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Effective collaboration in projects, programs and portfolios

The Principal Toolbox is a web-based software solution to professionally manage projects, programs and portfolios. Thanks to built-in support for PRINCE2, Stage Gate, MSP, Six Sigma, AgilePM, P3O, MoV, MoP and other best practices, the software actively contributes to setting-up and executing your projects, programs and portfolios. Each methodology can be customized to seamlessly fit with the processes in your organization.

Moreover, using the Principal Toolbox’ extensive graphical reporting capabilities, you instantly see project progress, possible risks, costs and hours spent, consistency between projects and the status of your project portfolio. Portfolio Management

With the Principal Toolbox you maintain control over all initiatives, projects and programs that are currently running within your organization. It allows you to create an optimal portfolio

based on your strategic objectives, performance indicators and preconditions. The Principal Toolbox simply shows the contribution of each initiative, project and program to your strategy and what this means for the available resources. And because the Principal Toolbox can directly calculate the effects of the various scenarios, you are able to shorten the time to review your portfolio with an average of 80%!

Program Management

The Principal Toolbox out-of-the-box supports the methodology Managing Successful Programs (MSP). However, you can also use your own best practice instead. The Principal Toolbox offers a complete overview of all current projects per program. In addition, it visualizes the dependencies between different projects. Thanks to its customizable program dashboard and many graphical reports you always have an accurate understanding of status and progress of your projects.

Project Management

With the Principal Toolbox it is possible to manage all projects. Simple projects can be managed through a Single Sheet. More complex projects can be managed through a complete project model, containing the entire project plan and all documentation and reporting templates. With the Gantt editor in the Principal Toolbox you can plan all activities and products, including resources and budgets.

How do you keep grip on the progress of programs and projects within your organization? Or determine the optimal mix of initiatives and projects in your portfolio matching your strategic objectives? And in which way do you assign scarce resources efficiently across all projects?

Project portfolio management with the Principal Toolbox.

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• Supports best practices such as PRINCE2, MSP, Stage Gate, Six Sigma, P3O, MoP, MoV and other;

• Can easily be customized, making it fit seamlessly with your organization, business unit or team;

• Fully web-based solution that can be implemented within a few weeks in any organization.

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Moreover, you can capture dependencies, define baselines and milestones and keep track of finished products. You can automatically assign costs, hours and resources to financial categories such as Capex and Opex.

Resource Management and time registration

The Principal Toolbox supports the entire process of planning, requesting and assigning resources. It optimizes resource planning on project, product and resource level, taking into account specific knowledge and skills per employee.

In addition, employees are able to register their hours in the Principal Toolbox, so you have an overview of spent versus budgeted hours per person at any given moment.

Straight to work!

In the Principal Toolbox you are able to capture, quantify and monitor the benefits of projects and programs. You can plan the realization of your benefits and capture the underlying dependencies. By connecting data from underlying projects, you will create consistency, synergy and transparency in the realization of the intended benefits.

Straight to work!

The Principal Toolbox is 100% web-based and is available as an online service (Software-as-a-Service) and as on-site installation. The implementation will only take a few weeks, including preparation of all custom reports. Because of the user-friendly user interface, project managers with minimal training are able to manage projects within the Principal Toolbox. All this ensures that you can get straight to work with professionalizing your project organization!

Benefits

Saves time and costs More effective collaboration and communication in projects and programs means saving costs and hours of project managers, project members and project board. Moreover, you are able to optimally schedule resources on ongoing projects and programs.

Manage project portfolios effectivelyThe Principal Toolbox allows you to constantly manage the optimal alignment between strategy and project goals, taking into account the strategic priorities, performance indicators and preconditions.

Gives grip through insightClear understanding of the project progress and an automated monitoring of the business case enables you to adjust projects quickly before risks get out of hand.

Fits seamlessly to your own approachYou are able to simply configure organization specific best practices. In addition, it is possible to capture all project documentation in the Principal Toolbox.

Quickly implementedThe Principal Toolbox is 100% web-based and therefore doesn’t require an installation on every workplace. In addition, the software is intuitive to use and can be implemented in any organization within two to six weeks.

Integrates seamlessly with existing softwareThe Principal Toolbox works well with MS Office and MS Project, but also with financial and time registration systems such as SAP, Oracle, Exact, Infor and PeopleSoft.

The Principal Toolbox for a lasting result!With the Principal Toolbox you are able to improve the results of your project organization within a short amount of time by applying and embedding best practices. This makes for a lasting result!

Our software is being used by:

Case: Delta lloydDelta Lloyd is continuously working on further growth, without losing sight of quality and efficiency. From that perspective the Project Office is also continuously working to improve the quality of its services. After an extensive selection Delta Lloyd selected the Principal Toolbox of Fortes Solutions. The most important reasons to select this solution were a positive business case, flexible support of the Delta Lloyd-wide project methodology and an intuitive user experience.

Realized benefits:- Project manager is back in control;- Very efficient and transparent reports;- One source, one truth.

Marja Bonting, head of Project Office: “The PoC went smoothly. Within 4 weeks all projects were transferred and we were able to get reports for management and board directly from the Principal Toolbox!”