Program Management
Sword solutions improve the visibility and quality of information needed by Project Managers and key executives to manage construction programs and projects. Our solution provides instant online visibility of every issue, trend, and communication that affects cost and schedules - from an individual work item through the project and program level. The system gives every member of your team the ability to forecast, react, or rethink project strategies based on up-to-the minute data.
Our solutions integrate information from multiple sources, including scheduling, estimating and accounting tools into a central repository for complete program-centric information management. Cost management calculations and variances include:
- Expenditure to date
- Forecasted expenditure (outturn)
- Cash flow projections against budgets which can be from multiple funding sources
- Financial risk metrics
A key start point for program information management is to standardize the processes across the projects for storing and retrieving documents, including transmittal management, review and approval processes. This supports the rolling up of document centric performance data into the high-level dashboard view. An additional benefit is that the staff can move to a new project without needing to be retrained on where to locate the information and the processes that they need to follow.
Microsoft Office can be used to prepare weekly reports covering topics, project issues, risks and incident reports. These items can be assigned a traffic light indicator and are then aggregated into the program dashboard. Areas of specific interest can then be drilled down for additional details. Prior weekly reports on that topic are also available.
Our program management tool supports strategic decision-making through issue tracking, schedule tracking, trend analysis, over/under budget analysis, cash-flow and exception reporting.
See our Program Management product.