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TeamCluster Project
Real time project management solutions
Harry Hvostov
April 27, 2002
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The Competitive Landscape
Projects are increasingly complex, requiring cross-functional and
organizational involvement for success.
Companies must focus on core competencies to be successful in
today’s market.
Vendors must provide complete solutions for their customers.
Successful companies share risk and gain economies of effort
through collaboration with partners, vendors, and customers.
Successful companies deploy key skills quickly and leverage
critical mass regardless of geographic location.
Successful companies have a network infrastructure mature
enough to support efficient, effective, and secure team
collaboration.
The Web is the global team workplace.
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The Challenges
Project management burden is stealing “cycles” from valuable
engineering resources.
Project complexity and speed is now beyond the single
“gatekeeper’s” scope.
Clarity about project objectives must be diffused globally.
Clarity about roles and responsibilities must be diffused globally.
Duplication of effort must be avoided at all costs.
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Why are there 10 spreadsheets for the same data?
Need consistency in resolving issues and managing risks –
misdirected action plans, too little, too late.
Need efficient and timely access to project critical information,
regardless of location.
Need global accountability across the project team.
We must proactively manage risk.
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TeamCluster Project Value Proposition
TeamCluster Project places focus where
it belongs:
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The team.
Plan and execution.
Risk management.
Information management.
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Teamwork – All for One and One for All
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Cross-functional Team Management
Each critical skill set for the project must be
represented as part of the team.
Team member roles and responsibilities must
be globally defined.
Team member roles must be clearly
endorsed.
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Part time teams never succeed.
Priorities must be clearly established and
followed.
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Plan and Execution
Project
Accomplish
Stage
Phases
Meet
Plan
Milestones
Complete
Do
Deliv erables
Assess
Issues
Remov e
Resolv e
Actions
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Action Oriented Project Execution
Ease project management burden:
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Clear links between the plan and results.
 Plan - top down:
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Product feature set for each Phase – time to market.
Phase completion as a set of milestones.
Deliverables with clear ownership.
 Execute - bottom up:
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Issues are gates to deliverable completion.
Accountability for each issue and action plans to resolve
them.
Targeted actions to remove gates and unblock the team
progress.
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Risk management
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Risk management
Assessment:
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Identify risks before they become costly problems.
Prioritize – probability x impact = exposure.
Analyze to identify risk type and anticipated
impact timeframe.
Action oriented control:
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Develop risk management action plan:
 Mitigate, transfer, watch, execute contingency plan.
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Assign clear ownership for risk resolution.
Reassess risk exposure
define next corrective
action.
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Information Management
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Real Time Information Sharing –
Key to Success
Publish:
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Team members create subject area folders.
Upload documents into common repository.
Subscribe:
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Team members receive automatic email
notification of new relevant documents.
Global Web access from desktop, laptop, PDA.
View, download and use information to accomplish
project objectives.
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TeamCluster Components
Web browser access – no client installation!
Industry standard server computing platform:
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Java runtime.
Web server.
Java servlet engine.
Relational database management system.
Seamless standards based server installation.
Complete OS platform deployment
independence:
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Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 2000.
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Flexible Deployment Model
Corporate intranet or extranet.
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Server configuration to client requirements.
Leverage corporate network infrastructure, remote access,
and security.
Keep project critical information assets under direct physical
control.
Managed hosting (rackspace.com)
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Best of breed enterprise application hosting:
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Dedicated servers.
99.999% availability.
24x7x365 guarantee – Fanatical support.
55% guaranteed extra bandwidth capacity.
Global presence through US and UK data centers.
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TeamCluster Project Summary
Boost distributed team productivity to meet
ROI targets.
Ease project management burden.
Execute to plan with predictable, consistent
results.
Integrate management of project critical
information.
Enable universal Web based info access on
demand – from anywhere, anytime.
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Questions? Comments?
Contact TeamCluster at
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[email protected]
(408)374-9769
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