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IBM Global Services - Kaiser Permanente Clinical Info System

Client Project / Industry Role / Skills Used
IBM Global Services
Boulder, CO
Clinical Information System
Healthcare
Project Manager
MsProject, MsOffice VBA, Perl

Designed an integrated project plan process using Microsoft Project.  This consisted of over 50 concurrent project plans linked by a common resource pool.  Project plans were source controlled thru checkout / checkin.  Customized the MsProject plans with over 200 components (Fields, Tables, Views, Filters, Forms, Calendars, Macros).  Used Visual Basic for Applications in Excel, Outlook & Access to develop the following automation.

  • Created a weekly process to integrate these plans and distribute the centrally maintained components.

  • Developed an automated process to maintain the individual resource calendars for 250+ people in MsProject by extracting vacation days from the Lotus Notes Vacation Planner tool.

  • Created an Excel timesheet to collect weekly actuals and allow bottom-up re-estimating thru remaining work and start/finish date adjustments.  This data was then automatically posted to the MsProject plans.  Developed an automated process to generate these timesheets and email them each week. 

  • Extracted and reported Earned Value information as well as calculating EV performance ratios (SPI, CPI, TCPI, etc.) not provided by MsProject. 

  • Created an automated process to generate S-curve charts as PDF files showing cumulative baseline, projected and actual work/starts/finishes for each MsProject plan.

  •  Created an automated MsProject plan auditing process that analyzed each plan for over thirty items. i.e. Task guidelines compliance, Task relationship quality, Resource assignment anomalies, etc.  This created a custom email for each plan owner with the specific plan issues identified.

  • Created a consolidated Resource Information report showing baseline, actual and projected hours by week by MsProject plan.  This was used to analyze resource-leveling issues.