Team 13Darius Zakeri – Quality/Consistency Control Officer

Esther Quintero – Secretary/Presentation Leader

Justus Karban – Project Leader

Matt McCloy – Web Master

Tariq Jabbar – Editor /Project Advisor

Project Goals

• Research project management solutions available in the market.

• Find the appropriate solution for practical cases

• Show relationship between cases needs and tools

Dimensions MatrixDimensions Descriptions

ResourceManagement

Resource Management•Human•Equipment•Time•Cost Estimation

SystemRequirements

•Platform: The operating system that the system can perform on (example Windows, Mac, Linux). Platform type single and multiple.•Hardware: physical requirements such as hard drive space and amount of memory.•Installation/access: How and where the software is installed. Types of installations stand alone, server based, web portal.

Support

•Email•24/7 or restricted schedules•Online or web help•Built-in Help i.e. MS Office•On location assistance•Training on-site/off-site

Collaboration

•Group Size: The number of users that software supports•Email list•Revision Control•Charting•Document versioning•Document retention•Document sharing•Document repository•Evaluation and survey

Use case # 1 description• User Jared Dryer

• Equity Financial Exchange

• Company Size: 400

• Regulatory Division

• Trading activity on the exchange to comply with Equity Exchange rules and regulations.

• Collaborating with his development team

• Confidential, access control is a priority, they prefer to have a client server type application. 

• Interoperable with MS office.

Requirements descriptionMust have• Project Tracking• Resource Management• Access Control• Server/Client• File/Document Sharing

Nice to have• Evaluation Tools• Document Repository

Solution Based on the previous analysis the solution must match the

following criteria according to the user needs:

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Proprietary Web Based

Server/Client capable

ASP module (web access)

Issue Tracking

Issue and request tracking

Collaboration Tools

Projects with multi-nested tasks

Portfolio Management

Resource Management

Provides users with complete task schedule

Detailed statistics and reports

Document Management

Team members can share files

Email notifications in real timeMessage boards

Use case # 2 description• Paul Roberts

• Project Manager

• Swift IT Consulting 

• Company Size: 500 employees

• Locate and implement software to improve the ability for teams in our two locations to collaborate and manage projects.

• Paul manages 6 projects managers working in two different locations.

• The software has to be able to track, import, and change resources such as humans, equipment, and time.

• Software has to interact with their current environment

Requirements description

 Must to have• Synchronous connection• Supports  groups large and small• 24/7 support • Run on or interact with Windows• Server or web based • Document Sharing  Nice To Have  • Onsite support • Training • Multilingual interface • Document Repository • Budgeting capabilities • Voice and data communications

Solution @Task Based on the previous analysis the solution must match the

following criteria according to the user needs:

Proprietary Web based solution

It can be integrated with many other types of software including: Outlook, Sales Force, SAP, People Soft, and Oracle financial.

Issue Tracking

Trends and projections to avoid possible issues

Collaboration Tools

Scheduling resources on prioritized projects

Resources pools to better utilization of capabilities.

Multilingual

Portfolio Management

Planning schedules projects by priority determining earliest start date for each project within the portfolio.

Resource Management

Current vs planned costs to indicate performance.

Evaluation of estimated value, costs, risks, and alignment to strategic and financial goals.

Document Management

Document Storage

Automatic Notifications

@Task

Questions?

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