PROJECT GROUPING

In the real world some projects make money others lose it. The Project graph described previously identifies the profit or loss status of each individual project.

But wouldn’t it be useful if you could group projects together by industry sector, maybe all Education clients, or Healthcare or Hotels or Urban Regeneration? Then you could identify which sectors tend to turn a profit, and those that are more likely to lead to a loss.

With the Atelier Ten INFORM system you can do just that. A special Project facility allows you create a Project Group, giving it a meaningful name, then you select the projects you want to be included in that group. There’s no practical limit to the number of groups you can create, and the same project can belong to any number of groups.

Then, instead of running the Project Monitoring graph for a single project, you run it for a Project Group. This is what you get.

It takes minutes to set up a project group and a few seconds more to run the graph. Experimentation is the name of the game. Spotting trends can’t be made any simpler!

You may want to create project groups for each of your project managers. That could help determine who is managing their resources effectively, including shared company-wide resources like the CAD department.

We’ve done it for our own business, so we know it works. Rather than cause bad feeling, having easy access to this sort of data has made us all more cost conscious leading to across-the-board improvements.