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UMT Institute – The Project & Portfolio Management Learning Center - Learn from UMT, the Project & Portfolio Management Experts

UMT Institute is the training division of UMT Consulting Group, providing learning solutions and training courses on portfolio management and project office software and theory. Our training offering targets audiences from all levels and functional groups across the organization.

UMT’s expertise comes from nearly 20 years of successful portfolio management implementations that lead to the groundbreaking thinking embedded within the UMT Portfolio Manager™, the leading portfolio management software solution acquired by Microsoft in 2006. UMT Institute’s unique value proposition includes the packaging of these ‘real life’ experiences into practical training courses providing students with the skills and knowledge necessary to maximize the business value of their portfolio management and project office work.

Successful Project Management is complex balancing act of management and control. The Program Management Office (PMO) is the centre of competence that provides companies with:

• People - Providing specialized staff to establish controls, and implement process and standards.
• Processes- Methods for establishing consistent and reliable delivery across a number of projects and programs. These can include, Governance, Delivery Lifecycles, Control techniques (risk, issue, change, gateway management, cost controls), program and portfolio management related processes, and reporting.
• Tools - Implementation of PM Systems to support and where possible automate the above processes.

Ultimately the PMO gives companies the confidence that projects and program are being delivered with the required controls over key milestones, deliverables, costs, and within supplier capability.

Understanding and proactively developing your corporate project management skills is a vital requisite for successful project delivery. Through capability planning companies assess their competencies and define strategies and targets for improvement. This will include processes to assess and grow individual capabilities. It also means actively matching the right individual project skills to project complexity as an integral part of resource management. Without capability planning, programs have an inherently higher risk to overrun costs and time: Program delays, loss of quality or scope and spiraling costs will erode the benefits to the organization and invalidate the program’s business case.

In today’s fast paced competitive environment, it is vital that companies can deliver their change projects reliably. Process Solutions develop and implement a set of standard processes that give companies the ability to predict success. Change initiatives that follow theses best in class processes have the highest likelihood of being delivered in time, on costs and to quality. Without reliable processes, companies will remain dependent on heroes: although these project managers can deliver even some of the most complex projects, outcomes are always unpredictable and sheer luck can never be a founding block for long term sustainable delivery. Without processes, companies run the risk of continuous reinventions: successes, work on previous projects is often wasted; newcomers are left without guidelines on how to proceed.

People and processes and tools are the key ingredients for successful project and program delivery. The right Project Management tools will essentially help to:

• Underpin Complex Program Delivery - Providing a proven `out of the box` reporting & control solution to support the management and control of complex programs by providing visibility, insight and control.
• Enable Disciplined Delivery Capability - Providing a flexible Project Portfolio Management (PPM) toolkit that underpins PPM disciplines, practice, and required compliance.
• Improve Business Results - For organizations that require a systemized PPM toolkit to deliver `repeatable` project success and improve their `bottom line` performance and control into their customers.

Business Productivity Optimization focusses on the automation of (office) business processes and makes you benefit from more efficient and effective processes.

Campana & Schott is a full service provider in this area, offering professional process consulting, functional specification and the realization/ implementation of the IT solution at the customer. By the use of Microsoft Technology we ensure that our customers achieve a highly integrated IT platform with Microsoft Office tools as the main user front-end.

Exemplary for a business productivity optimization project at an IT Service Desk, it is described below how Campana & Schott introduced processes based on the ITIL framework and set up the necessary IT application.

CS Connect is the high-performance standard solution for the online integration of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and SAP R/3.

CS Connect is the high-performance standard solution for the online integration of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 and SAP R/3.

CS Project Portal helps organizations centrally manage all projects in progress in their enterprises. The Web-based solution provides a user-friendly, integrated, and flexible infrastructure based on Microsoft Office Project 2007.

CS Project Portal helps organizations centrally manage all projects in progress in their enterprises. The Web-based solution provides a user-friendly, integrated, and flexible infrastructure based on Microsoft Office Project 2003 and up.

Campana & Schott helps companies adapt Microsoft Office Project 2003 to their specific processes and interests.          

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Campana & Schott helps companies adapt Microsoft Office Project 2007 to their specific processes and interests.

In an increasingly competitive business environment, success depends upon your ability to manage every project well, keeping them on time, within scope and budget, and aligned with business goals. The end-to-end Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution is ideal for project portfolio selection, budget and resource allocation, strong coordination and standardization between projects and project managers, centralized resource management, and higher-level reporting about projects and resources. Yet when deploying an enterprise solution, implementation is a critical yet complex project on its own, and driving business value requires partnering with industry specialists in EPM adoption.

UMT Consulting Group provides comprehensive EPM expertise gained from nearly 20 years of enterprise project and portfolio management experience working with Global 1000 clients. UMT developed the Portfolio Manager™ software suite, acquired in 2006 by Microsoft to round out the Microsoft EPM solution, and UMT continues to provide you with exclusive proficiency implementing all aspects of the Microsoft EPM platform.

Proha Plc is the Nordic region's leading consultant in the implementation, development and adaptation of Microsoft Enterprise Project Management, EPM solutions:

- Microsoft Office Project Server 2003, 2007

- Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007

- Safran Portals for SharePoint 2007

DecisionCharts for Microsoft Office Project adds over 100 new multi-project charts to Microsoft Office Project 2007 (it does not include tabular reports).  Embedded as a new toolbar button within Office Project, managers can quickly understand their project portfolio better with new multi-project charts that help them plan resource allocation, keep stakeholders informed, track and compare project status, and measure project performance with earned value.

DecisionEdge provides the charts and tabular reports managers need to understand and share key project information. By clicking a toolbar button in Microsoft Office Project, managers can quickly access over 100 new charts and reports, including project health scorecards, stakeholder dashboards, resource look-ahead reports, S-curves, stoplight reports, and more. They can also avoid manual copying-and-pasting with custom charts based on specific visibility requirements.

Is your company managing its strategic initiatives on a SPREADSHEET?

A Project Portfolio Management (PPM) system is an essential tool for collecting project requests, building business cases, managing approvals and prioritizing your company’s strategic initiatives. But PPM systems can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and take months to implement. Project Solutions Group has teamed with Microsoft to develop a Software as a Service (SaaS) approach to PPM that drastically lowers the cost of ownership, giving management the information they need to effectively align project investments with corporate strategy.

“Microsoft has raised the bar in the Project Portfolio Management marketplace” – Forrester Research, August 2006