Project Artefacts

An important part of any complete project management methodology is identification of potential business-related or project-related artefacts like risks and issues. Project delivery can be significantly affected if organisations do not adopt best-practice risk and issue management processes - to stay informed and in control.

EPM Partners can help organisations accomplish the following:

Define a standard way to assess risk for new initiatives

Risk ratings, along with strategic value and financial value, are the main variables used to assess projects during portfolio selection analysis. Organisations need a consistent approach to deriving risk scores and weights for proposed initiatives.

Standardise project risk collection and management

To successfully manage project risk, project managers require centralised and standardised methods for capturing risk information and document mitigation strategies throughout the project life cycle. A centralised log of all project risks makes risk easier to manage and provides the necessary transparency to leadership and project teams.

Establish proper issue resolution and escalation.

No matter how well planned and managed a project is, unexpected events can arise. As with risk management, a centralised and accessible location for capturing all project issues provides the project manager and the team with the necessary tools to effectively manage issues and to reach resolutions.

Through Microsoft SharePoint, EPM Partners can help orgnisations capture and manage any type of project artefact.  These include:

• risks
• issues
• change requests
• communication plans
• documentation
• other project-related items

Project artefacts are then conveniently accessed via the project's own SharePoint project site.

EPM Partners provide a tool that supports risk identification from the earliest stage of portfolio analysis through to the final stages of project execution and benefit realisation.