Melillo Consulting

Having a clear view into all aspects of your projects can help you maintain high levels of quality and deliver complex programs on time and on budget. Implementing Project Portfolio Management (PPM) systems and PPM process adoption and automation, are key for IT departments to meet the following critical needs:

• More effectively manage and monitor IT spending in the short term for quick results
• Review and improve existing work management practices
• Centralize and standardize demand management processes
• Enhance visibility into the resource pool
• Optimize and control the allocation of critical resources for project work
• More carefully balance inbound work (demand) with existing resources (time, people, money)
• Enhance the communication flow between itself and the business
• Increase the visibility into existing project status
• Gain better control over outsourced IT projects

We can help you implement a PPM solution to provide you with these workflow-based process governance and project and portfolio management capabilities. This includes robust, hierarchical portfolio planning and lifecycle management, multi-user project, time, resource, financial, program and demand management solutions deployed to support the needs of existing or new Project Management offices (PMOs), including: standardizing project initiation processes, improving project performance, reducing the proliferation of applications, reducing operating costs, and other benefits.

We specialize in providing outstanding leadership and services in support of HP's PPM Center (PPMC) software. Our experts can help you:

• Define the solution that fits your business needs and budget
• Develop the business case that quantifies value and return-on-investment

Our customers achieve:

• 200-400%+ increase in PMO productivity
• 20% average reduction in operating costs
• 40% reduction in the average cost to implement a PPM solution
• 20-40% performance improvement: projects delivered on time, within budget
• Up to 100% savings in annual application maintenance costs via portfolio rationalization

We offer numerous fast-start programs to help you achieve these benefits, including 8- and 12-week AgileStart™ initiatives that establish a solid foundation for the evolution of your PMO. We provide experienced PPM product configuration and support professionals that streamline the provision of PPM production administration, configuration, and support services. The end result is that our customers are able to reduce and control their product support costs through our service and capacity based support offerings.