choosing each.
Search Engine Selection Matrix
What's the right search engine for your intranet site? This matrix will guide your decision.
Project Manager Selection Worksheet
You're a project sponsor with a number of project manager candidates. Who is right for the job? Use this worksheet to score candidates on a number of selection criteria.
Application Development Tool Selection Form
If you and your team have a bunch of application development tools to evaluate, use this form to make the job easier.
Project Pay Rule
Paying everyone working on the job site can get pretty complicated. Who gets paid what and when, and what happens when it's a holiday? Codify the project pay rules up front, and have your formulas handy. Your payroll people will thank you.
Brainstorming Session Worksheet
A crucial phase of the problem solving process is the brainstorming session. Use this worksheet to track and evaluate all ideas.
Human Resource Demographics Planner for Recruitment & Development
Use current demographic and marketplace constraints to your project’s competitive advantage.
Build An Idea Pipeline
Does your organization have the right processes in place to support the next great idea? Once an evaluation and selection framework is in place, aligning an “idea pipeline” with the project portfolio is crucial. Otherwise, your next star project might not even get a chance to soar doomed or less-promising initiatives drain resources.
Project Experience Checklist
When you are putting together a project management team, you need to know who has what skills as well as experience. This form will help you inventory what each team member brings to the table.
Be the Master of Your Domain by 'Thinking Performance'
It used to be that workers were simply beaten or intimidated to get them to perform. For some of us, this time continues, but for others the world has become more complex. We need an organizing principle for workforce management. Even though we are familiar with the traditional concepts of quality, cost, and time, these are merely measurements of some higher standard.
Data Warehouse Tool Selection Plan
This Microsoft Project plan can serve as a guide to evaluating vendor tools for your data warehouse. It includes a Gantt chart schedule and cost analysis for the complete tool selection process.
Problem Solving Project Plan
Problems come in all shape and sizes. They afflict all types of enterprises and teams. And, they mostly come unannounced and unexpected. Very often their impact on the operation is also very critical to its success. They need to be solved one way or another. But how do you go about solving them? Use this plan!
CRM Application Implementation
Get your next CRM implementation off on the right track with this extensive project plan.
Banking Services RFP Preparation
This project plan helps with the RFP process for selecting the banking services for the treasury department of a company.
Implementing SFA
Stay on top of your Sales Force Automation implementation with this project plan.
E-mail Marketing
Effective e-mail marketing campaigns can increase your profit, and your popularity. Stay focused using this project plan.
Migrating to a Hosted Service
Use this plan to cover the details of your migration to a hosted service.
Data Warehouse Database Tool Evaluation
An evaluation of relational database systems determines the most suitable engine for a data warehouse. This report is an example of a comparative analysis of data warehouse database tools.
Data Warehouse Extraction Tool Recommendation
How do you select the best data extraction/transformation toolset for your data warehouse? Evaluate features, functionality, vendor reputation... the works. Follow the example set by this robust tool evaluation.
Testing Tool Selection Form
Selecting the right testing tool means you must look at a myriad of factors and how well each candidate tool meets your application's testing requirements. This form will help you evaluate the candidates and select the best testing tool for your app.
Sample RFP for Replacing an Information System
Is your company about to select and implement a new information system? This sample RFP, taken from real life, was originally designed to address the current and future financial, trading and distribution operations needs of a large international company dealing with foreign countries, languages and currencies. But even if you don't have a large, international business, you'll find lots of good ideas on how to write your own killer RFP.
Problem Solving Guide
How do you develop a well-defined process that can help you ensure that you come up with the best solutions to problems given the limitations of time and information? Here's a five-stage solution.
Balanced Scorecard Template Series
This is the grandmother of all balanced scorecard templates! Here are 18 (count 'em, 18!) Excel templates that will help you develop a balanced score card from start to finish.
Who’s Keeping Score?
All organizations face significant challenges in planning for and managing their IT portfolios. These challenges can be addressed, in part, by the use of systematic processes for selecting and evaluating IT investments. Based on a framework created for federal agencies, here are some key components to consider including in your project portfolio-scoring model.
Make Those Meaningless Job Descriptions Disappear (Part 1 of 2)
Your job is too complex for a traditional job description. The same is probably true for those who work with you. Here's an idea: Get rid of the job descriptions and focus on role definitions to maximize performance.
Showing Off Your Stuff
Providing work samples is a long-standing practice in creative industries like advertising and journalism, but it's on the rise in other industries. What do you do when an interviewer asks for work samples?
Finding the Right Candidate (Part 2)
We've already explored the work necessary to prepare criteria to measure applicants against. In Part 2, we look at the interview and selection process--and consider the steps necessary to maximize your chances of making the right hire.
Recommendation Report Presentation
Engaged in the path of transforming their business processes, many organizations need to choose between multiple options available to satisfy their needs. This deliverable is a sample template discussed in the article "The Bumpy Road to Alternate Service Delivery", which presents some practical advice for the analysis and selection process.
Five Ways BPM Can Help PPM Boost Business Results
From Gartner PPM Summit
Research Vice President and Gartner Fellow Bill Rosser presents this session on how PPM can leverage its experience in the broad view of project selection, resource management and consistency of architecture, with added verification of delivered benefits.
Portfolio HEADWAY: Selecting the Right Projects: Just Because It Is A Great Project Doesn't Mean It Is The Right Project
A major step in any portfolio is ensuring that the organization selects the right projects to proceed with at the right time. While most projects have some merit, that merit has to be weighted against the value that other projects will bring to an organization. Not every project should be done right here and right now. This Portfolio HEADWAY webinar will examine the process of selecting a project--from documenting and screening the original idea, developing a business case, making the final selection and then prioritizing those selected projects. Join us for this webinar! This might just be the right presentation at the right time for you.
Making PMOs Profitable
Many PMOs are struggling to survive the cost-cutting knife, facing staff reductions and increased workloads. It is during these periods of adversity that PMO leaders must take steps to discard the PMO’s image as a cost center and recast itself into a profit center.
Customer Involvement
You're not just managing a project, but working with a customer. This presentation walks you through customer involvement in the project management setting.
