Enterprise Project Management Portal
“The Roman bridges of antiquity were very inefficient structures.By modern standards, they used too much stone, and as a result, far too much labor to build.“
“Over the years we have learned to build bridges more efficiently, using fewer materials and less labor to perform the same task.“
The Sum of All Fears


This quote is mentioned in the Chaos report 1994 which is an excellent document for Project Management enthusiasts by Standish Group ® outlining the reasons for Software and Information Technology projects failure.
It is true that it took mankind 3000 years to master Bridge Building until we reached the stage where Bridge Failures are very few and far between. Modern Bridges spans are longer, the materials used are less cumbersome and they do not require as many people to build as before.
The same will eventually apply on Information Technology , hopefully it will take us less number of years to reach the maturity level required to have our projects achieving the intended business benefit on Time, on Schedule with the quality level expected.
Project Management success has many ingredients, some of them are covered in the Chaos report,     however unless you have the following ingredients, success will be a far reaching goal:

  1. Proper Project Management tools, and

  2. Qualified Project Managers who know how to use the above mentioned.


We, at SMCI call it the Value Triangle that is key to achieving excellence in what you do. Discipline, Technology and People.

The analogy is made to the Fire Triangle; Oxygen, Heat and Fuel. You take one element of the triangle and you have no fire.
   
SMCI PMExcellence

  1. PMExcellence was built to provide the “Discipline” part of the triangle, it also represents an Interface to the “Tools” part ensuring perfect alignment between both.

  2. PMExcellence contains the major world known standards & Best Practices (PMI, Prince2, PJM, etc.) in a unique Enterprise Portal allowing all Project Management community to refer to one place for the PM methodology adopted by their organization.

  3. SMCI has added more value to the Portal be devising a Product Delivery lifecycle that can be used during the actual execution of the intended product, be it developing a bespoke application, implementing Oracle Financial Suite or performing a Linux Server roll out.

  4. PMExcellence supports Oracle AIM3 and SDLC lifecycles and could be customized to include additional lifecycles.

  5. Organizations implementing Microsoft EPM will see a substantial value in PMExcellence, as it interfaces seamlessly to EPM both ways. PMExcellence sends and receives information to/from EPM including Project Names, Methodology used in managing these projects, product delivery lifecycle chosen, etc...

  6. More than 300 Boilerplate templates are available for project managers to use as individual project documents (Project Charter, Progress Report, etc...) Filled up templates become project documents and are stored along for easy access to Project Management community.

  7. For detailed information about the technical details of PMExcellence, you may download the Brochure in the desired languages as shown in this page.