PM Forsyth PPMPlus

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Forsyth PM is a comprehensive solution that allows you to develop project management in the organization systematically. The Forsyth PM includes a certain project management methodology supported by the IT solution, and a set of organizational measures is provided for its implementation. The presence of such a set of elements in the Forsyth PM makes it possible to build an operating management system that is not rejected by the organization, taking into account the maturity of project activities and its specifics.

PM "Forsyth" importsMicrosoft Project Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Oracle Primavera and other foreign analogues.

The system is chosen by large and medium-sized commercial and public sector organizations.

Versions

For the convenience of users, 3 Forsyth IT solutions have been developed for various tasks.

• 1. PM Forsayt.Standard is a solution adapted to the needs of companies that are just beginning to implement project management. Allows you to quickly get used to the system and start working. A possible placement option cloud in guarantees access to data to at any time from anywhere in the world.
• 2. PM Forsayt.Business is an advanced solution for commercial companies, designed to manage projects of any level of complexity. Provides flexible configuration and transparency for maintaining all types of projects at all levels of the organization.
• 3. PM Forsayt.Public Administration is an independent import solution that takes into account the peculiarities of project management in public sector organizations.

(December 2022 data)

2023: Inclusion of Russian products for the digital workplace in the map

In June 2023, the product was included in the TAdviser card "Employee Digital Workplace 2023."

2022: Functionality for all key roles of project activities

The Forsyth PM system has developed scenarios and functionality for all key roles of the project activities.

Forsyth Senior Manager of PM provides opportunities for management and control without unnecessary immersion in the details: control panels, forecasting and risk management services, control by key milestones or stages of projects.

For the PM Project Manager, Forsyth will be an assistant and the main working tool for developing a consolidated or detailed project plan, managing deadlines, metrics, resources and budget, effective communications with the team and management.

Forsyth PM project team members will be able to see their tasks and assignments, take part in the project meeting and see its solutions, draw up a report for management and escalate the problem in time.

Forsyth PM Project Office will provide planning and monitoring of project indicators by the tree of goals of the organization, regular monitoring for selected projects, portfolios or the organization as a whole, change management, a wide range of generic and customizable reports, accumulation and use of the knowledge system, lessons learned, typical situations described, management of competencies of employees based on information on experience and qualifications, which accumulates in the Forsyth PM as projects are implemented.

(December 2022 data)

2021: Ability to track links of strategic objectives with projects being implemented

The PM Forsyth team has updated the goals and indicators panel. Now senior managers can track the links of strategic goals with projects being implemented at any time.

In the version of PM Forsyth released in March 2021, the Portfolios module was updated. Now the top managers of the company have the opportunity to associate projects with specific goals and track the implementation of the latter.

The tracking mechanism is quite simple. The portfolio manager introduces strategic goals into the system and decomposes them into smaller ones. When the project is initiated, it is assigned to a specific goal, and when it is completed, the fixed goal is accordingly achieved. Within the framework of the vertical goals, progress also affects the implementation of the strategic goals of the Portfolio.

"The updated goals and metrics panel makes it much easier for portfolio managers to work. We have provided an opportunity to view from the bottom up which strategic goals are already closed by projects, and which others need to be worked out. Accordingly, it has become more convenient to track the dynamics of achieving such goals, "said Sergei Rozhkov, head of the IT block of the Project Practice Group of Companies

The panel of goals and indicators operates within the "Portfolios" module in the implementation of "Forsyth PM" for commercial companies. The same principle is implemented when managing the goals of national projects within the framework of an industry solution for the public sector. Panel for "PM Forsyth." The standard is in the works.

2020: Transition to.NET Core 3.1

As it became known on January 28, 2020, the Forsyth PM system is now running on the latest version of the.NET Core 3.1 platform.

At the same time, the system speed has been significantly increased, the Discussion module has been redesigned, which now allows you to conduct a full-fledged discussion in a variety of system cards from project to order.

These changes are available in the January 2020 monthly system update.

