Your Challenges

As organizations grow, managing portfolios, programmes, and projects can become increasingly challenging.

Do any of the following challenges resonate with you? The greater the quantity of portfolios, programmes & projects planned or in flight at any time...

• The more fragmented and complex, and the greater the quantity of the PPM tools & processes have had to become (and the more that has already been invested), and the more human resources (PMO etc.) required to operate them, to try to compensate and keep pace.
• The harder it is to track these in real-time, let alone enable effective & efficient scenario planning and allocating capital/human resources efficiently.
• The harder it is to manage these in real-time: the different delivery frameworks (e.g. Agile, SAFe, Waterfall), the prerequisites, the dependencies, the risks, issues & mitigations, the external parties involved (e.g. outsourcers, vendors, consultancies).  
• The more decisions of ever-increasing ramifications have to be based on partial, inconsistent and out-of-date information.
• The harder it is to link strategic imperatives to operational initiatives.
• The harder it is to get projects to deliver successfully: on time, on budget, to (original) scope, to quality.
  

We have always maintained that real-time information for the end-to-end holistic view and management of initiatives is crucial. However, summarising the above, the following can be inferred and have been observed:

• The larger the organization, the asymptotically greater the complexity to achieve this, especially across an evolutionary diverse spectrum of tools (and duplications of data) often in place (e.g. Excel, MS Project, Jira, Enterprise PPM, ERP).
• The greater the complexity, the more out-of-date, inconsistent and partial (and incorrectly summarized) that information also becomes.
• Ironically, this is inversely proportional to the importance of that information on which ongoing and future decisions must be made.

We have seen all sorts of products that can help here or there but they just add to the fragmentation and the problem. You can recruit more PMO and Admin resources to compensate but they just contribute to the complexity of the problem, often performing repeatable data-gathering tasks relatively inconsistently rather than actually applying their expertise.

So, how does Orbitil help you overcome those challenges?

As stated:

• Orbitil is the advanced predictive analytics solution for managing projects and portfolios within large, complex, technology-driven organizations.
• The platform integrates seamlessly with your existing PPM tools and processes, leveraging the significant capital and time already invested.

In a bit more detail, Orbitil provides the holistic view for global and complex organizations to balance people, performance…and even the planet. It:

• Provides real-time management reports, enabling improved decision making and improved project delivery, even across different delivery frameworks (e.g. Waterfall and Agile).
  
• Harvests live data from existing company systems without needing to replace them.
• Is a proven, seamlessly integrated, innovative management reporting tool which complements client’s systems and processes, using existing data buried within the organization.
• Helps enterprises make faster and better data-led decisions.
• Has powerful proprietary visual reports with predictive analytics for real-time management reporting, strategic scenario planning & decision making.
• Enables you to start getting next-level insights that you’ve never dreamed was possible before.

Couldn't we just use any BI tool instead?

Yes, you probably could...but answer this one, simple question: why haven’t you done it yet? 

Probably because it’s too expensive, would use valuable resource & capital required elsewhere, will take too long, will be a custom solution, will need internal dedicated support etc.. I.e. why have you bought any tool or technology rather than built them yourself?

Instead, Orbitil specifically concentrated on and overcame these challenges to give you the capabilities you require.

Not only that, they are already winners of multiple competitive innovation awards, and are continuing to increase and improve the features and capabilities to win more.

What Governance outcomes can we achieve with Orbitil?

It will give you more of a feel for what you governance challenges you want to achieve. It will be as if you were a small, manageable, disruptive organization again.

The simplest and most direct governance outcomes are answers to:

• How can we spend less time and effort to work out status?
• How can we ensure consistency and be efficient when information is spread across many systems?

This will then enable you to confidently answer even basic questions, which had become increasingly difficult at scale across portfolios of projects:

• What is our current (real-time) status, including unified across different delivery frameworks (e.g. Agile, SAFe, Waterfall)?
• What are the dependencies?
• Where are the risks?
• How much more budget is needed?

But it will really enable you to then start answering the real value-add power-questions that become more critical the larger an organization becomes, like:

• How much more budget is needed?
• How do we balance our available resources, demand and capacity for maximum effect?
• How can we try different scenarios before making decisions?
• What might we not have seen or realized otherwise?