PeopleSoft Program Management Business Processes

PeopleSoft Program Management supports the main business process of resource and project portfolio management. PeopleSoft Program Management is not a standalone application, as it leverages the functionality that is within PeopleSoft Resource Management, Project Costing, Expenses, and Project Portfolio Management to provide a fully integrated program management solution. PeopleSoft Program Management includes these business processes:

Create and submit one or more versions of a project request.
- Route project requests to the parties who are responsible for operationally and financially authorizing the initiation of a project or program.
- Create bottoms-up business case justifications for a project or program.
Create project.
- Define the project scope and deliverables.
- Define the tasks and work breakdown structure, schedule, dependencies, constraints, and milestones.
- Establish a budget, if it's not predetermined.
- Obtain the approval to begin project.
- Define the resources.
Assign resources to project.
- Define the resource requirements.
- Assign generic resources during planning phases.
- Search for top candidates.
- Create assignments from search results.
- Directly assign specific resources.
Manage project.
- Review and analyze project deliverables, deliverable quality, schedule, milestones, activities, resources, and costs.
- Manage status reporting.
- Track and manage issues.
- Track and manage changes.
- Track and manage risks.
- Review and forecast remaining work.
Manage Programs
- Organize projects into programs.
- Create program budgets.
- Track progress of all projects under a program and monitor program health.
Forecast Services.
- Obtain updated work effort forecasts at regular intervals.
- Review and approve forecasts at the project manager, supervisor, or administrator level.
- Anticipate future resource utilization and examine past utilization.
- Apply standard rates to forecasts to calculate cost and revenue estimates.