2018: Updated set of functionality for executive bodies of state power

In October 2018, Proyektnaya PRAKTIKA Group of Companies officially announced the release of an updated release of the Forsyth PM project management system (version for the public sector). This release of the Forsyth PM includes a set of functionality updated taking into account the May decrees for the executive bodies of state power at the regional and municipal levels. The updated system allows organizing the work of regional design offices and project teams in accordance with the methodological recommendations of the Federal Design Office for organizing project activities.

Recently, the Forsyth PM industry project management solution (public sector version) has undergone a number of functional improvements and has become more convenient for solving management tasks that project teams face in connection with the implementation of Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 204 of May 7, 2018. During the refinements, a lot of attention is paid to the convenience of the system modules, which in the presented version allow:

• Align the project activities of the region with the goals and objectives of the May decrees
• Establish and maintain the regional component of national projects
• Manage regional projects throughout their lifecycle
• Prepare project reports in accordance with the guidelines adopted at the federal level

The release takes into account the experience of testing at the federal level the prototype of AISPD (automated information system of project activities), as well as the best practices of leading regions with a high assessment of the maturity of the organization of project activities, and customers of the Design Practice Group, which were included in the TOP-20 of the Rating of investment attractiveness of the Russian Federation.

2017: Target and Performance Management Module Upgrade

On February 21, 2017, Project Practice announced the modernization of the Forsyth PM target and performance management module. The "Substitution" module allows you to perform all actions in the Forsyth GR that are available to the replaced user in its normal operating mode.

"Situations where an employee cannot perform the necessary actions in the Information System in time for objective reasons are not as rare as it may seem. And in order not to slow down production processes due to the lack of employees, a module appeared in the Forsyth PM - Substitution. It is enough for the user to indicate the deputy employee who will receive the right to perform actions in the Forsyth PM on his behalf. All actions performed by the alternate on behalf of the user being replaced will be logged. Therefore, if necessary, you can always track which user performed this or that action. " Sergei Rozhkov, Head of the System and Business Analysis Team

2016

Update PM Forsyth

On November 22, 2016, Project Practice announced the modernization of the Forsyth PM target and performance management module. This will help build a hierarchy of goals and indicators, link them with projects and portfolios, plan goals and record their condition.

The user is able to set planned, forecast and actual values ​ ​ by target indicators with the required frequency - by months, quarters, half-year and years. The module can adjust the degree of influence of each indicator on the achievement of the goal, establish the relationship of goals, link goals to projects and programs. Through the revised report, it became easier to monitor progress and assess the achievement of indicators, track the coverage of projects with goals and vice versa.

Functional Structure, (2015)

The improvements were carried out at the request of users - representatives of the public sector, for whom the monogenized module will become a convenient tool for managing the goals and objectives of the region in terms of project activities.

Other improvements include improvements in:

• Results and Control Point Acceptance Module
• analytics and reporting block,
• Budget management module.

Version of Forsyth PM System (PPMPlus) dated July 2016

Advanced functionality for working with change requests - now the user has an expanded opportunity to configure a change request, more flexible and faster making changes to approved project parameters after it starts. Now you can configure any workflow for the approval procedure, just a couple of mouse clicks allows you to make group requests for changes, according to routine changes, functional administrators have the opportunity to make adjustments in coordination with the responsible person who is not accessing the System.

Another big refinement of this release is custom and editable registry views. Registers are one of the key types of elements of our solution used when working with projects, programs, project portfolios, assignments, change requests and many other entities of the System. The convenience of working with registers largely determines the convenience of working with the System as a whole. Now registry views have become as flexibly configurable as lists in Excel, it has become possible to make mass changes to several registry objects at once.

The export and import functionality was developed. The improved import function will allow you to easily and flexibly transfer tasks and milestones from Project Server, Spider, or local files to the Forsyth PM. And thanks to the export, the user can upload the schedule directly from the project card to the pre-configured MS Project template at the click of a button. At the same time, the unloaded plan will fully correspond to the plan in the System.

