Volvo Group Increases Project Visibility and Control While Saving Employees Time
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The Volvo Group is a leading supplier of commercial and consumer transport solutions and customer financial services. Volvo IT, which provides solutions to the Group to manage its projects, wanted to improve employee efficiency by extending current resource management, time reporting, portfolio management, and other project management processes. The Volvo Group implemented Microsoft Project Server 2010 and made customizations to adapt to various internal processes and software applications. The Group is using Project Server 2010 to improve capacity planning to build its long-term strengths. Because of the customizations and the rich but simple user interface of the Microsoft Project Web App technology, the Volvo Group has cut the time spent entering project data by 40 percent. It also has improved project visibility and control, and can now provide more transparent resource management.
Love these quotes:
- We use Project Server 2010 to gain more control over which projects we are starting and stopping, and when. This means we contract out fewer assignments based on sudden demand fluctuations.
- With the tools in Project Server 2010, we can manage our portfolio of projects and our resources working on those projects to maximize our capacity.
- With Project Server 2010, we are better able to anticipate whether a project will be delayed. This gives us the opportunity to shape future contracting and distribution strategies.
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