Multi-project management with Quam® - keeping track and exploiting synergies

The multi-project management in Quam® supports the simultaneous and comprehensive planning, control and monitoring of several, usually parallel, projects. Here all active projects of the portfolio can be viewed (also independent of whether the projects have a common overriding objective) or a filterable subset (e.g. the projects within a program that have a common overriding objective).

Mehrere Projekte gleichzeitig planen und steuern

Multi-project management involves both operational project planning and strategic decisions regarding the entire portfolio. On the one hand, the project portfolio must be balanced at the strategic level in order to have "the right" projects in the portfolio; on the other hand, the individual projects must be managed at the operational level against the background of resource conflicts and time bottlenecks must be mastered.

The operational multi-project management as the activities for comprehensive management in scheduling and capacity planning, in particular the regulation of the access of several projects to common resources, comprehensive reporting and controlling, as well as uniform project evaluations according to essential criteria such as adherence to schedules, quality, costs and resource consumption are supported in Quam® by a consolidated overview.

The core element here is a multi-project plan, which displays in a Gantt chart the chronological course of all projects in a portfolio or a subset of it:

Mit einem Multiprojektplan nicht den Überblick verlieren

In order to obtain more detailed information on the scheduling of an individual project, it is possible to drill down into the individual project at this level:

Multiprojektmanagement funktioniert am besten mit einem Drill-Down jeden Einzelprojektes

A filter function can also be used to restrict the portfolio displayed to a subset of projects. Which filter options are available can be influenced by configuration:

In addition to the chronological classification, the multi-project plan is supplemented by a table of the main status indicators for the projects displayed:

Wesentliche Statusindikatoren angezeigter Projekte

Quam® helps with the above mentioned instruments,

to be able to better plan the use of scarce resources and to supply parallel projects with them without competition damaging the projects among each other,
to create an overview also in more extensive portfolios with a variety of projects,
to support the selection of the right projects,
set clear priorities that are understood and accepted because of transparent criteria, and
to carry out a strategic project controlling and to help that important projects receive the necessary attention - and if necessary unimportant projects are terminated in time.

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