The Forsyth PM solution provides a large set of functionalities that are available for use by setting without programming, which significantly reduces the implementation time and at the same time meets most of the Customer's requirements. If earlier, in most cases, the implementation dates of six months - a year were considered normal, now - in 1-2 months, the Customer can already deploy a working prototype that covers most of the requirements. Due to the implementation of the development vector for a customizable solution, our System is becoming more competitive and attractive for the Customer. Moreover, this approach simplifies the possibility of developing the solution together with increasing the Customer's maturity level and reduces the degree of the Customer's dependence on the developer, which is also important.

The Forsyth cloud PM is an independent solution that forms the basis for a full set of functionality of the standard version. The cloud solution is safe to use and adaptable to the Customer's specific management processes. The solution is deployed on the basis of the Customer in the "private cloud" mode. At the same time, a lease of a cloud system according to the SaaS scheme is available, including technical support in 24x7 mode.

The security of the solution provides a logic in which all segments of the cloud are isolated thanks to many independent databases - even the data of two branches of the same organization may not overlap in the cloud system. Several proven hosting providers are offered to choose a client - from small and fairly inexpensive, to large, distributed data centers. The client can choose the appropriate hosting and meet his priority criteria - price, quality, safety, fault tolerance.

Solving management problems in the public sector

During the refinements, not only management modules were placed at the head of usability, which in the new version more fully reflect the industry specifics of the public sector. Attention was paid to monitoring tools important for state organizations.

In addition to procedures for managing deadlines, budgets, business logic of projects, changes, etc. in the industry solution, there are monitoring tools such as: reports, personalized dashboards, operational analytics on key registers. Taking into account the contractual specifics of government agencies, the functionality of the Contract Management module has been expanded and supplemented. The module supports the procedure for concluding contracts in accordance with federal laws and takes into account the features of project work in the form of public-private partnership. After the updates, the Financial Management module, important for any industry, has become tailored for the convenience of maintaining project budgets for the state Customer with aggregation into higher levels of management - portfolios and state programs. Also, a completely new module appeared in the system - "Management of competencies and motivation." Its relevance and timeliness is justified by the current recommendations for project management in executive authorities approved by the Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, which the state organizations. organizations must adhere to in their project work.

In the process of working on the convenience of using the system in government agencies, all modules were brought into line with the domestic regulatory framework. As a result, the decision complies with GOSTs, Methodological Recommendations for the Implementation of Project Management in the Executive Authorities of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. An important milestone in the development of the decision over the past 6 months was the inclusion of Forsyth PM in the register of domestic software. The sectoral solution is recognized as import-substituting and can be officially applied in the state bodies of the Russian Federation.

2015: PM Forsyth. Description

As of November 2015, PM Forsight is a single software, methodological and organizational complex that allows you to build and debug the processes of project, software and portfolio management in the organization, prepare and train personnel, and then automate these processes and the work of people as quickly as possible.

PM Forsight combines:

• proven project management methodologies (including PMBOK®, PRINCE2®, IPMA)
• practical experience of specialists of Design Practice Group of Companies
• modern toolkit

FORSIGHT PM is based on project management methods, such as:

• Multi-level system of interrelated plans (strategic, tactical and detailed project plans)
• Project Management by Checkpoint ("Milestones")
• Gate Review Controls Project Lifecycle Milestones
• Flexible change control chains for various project parameters
• and more

Forsight PM covers all levels of management, from executors of specific tasks and managers of allocated projects to managers of portfolios and programs and top management of companies. At the same time, everyone receives those analytical slices, the detail of information and the tools that he needs to solve management problems.

Forsight PM for companies where:

• It is not the processes that are important, but the achievement of project goals and the achievement of planned results.
• there is an understanding - it is useless to automate chaos, and any project management system is based on a well-oiled methodology, correct and understandable regulations and trained, competent personnel.
• project managers should receive a tool for daily work with projects, and the company's top management should receive visual and effective monitoring tools.
• they want all projects in the company to be implemented according to the same rules, with a sufficient level of formalization, while the system must be flexibly configured for changes in regulations and processes.
• you need a project management tool that does not consume all of your time and does not force you to form "reports for the sake of reports."
• the integration of project management processes with related and "near-project" activities is important.