In my opinion, this is one of the most important and difficult phases of the process and UMT has developed an unique tool, a tool which represented a significant part of its success on the market. Selecting the projects is not only an economics activity where a company is limited by a set of constraints and it needs to work out which projects it should best work on within these limitations. It is also a matter of choosing the projects that best maximise the company's value by having the greatest impact on the company's strategic drivers. The scope is thus two-fold: first of all identifying a set of strategic drivers for the company and, second of all, choosing, in conditions of economic constraints, the projects which have greatest impact on these drivers.
The UMT Portfolio Optimizer has been developed using algorithms that the three partners have developed in the 90s and is definitely unique in the business environment in which UMT evolves. The greatest competitive advantage for the company's product in this case is represented by the product's uniqueness: there is no such product on the market and the company's clients have already been accustomed to this method of optimizing their project portfolio.
The Portfolio Planner is an important tool that helps senior managers optimize their human resource by optimizing staff allocation. The idea is that the human resource in a company needs to be fully utilized during a certain period of time. On the other hand, one needs to take into consideration issues such as milestones (deadline for the projects or part of the projects), project dependencies (one project cannot be done before another project or two projects need to be performed in the same time) or priorities (project A is more important...
For example, client X required a dashboard where each of the projects' variables would have been automatically calculated and a red-yellow-green would have been awarded to each of the project, in order to determine the project's status at a certain moment of time. Another client using the same product required that the red-yellow-green grades should be noted manually, with comments and motivations in each case. As such, for a
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