Sentient gives you the tools to gain visibility and control of your project pipeline. Full, portfolio-wide visibility of your delivery processes allows you to identify and manage conflicts and bottlenecks, as well has have confidence that your business is hitting delivery targets.
You create your own set of standardised “Gate” milestones to ensure all projects are adhering to the established delivery process; this helps you to monitor milestones for entire programmes of work.
Everyone in your business has visibility of the next gate milestones and can prioritise efforts to effectively manage timely delivery, meaning your whole business is focussing their efforts on the important items of work.
How will it help my business?
Leaving project deliverables to “the last minute” puts the entire business under unnecessary strain. Slipping timeframes, escalating costs, and resource pool stress are all symptoms of poor project pipeline visibility.
Managing delivery constraints early puts your whole business on track. Gain control of your delivery process and use visual tools to facilitate effective decision making.
- Build your delivery model - Define the process phases and the gate milestones as “checkpoints” for your delivery model.
- Capture information - Define, capture and track the project information important to your business
- Monitor your delivery processes - Have confidence that you know what’s really happening. Top down visibility means projects simply can’t be neglected without you knowing about it.
- View Pipeline of Work - Graphically manage your pipeline of work. Understand and manage delivery bottle necks then drill down into the project to get the information you need to make effective decisions.
- Compare visually - Use Gantt style charts to visually outline key project milestones across your entire business.
- Inform - With all the information at your fingertips, key stakeholders can access the information they need for the projects important to them, in a format that suits their needs.