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TeamCluster ProjectReal time project management solutions

Harry HvostovApril 27, 2002

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The Competitive Landscape

Projects are increasingly complex, requiring cross-functional and organizational involvement for success.Companies must focus on core competencies to be successful in today’s market.Vendors must provide complete solutions for their customers.Successful companies share risk and gain economies of effort through collaboration with partners, vendors, and customers.Successful companies deploy key skills quickly and leverage critical mass regardless of geographic location.Successful companies have a network infrastructure mature enough to support efficient, effective, and secure team collaboration.

The Web is the global team workplace.

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The Challenges

Project management burden is stealing “cycles” from valuable engineering resources.Project complexity and speed is now beyond the single “gatekeeper’s” scope.Clarity about project objectives must be diffused globally.Clarity about roles and responsibilities must be diffused globally.Duplication of effort must be avoided at all costs.

Why are there 10 spreadsheets for the same data?Need consistency in resolving issues and managing risks – misdirected action plans, too little, too late.Need efficient and timely access to project critical information, regardless of location.Need global accountability across the project team.We must proactively manage risk.

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TeamCluster Project Value Proposition

TeamCluster Project places focus where it belongs: The team. Plan and execution. Risk management. Information management.

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TeamCluster Energized

Plan &Execute

Project

RealTimeInfo

RisksTeam

Add team mateAssign expert

Email eventnotification

Create subjectfolders

Share informationteam-wide

Assess

Manage

Plan product feature setSet goalsTrack progressHold action orientedmeetings

Project snapshotsPhase summaries

Deliverables status

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Teamwork – All for One and One for All

Project Team

Engineering

QualityAssurance

Marketing

Operations

Partners

Customers

Sales

CustomerSupport

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Cross-functional Team Management

Each critical skill set for the project must be represented as part of the team.Team member roles and responsibilities must be globally defined.Team member roles must be clearly endorsed. Part time teams never succeed.

Priorities must be clearly established and followed.

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Plan and Execution

Project

Phases

Milestones

Deliv erables

Issues

Actions

Resolv e

Remov e

Complete

Meet

Accomplish

Stage

Plan

Do

Assess

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Action Oriented Project Execution

Ease project management burden: Clear links between the plan and results.

Plan - top down: Product feature set for each Phase – time to

market. Phase completion as a set of milestones. Deliverables with clear ownership.

Execute - bottom up: Issues are gates to deliverable completion. Accountability for each issue and action plans to

resolve them. Targeted actions to remove gates and unblock the

team progress.

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Risk management

Risks

Controls

AssessControl

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Risk management

Assessment: Identify risks before they become costly

problems. Prioritize – probability x impact = exposure. Analyze to identify risk type and anticipated

impact timeframe.

Action oriented control: Develop risk management action plan:

Mitigate, transfer, watch, execute contingency plan. Assign clear ownership for risk resolution. Reassess risk exposure define next corrective

action.

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Information Management

TeamMember

TeamMember

TeamMember

TeamMember

TeamMember

Subject MatterInformationRepository

Publish

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Real Time Information Sharing – Key to Success

Publish: Team members create subject area folders. Upload documents into common repository.

Subscribe: Team members receive automatic email

notification of new relevant documents. Global Web access from desktop, laptop,

PDA. View, download and use information to

accomplish project objectives.

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TeamCluster Components

Web browser access – no client installation!Industry standard server computing platform: Java runtime. Web server. Java servlet engine. Relational database management system.

Seamless standards based server installation.Complete OS platform deployment independence: Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 2000.

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Flexible Deployment Model

Corporate intranet or extranet. Server configuration to client requirements. Leverage corporate network infrastructure, remote

access, and security. Keep project critical information assets under direct

physical control.

Managed hosting (rackspace.com) Best of breed enterprise application hosting:

Dedicated servers. 99.999% availability. 24x7x365 guarantee – Fanatical support. 55% guaranteed extra bandwidth capacity. Global presence through US and UK data centers.

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TeamCluster Project Summary

Boost distributed team productivity to meet ROI targets.Ease project management burden.Execute to plan with predictable, consistent results.Integrate management of project critical information.Enable universal Web based info access on demand – from anywhere, anytime.

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Questions? Comments?

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