Transcript Leveraging Success Through Effective Project Management Tools and Processes Charlie Schloff Manager, C3P Project Office Ford Motor Company File: MPUG 2000 v1.2.ppt Purpose Of This Presentation    Raise your awareness.

Leveraging Success Through
Effective Project
Management Tools
and Processes
Charlie Schloff
Manager, C3P Project Office
Ford Motor Company
File: MPUG 2000 v1.2.ppt
Purpose Of This Presentation
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Raise your awareness of how Project
Management tools, processes and
methodologies are being applied to meet
today’s business challenges.
Initiate creative thinking in how Project
Management of this type can be strategically
applied to your specific business needs.
Heighten your interest of the level of business
value that can be accomplished through
effective Project Management.
Ford’s Global Presence
The Evolution of Vehicle Development
 Major
changes have
occurred since the
industry began.
 Designs were completed on
paper through the 1970’s.
 Communication methods
were slow and limiting.
 Little
concurrent engineering
taking place.
 Manufacturing problems were
dealt with downstream
resulting in a time-consuming
and expensive process.
The Making of Cars and Trucks
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Designers worked exclusively with clay models
to formulate styling themes and prototypes.
Physical prototypes were used for fit, function
and visual verification.
In the 1970’s, the use of
computers to conceive
initial designs were
beginning to emerge.
In the late 80’s innovative
companies began to capitalize on the industry’s
need for state-of-the-art computerized
efficiencies in vehicle design, engineering, and
manufacturing.
1995 … C3P Vision
“Integration of Ford’s Enterprise Product
Development through Global Product
Information Management and Advanced
Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing
and Engineering Functionality”
C3P Defined: CAD CAM CAE PIM
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
 Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
 Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
 Product Information Management (PIM)
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But What is C3P?
A suite of globally integrated applications
that complement each other.
 A single source library of information.
 Documented processes and methods that
facilitate efficient use of the tools.
 A new way of doing
business that
transforms our
way of thinking.
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A Typical PM Challenge…
With any significant change, many issues rise to
the surface. As Project Managers, we fill the
gaps with new and/or refined processes and
technologies. Typical things we see are:
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Inconsistency in data management solutions
Process reinvention
Lack of effective utilization of limited resources
Information overload due to data inconsistencies
and disorganization
Sluggish metric reporting and data gathering
Lack of proactive planning and forecasting
e-nabling archaic and often flawed processes which
result in us making more mistakes even faster!
Business
Strategy
Program
Management
Business Goals
Portfolio Management
Programs
Projects
Projects
Projects
Project
Management
Training, Mentoring & Knowledge Transfer
Collaboration & Performance Tracking
The P-Cubed Delivery Model
Executive Decision
Making & Involvement
Prioritization &
Investment Decisions
An Integrated Portfolio
of Managed Projects
Consistent, Repeatable
Project Delivery
C3P Implementation Planning System
Mission:
To support proactive planning and forecasting of C3P
deployment and implementation efforts across the
Enterprise through one central web-based repository of
up-to-date and reliable information.
Strategy:
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Apply forecasting methodologies to the business thereby
enabling proactive global C3P deployment and
implementation efforts.
Consolidate multi-sourced information into a secure webbased database to facilitate the information needs of the
responsible deployment and implementation initiatives.
Apply sound business decisions that determine where C3P
is needed, when it is needed, and who is responsible to
deploy what C3P technologies to whom.
C3P Implementation Planning System
Online
Product
Development
Vehicle
Operations
Powertrain
Operations
Customer
Service Div.
Facility
Services
Program
Change Mgmt.
Global Supplier
Planning
Education &
Training
Corporate
Systems
Telecom’s
Planning
C3P Project
Office
Technology
Vendors
Information Customers
and Data Sources
Effective capture
of data for proactive knowledge
management
Data
Flexible data
analysis for
dynamic decision
making
Feeds
Resource
and
Workload
Allocation
Product
Program
Information
Facility
Planning
Information
Multi-tiered
Metric
Reporting
Effective
communication and
collaboration for
robust planning
processes
C3P Implementation Planning System
The solution is strategic in that it can be applied beyond
the scope of its original intention and design by transforming
x-business processes into e-business processes.
The e-Business Advantage:
 Creates a view-to-the-future for proactive planning.
 Enables real-time updates and reporting available globally.
 Distributes information gathering in a centralized system.
 Provides consistency in data management.
 Uses “hard” metrics to more effectively manage the
business.
 Is interactive to satisfy all levels of management.
 Incorporates dynamic security management.
Key PM Business Drivers
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Leverage MS Project Central and Project 2000
capabilities which integrate the existing database
functionality with advanced project management
technologies.
Consolidation of issue management tools into a dynamic
project tracking and notification system.
Integrate “digital dashboard” methodologies to enable
more efficient and effective management of the
business through robust and dynamic metric reporting.
Integration of specific processes and metrics for
expanded proactive planning and deployment capabilities.
Ability to hear customers and target consumers through
the use of strategic project management designed to
drive the business to the next level and beyond!
Global Leadership
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To be the leader in automotive
products and services we must
also lead in technological capabilities
and global business processes.
Ford is clearly establishing
itself as that leader through
strategic partnerships, effective
use of technologies and managed process
improvement initiatives.
Questions
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Answers
THANK YOU!