Otoni’s Programme Intelligence software offers a number of modules to simplify running your programmes. One of these modules is Schedules, which makes scheduling easier in several ways.
Enabling Work: Otoni PI identifies all enabling work before a project starts, ensuring that this information remains with the project throughout its entire lifecycle. This allows for a greater level of detail to be included, which is not typically found in standard project schedules.
SHEA (Safety, Health, and Environmental Awareness): Programme Intelligence identifies any issues related to the project, ensuring they are appropriately addressed. It allows for analysis across multiple projects to identify trends and common issues, and feeds valuable lessons learned into future projects.
DCMA Checks: Standard schedule checks can be configured and automatically run when the data is loaded. Historical trends are available via the Data Warehouse, encouraging planning best practices and improving schedule quality.
The software provides a visual Tetris representation showing Milestone Movement versus Baseline and Previous Months. This highlights milestones due by month and allows comparisons to the approved baseline and any previous periods, indicating advancement or slippage against each measure.
Milestone Approvals: Schedule governance ensures that key milestones that have shifted more than five days are tagged for approval. Some role-based approvers can accept or reject the changes, while key approvers may override decisions if necessary. Approved changes are then applied to the plans by the planners.
Another valuable feature in scheduling is the management of Deliverables. Tasks can be broken down into manageable chunks, with activities and milestones linked to deliverables that are tracked to completion. Once completed, the activities can be reviewed and marked as actuals as required. These deliverables can also be linked to external systems, such as Asite, Documentum, or SharePoint, for status updates.
Finally, scheduling can be utilised at both the project level, allowing for individual tasks to be viewed with interdependencies identified, thus recognising the critical path and current progress against the baseline. It is user-friendly for non-planners.
At the programme level, it provides a top-down view of the entire programme, showing project concurrence and identifying potential bottlenecks. It offers an easy-to-understand visual representation of the overall programme’s progress.
Otoni Programme Intelligence includes other key features such as risk tools,but if scheduling is a headache for you, please contact us to learn more.
