Capabilities
Work
Manage all of your work, including programs and projects.
Deliverables
Manage the deliverables for your program and project. Tie these to documents and reviews.
Milestones
Manage your schedule's key milestones.
Dependencies
Manage dependencies. Enable better planning, scheduling and risk management through good dependency management.
Reviews
Manage all reviews. Include quality reviews, stage gate reviews, deliverable reviews and more.
Approvals
Track and manage all approvals.
Health
Manage the health of your programs and projects. Define what makes your programs and projects red, yellow, or green and track them.
Status Reporting
Report status of programs and projects with a combination of quantifiable information pulled from the system and subjective commentary from the program / project manager.
Risks
Manage risks. Capture probability, impact, risk exposure, approach, mitigation strategy, and contingency plans.
Issues
Manage program and project issues. Tie them to risks. Understand the impacts. Escalate as needed.
Action Items
When you need to get something done that is not already built into the schedule and you cannot afford to lose track of it, create an action item.
Decisions
Keep track of all decisions and understand how these decisions impact your planning, deliverables, resources, and schedule.
Documents
Store and manage documents. Associate documents to deliverables, communications events, reviews and more.
Resources
Manage resources, including labor and non-labor resources.
Costs
Manage the costs of your program or project. Understand the forecast cost, actual cost, and monthly variance for all resources.
Change Control
Formal change control must be a robust and thorough process. Manage it all, from the change request to impacted stakeholders to impact assessments to review boards to post-approval actions.
Communications Needs
Manage what and how you will communicate. You will need team meetings, status review meetings, steering committee meetings and more.
Communications Events
Manage all communications events. These are things like meetings, announcements, email blasts, mailings, etc.
Invitees
Manage those invited to communications events such as meetings or marketing campaigns.
Agenda
Build agendas for meetings and use them dynamically to manage meetings and meeting notes.