CHAPTER 25

Enterprise Project Management

Elements and Deployment Issues

CHRIS VANDERSLUIS, HMS SOFTWARE

Enterprise project management (EPM) is often thought of as the Holy Grail of project management: an environment where all project management information, reporting, and analysis is part of an all-encompassing system where virtually every activity, every hour of time, and every dollar planned and spent can be instantly identified.

Both senior management and the project management office (PMO)—or, in its absence, a centralized project management group of professional project schedulers and project managers—is highly interested in getting access to all levels of data regarding project management. The most common scenario we find in organizations ...

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