Project Management System

Many industries are on project basis, such as construction and consulting companies. But overall, regardless industry line, in every company usually there are several projects running: renovation, process improvement, software implementation, etc.

Managing projects is not easy, since it involves many tasks, resources, and inter-dependent schedule between resources.

The Need

Projects must be managed to avoid over-budget and over-due. In order to do that, company requires good tracking on running projects. Information on budgeted resource versus actual resource, and planned schedule versus actual schedule should be available too.

For project-based-industry, it is also required to have records on working hour from its employee for project profitability calculation and productivity analysis.

To gather and consolidate this kind of information, an integrated information system is required. Requirements of the system are:

• Easy to use. Users must be able to do data entry and data presentation easily.
• Support collaboration. Since users can be involved in multiple projects, system must support collaboration across users and across projects.

The Solution

Microsoft Project is the most popular desktop project management software. The new Microsoft Project Server enables this software running on web environment, and have integrated database.

Plasmedia applies this technology and built a web-based solution which:

• Enables users to see the assignments, input working hours for each project.
• Enables project managers to see projects under their management.
• Enables HRD to calculate compensation related to projects.
• Enables management to see executive reports in user-friendly format.