Thingamy's Agile Project Processor

The three levels:

• Portfolio: A collection of projects or programmes and other work grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives. The projects or programmes of the portfolio may not necessarily be interdependent or directly related.
• Programme: A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control when not available from managing them individually. Programmes may include elements of related work outside of the scope of the discrete projects in the programme.
• Project: A temporary activity or sequence of activities, with multiple participants where the sequence of activities are directed by human knowledge to act according to the current situation and related circumstances.

Thingamy's Project Processor can include the full scope of Portfolios and Programmes or run Projects stand-alone.

Thingamy's Project Processor is no mere "management" tool, it runs the whole ting - capturing all that happens, disseminating all pertinent information to the right person at the right time, and makes all hand-offs of tasks seamless.

The Agile Project Processor is a ready-to-go system that can run any Project. Run as in automate the boring stuff, not merely manage. The end of DIY processes using dashboards and support tools, run the process.

Even if a Project seems "complicated" it really consists of five activities, no more, these are simply repeated with any number of people for any size of Project - "buy milk" or "put people onto Mars". Rest is automatic including real time reports and overview

1. Define the project - title, description, goal, plans, files. Project owner does this only once of course, then updates whenever needed.
2. Define a task - title, instructions, files. Project owner or any assignee if he splits a task into subtasks.
3. Decline the task or choose to do as a single task or split into subtasks - all information about the Project and task(s) given.
4. Do the task - notes, files added when done. All information about Project and task(s) given.
5. Review the task. Any assigner. Option to send back for more with a note and more instructions.

In short, pretty easy to get one's head around.

If you want to include the full scope of Portfolios and Programmes it would include activities prior to #1 above: Define the Business Objective of a Portfolio, split that into Programmes before splitting each Programme into Project(s).

Upgrade project managers from clerks to conductors.

• With more people involved and a multitude of assignments a "Project manager" (or "Project Owner") is named.
• He or she will then spend his/her days calling participants to get update, fielding requests for updates and updating lists, MS Project and spreadsheets. In short, clerking.
• Thingamy's Project Processor will run any size Project from start to finish, deliver all reports automagically and letting the "Project manager" become a conductor instead of a clerk.
• A "Project owner" (or anybody with the right) can start a Project at any time.
• Once started he/she will add the first assignments.
• Each assignee can decline, accept and do it as one task or split his assignment into any number of subtasks in parallel and/or sequence and any number of sub-subtasks - rinse and repeat. Hence an assignee will in fact be a "Part project owner" with the usual need to conduct the activities, report back and in general be on top of it all.
• Not limited to using the baton in full sight of the orchestra, the "Project Owner" can be allowed to add tasks, subtasks, change the path at any time and update the Project Plan holder at any time. Again all from Thingamy's Project Processor with instant effect.

Approximately 2/3rd of all time spent in Projects is spent on making the flow flow, full automation of the flow will triple your throughput. Or increase your profit ten times if your margin is 20%.

• In the "old days" the most meticulous of us planned our summer trips in the minutest detail. Routes and schedules were laid out, part of the vacation fun that; preparing and dreaming.
• Never did the details pan out, reality and less-than-solid vehicles saw to that, leaving the maps to sun bleach under the back window. But we had fun despite never getting to all the planned spots.
• Today we do the rough planning based on Google maps and experience. Once underway, connected with the world by mobile phone, driving a good car and directed by the GPS makes it all run smoothly despite weather changes or traffic jams.
• Projects are still like car trips in those "old days", maps with detailed routes and schedules are well prepared, then almost never updated as reality makes even the best laid plans moot.
• Projects need a nimble car with a well laid out driving position and a GPS. Thingamy's Project Processor is the first "GPS equipped vehicle for projects".
  
  

With Thingamy's Project Processor you don't have to (but can, if found useful):

• Use email.
• Call team members to discuss or ask questions.
• Have meetings.
• Write reports. Thingamy's Project Processor does that continuously and automatic.
• Request updates. All is visible.
• Answer requests for updates.
• Looking for stuff. In email clients, file trees and document handling systems.
• Update spreadsheet and project management tools.
• Spend time with to-do lists.
• Fire up any other software.

Instead you focus on actual work in full sync with your team or group or everybody else.

• Thingamy runs on any operating system (currently compiled on Windows, Linux and OS X) and requires no other software.
• It can be on-premises or in the cloud. We can even run it as a service if need be.
• Install is copy and paste then start.
• Implementation requires, once started, an update to participants via web interface or by import (XML or CSV). Other implementation issues depends on scope - including connection via API to other systems and use of the incorporated ESME microblogging function.
  
  

• Free in the beginning, until you see real results and your profits shooting up and basically is utterly dependent on the system.
• Then €30 per user and month ^*, no binding. Users equals all team / group / department / company users depending on scope.
• On-premise (Windows, Linux, OS X), in the cloud or hosted by us (at cost).
• Admin has it's own interface for settings and tweaks to/adding of workflows, reports, property fields and more.
• Layout specific files are open and accessible. API to create other interfaces or connect to other systems.
• API settings and rights is set through user roles.
• ^* free for consultants and in-house IT departments (if you're a consultant let's discuss distribution/partnering).
  
  

Six minutes simple walk through of the beginning of an extended understanding of a Project, typically starting with research:

Here's an online Agile Project Processor version that you can play with.

Now in new front-end, built on Rails, completely open for tweaks, using Thingamy's RESTful API - and made for iPhone/iPad - pure Process User Interface not more than you need to run it all.

Log on as "dennis@nn.com" with password "dennis" - he's a Project Owner and can start a project. Other logins are "james@nn.com"/"james" or "peter@nn.com"/"peter".

I'll clean up the instance every now and then...

IMPORTANT NOTE: This example is just a pre-built "solution" and can be tweaked or changed in any direction in the "admin" interface. Or you can start from scratch and build your very own bespoke business model - your own data model, your own processes/flows, your own bespoke reports, even accounting.

If you want to dive into it even more I can set up your very own one in minutes. Even better, if you give me some names/emails/roles and your typical "Project categories" I'll make it even more relevant.

Call/ping Sig on: +33 6 8887 9944, Skype: sigurd.rinde, Twitter: @sig, Email: sig@thingamy.com

Or use this form here to fill in a request and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

If you want to dominate your industry, or increase your profits by a factor, please feel free to contact me.

Thank You.

Sigurd Rinde

Phone: +33 6 8887 9944, Skype: sigurd.rinde, Twitter: @sig, Email: sig@thingamy.com.