Resolving Project Management Challenges in Higher Education
Location: KSA
Industry: Higher Education
Problems
The customer was facing project and portfolio management challenges such as lack of coordination and central source of truth regarding all projects. The management did not have any dashboards to view which departments have active projects, project duration, start/end date, and timeline tracking. As a result, the management of the university faced difficulty in prioritizing and allocating resources to the most important projects.
The problem further aggravated into some resources staying idle or being assigned to less important project
Solutions
Our solution consisted of two parts, the first was to implement and integrate Microsoft Project Server and on-boarding the organization-wide users within this new project-portfolio management tool.
The second part gleaning business intelligence from active projects. It consisted of developing a project summary dashboards for executive management. These dashboards reflected key information related to all projects. Business intelligence about all on-going projects formed a key component of business value for the client.
The solution consisted of:
- Implementation of Microsoft Project Server
- Data consolidation by developing a data warehouse
- Development of dashboards using Power BI, SSIS & SSRS to present project portfolio summary
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