Tackle Your Greatest Challenges
Our Solution-Approach:
Dynamically Manage Employee Allocation across Departments and Silos
Skilled Labor Shortage
Maximize Productivity and Employee Satisfaction
Develop ideas into reality with the right people. With Meisterplan, you know who is available, when, with how much capacity and with which skills. In this way, you’ll find the right balance between productivity and employeeEmployeeSynonym for → ResourceResources are all the people, places and things that you need to complete projects. The most important resource? Employees, of course! satisfaction.
Complexities
Focus on the Essential Information
Get an overview of your complex projectProjectA project is a time-limited undertaking with defined objectives and resources that delivers unique results and often includes complex tasks. environment by collecting only the essential data and preparing it in such a way that it leads to fast and well-rounded decisions at any time.
Unexpected Changes
Flexible Planning
With Meisterplan, you can dynamically plan with all relevant views and information in one software. Use the simple and interactive views to quickly adapt your plan when unexpected conditions arise.
Leading Companies Are Successful with Meisterplan
The biggest value that Meisterplan gives us is the ability to communicate across the enterprise what’s being worked on. It adds transparency as to why things are stacked ranked, and it holds people accountable to decisions that were made. This has resulted in more projects being completed on time, and more projects being aligned to a strategy, because they were accurately prioritized.
I give Meisterplan an A+ for the experience of modifying the project timeline and resourcing. Consider this model if you’ve struggled to forecast resource capacity using spreadsheets or large commercial tools.
Meisterplan opened our eyes to resource bottlenecks and new portfolio solutions.
We successfully run 400 projects and 20 programs in our portfolio with Meisterplan. Although many have tried, you can’t manage that many programs and resources in Excel templates. But you can with Meisterplan.
I believe in the solution and see how it can benefit any company that manages multiple projects simultaneously. Which I think is just about EVERY company!
Specific Use Cases
On-Time, Reliable Delivery of Customer Projects
The challenge: An essential factor to a company’s success is delivering customer projectsProjectA project is a time-limited undertaking with defined objectives and resources that delivers unique results and often includes complex tasks. on time, which requires careful planning to find skilled and available employeesEmployeesSynonym for → ResourceResources are all the people, places and things that you need to complete projects. The most important resource? Employees, of course!. If your company doesn’t deliver on time, you will lose your customer’s trust customers and your credibility. Finding the capacity to just meet the deadline can cause overtime, employee disastisfaction and eat into profits. But how do you make realistic forecasts?
The solution: In Meisterplan, projects are planned with all of the relevant milestonesMilestoneIn project portfolio management, a milestone marks an important point in a project’s progress that requires monitoring or decision-making. Milestones indicate project phases, marking the completion of objectives or the…, dependencies, and necessary roles. It gives you a detailed view of which employees you need, when and for how long. In the interactive views, you can see who is available when, and what impact your project will have on the rest of the portfolio. This allows you to provide realistic commitments and ensure that other projects are not at risk.
Drive Innovation by Reducing Idle Time
The challenge: It is extremely difficult to deal with the pressure of delivering innovation as quickly as possible in order to remain competitive. Often, the employeesEmployeesSynonym for → ResourceResources are all the people, places and things that you need to complete projects. The most important resource? Employees, of course! you need are already working on other projectsProjectA project is a time-limited undertaking with defined objectives and resources that delivers unique results and often includes complex tasks., which delays development. To counteract this, many companies set up dedicated teams and programs that focus on the research and development of new products resulting in daily business falling through the cracks, while increasing the idle time of team members not actively involved.
The solution: With Meisterplan, you can precisely plan the capacities of each individual by taking into account their availability, important project milestonesMilestoneIn project portfolio management, a milestone marks an important point in a project’s progress that requires monitoring or decision-making. Milestones indicate project phases, marking the completion of objectives or the… that may affect their deadlines and other responsibilities. This eliminates the need for new teams and unnecessary idle time, maximizing employee performance without having to sacrifice capacity elsewhere. As a result, your company remains competitive by reducing your time to market.
Reliable IT Roadmaps
The challenge: IT departments often lack reliable planning partially due to their agile working methods, multiple dependencies and a lack of visibility and defined processes for prioritizing projectProjectA project is a time-limited undertaking with defined objectives and resources that delivers unique results and often includes complex tasks. proposals across departments. This is especially relevant when coordinating both agile and traditional teams who use different project managementProject ManagementProject management is the planning, steering, and monitoring of projects to achieve specific objectives within a given timeframe and budget. tools to attempt to create a uniform process and database.
The solution: With Meisterplan, you can collect all relevant information including capacity data and milestonesMilestoneIn project portfolio management, a milestone marks an important point in a project’s progress that requires monitoring or decision-making. Milestones indicate project phases, marking the completion of objectives or the… in one place and format. Our connectors, interfaces and integrationsIntegrationAn integration is a virtual interface that connects different software programs and enables automated data exchange between them. This allows for more efficient processes, better planning, and consistent information. allow you to pull your data whether it comes from an agile , project management or another type of tool, without requiring major changes for the IT department. This ensures management can get a realistic forecast of all teams including agile teams. Additionally, by using our Lean PPM Framework., all relevant stakeholders stay well informed.
With Meisterplan, Implementation and Data Maintenance Are a Breeze
The implementation of other software often fails because
- The maintenance of data is tiresome
- The added value is not recognized by the departments
- The tool is not compatible with the daily work routine or their system landscape
The implementation of Meisterplan succeeds because
- Only the relevant data is required for planning
- The data can be obtained conveniently via numerous integrationIntegrationAn integration is a virtual interface that connects different software programs and enables automated data exchange between them. This allows for more efficient processes, better planning, and consistent information. and interfaces
- There is no need for departments to get used to the new software.
- There are significant, noticeable improvements for everyone involved.
Our Team of Experts Will Ensure Your Success
Meisterplan was developed for your various use cases and together we can help you overcome your biggest challenges with the efficient allocationAllocationAllocating describes the strategic process of identifying the correct resources for projects or individual tasks and assigning them accordingly. of resourcesResourceResources are all the people, places and things that you need to complete projects. The most important resource? Employees, of course! (employees). To ensure your success we promise to deliver constant improvements, strong service, and up-to-date security standards.
Lean PPM
With Meisterplan and the Lean PPMLean PPMSynonym for → Lean Project Portfolio ManagementLean Project Portfolio Management (Lean PPM) is a lightweight framework for managing an organization’s project portfolio. It helps determine which projects to run, when to run them, and with which… framework, you reduce portfolio planningPortfolio PlanningPortfolio planning is the process by which companies decide which projects they want to carry out. This ensures that projects are in line with the company’s objectives and that the… to the essentials, unleashing the existing potential of employeesEmployeesSynonym for → ResourceResources are all the people, places and things that you need to complete projects. The most important resource? Employees, of course! while taking into account their well-being. This also maximizes efficiency and effectiveness.
Professional Services
Our experts are well-versed in our software and have experience in dealing with the use cases of your industry. We understand your struggles, which is why we will be with you every step of the way to ensure your success. When our customers win, we win.
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