 Deploy Tenrox Project Workforce Software all at once, or in stages.
Are you reluctant to make a massive infrastructure change all at once? Are you worried about end users accepting the change? Worried about disrupting day to day operations? Many companies are. That's why Tenrox Project Workforce Management Software, a complete solution, is modular in design. You can opt to implement it all at once, or in phases to minimize these risks.
Step One: eliminate spreadsheets tied to Time and Expense Tracking
With this first step, you will be able to track true project costs in real time, based on your time and expense reporting policies in a single system. With Tenrox Time and Expense Tracking Module you can manage and account for “differentiated time” by project, by unit, any breakdown you choose, in accordance with your corporate structure. Get a real-time view of all the people and resource groups working on different projects at different times worldwide. Make decisions now, not after the fact.
Step Two: Cost and Revenue Accounting
Eliminate more spreadsheets by automating cost and billing calculations and accounting. Whether you’re concerned with billable projects, charge-backs, or both, Tenrox Cost and Revenue Accounting accounts for every detail and allocates it automatically across the various elements of your organization and work breakdown structures. Our solution includes highly configurable approvals, routing, notifications and is fully integrated Tenrox Time and Expense Tracking. The invoicing module automatically generates invoices for your time, expense and charges according to your pre-set categories: recurring, hourly, fixed, and milestone. Get up-to-the-minute cost/revenue updates in both “live” dashboard and report formats.
Step Three: Workforce Planning
Once you have made your first moves to eliminate spreadsheets, patchwork solutions, and internally developed systems, you’re ready for additional automation. Perhaps you’ll unleash the power of global collaboration with our Workforce Planning module. Properly manage the talent within you organization, track progress and growth in your talent pool, forecast resource allocation into the future to increase utilization and minimize bench time.
Step Four: Project Planning
Your workforce utilization is now optimized, skills and calendars are defined and being managed within the solution. Now is the time to explore some of the more advanced project scheduling features, controls and techniques to better define your Work Breakdown Structure. Build Gantt charts, capture baselines, define task dependencies and linkages to better control and monitor project delivery and Earned Value. Leverage the project planning module to help project managers introduce methodologies and best practices to streamline project delivery and increase the chances of success.
Step Five: Project Process Management
Following a successful implementation of core processes around project and resource planning, time and expense tracking/project management methodologies and best practices need to be standardized and automated to ensure the most efficient project delivery model is followed enterprise wide.
Key project processes to manage include, the initiation of new projects, project scope change requests, as well as, the identification, review and resolution of issues and risks. At this point of the deployment roadmap, your organization has the experience and maturity level that is required to complete the deployment and achieve total Project Workforce Management.
Step Six: Analytics
By adding Analytics, you will have role-based self-service dashboards that display operational and compliance information such as: budgeted versus actual time and expense; project and resource group costs; revenue/chargeback, or margins; project health indicators; project financials; and more.
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