In most companies, though their scope and duration can vary, projects tend to have similar goals: improve quality, reduce costs, increase productivity and revenue, reduce delivery time, and streamline operations. Often, the ultimate goal is to gain a competitive advantage. Controlling these projects is becoming increasingly difficult, especially if they are planned and run by project teams that are distributed across multiple locations. Organizations need to ensure that each team stays on track with its projects without losing sight of company objectives.
Company-wide project management using P6 EPPM enables project teams to plan and control their work while providing a continuous, centralized understanding of progress and performance. To begin the process of implementing P6 EPPM, you might want to broaden your project management goals to focus on the multi-user, role-based environment.
Specific objectives could include:
- Providing the project office with access to dynamic status information that they can use to make timely decisions.
- Improving efficiency of resource use by properly allocating skilled labor, communicating methodologies, and forecasting resource needs more accurately.
- Improving productivity across the project team as a result of continuous collaboration.
- Improving communication with all project participants through the use of integrated, organizational-wide products that put project information on individual's desktops.
- Increasing accountability by making consistent, summarized project status information available to top management.
- Increasing quality and client satisfaction through the use and reuse of best practices.
- Enabling maintenance of performance data on completed projects to confirm estimating metrics, generate new or revise existing templates, and collect job cost data.
- Integrating with other business systems to provide a total information system.
These goals are specific to project management. You can include additional goals that are particular to your company or industry. For example, one specific objective for a construction company might be to complete the inspection process in a more timely manner. Use best practices from your industry as a guide to setting your goals.