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Complex projects and programmes
Project managers need reliable operational planning to manage extensive initiatives with dependencies, schedules, resources, budgets and risks.
Enterprise project, portfolio and resource management
Software for enterprise organisations
Can Do connects operational project management with organisation-wide resource and portfolio planning. Project managers can manage their initiatives realistically, while the PMO, resource managers and senior management work from the same planning foundation.
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In a short call, we discuss your requirements and whether Can Do fits your project organisation. This allows us to tailor a subsequent demo to your needs.
- Manage projects realistically, including schedules, resources, dependencies, budgets and risks.
- Coordinate resources and skills across projects, departments, companies and locations.
- Assess portfolio decisions and their impact on existing initiatives early.
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Which enterprise organisations is Can Do ideal for?
Headcount alone does not determine whether an enterprise PPM solution makes sense. What matters is the complexity of the project environment and how closely projects, resources, departments and decisions depend on one another.
Can Do is particularly suited to organisations facing several of these situations:
Multiple projects and portfolios at once
Ongoing, planned and proposed initiatives need to be assessed and prioritised across several departments, with their impact on one another taken into account.
Shared resources and skills
Key people, specialists and scarce skills are needed across multiple projects, departments or locations at the same time.
PMO, governance and different ways of working
Central standards, KPIs and decision-making processes need to be established without requiring all project teams to follow a single traditional, agile or hybrid approach.
Established systems and organisational structures
Project, resource, HR, financial and status data sits in different systems and organisational units and needs to be brought together for effective management.
Can Do adds particular value where operational project planning and organisation-wide resource and portfolio decisions need to be considered together.
Challenges in enterprise project management
Do these challenges sound familiar?
Complex project organisations often face several of these situations at once:
Projects & programmes
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Project plans are maintained in detail, but changes in one initiative affect other projects, resources and schedules. Dependencies often become visible too late.
Resources & skills
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Several projects and departments compete for the same specialists and skills. Availability, regular commitments and priorities need to be considered across the organisation.
Portfolio & priorities
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Strategically valuable initiatives are prioritised without sufficient visibility into whether they can actually be delivered with the available capacity and skills.
Governance & organisation
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The PMO and senior management need shared standards, roles, KPIs and a common basis for decisions, while operational teams work in different ways.
Data & systems
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Information is spread across project, ERP, HR, BI and collaboration systems. Management reports have to be consolidated manually or rely on inconsistent data.
When several of these situations occur together, neither isolated planning of individual projects nor management reporting alone is sufficient. A shared planning and management foundation is needed, from each individual project to the entire portfolio.
Why Can Do?
Why Can Do fits complex enterprise project organisations
Can Do brings projects, resources, skills, portfolios, budgets and risks together on a shared planning foundation. This connects operational project planning with management across the organisation.
Project managers manage their projects realistically
Schedules, effort, resources, dependencies, risks, budgets and changes can be planned and managed within a shared project model.
Resource managers coordinate capacity and skills
Availability, roles, skills, working patterns, absences and existing commitments are considered across projects and departments.
PMOs and portfolio managers gain a consistent overall view
Ongoing, planned and proposed initiatives can be assessed, prioritised and compared in terms of resource requirements, risk, budget and strategic value.
Management assesses the impact before deciding
New initiatives, delays and changes in priority can be explored through scenarios before operational plans are changed.
What makes Can Do different
From individual projects to the enterprise portfolio, on one planning foundation
Can Do connects detailed planning with organisation-wide management. Project managers can manage their projects operationally while keeping their plans connected to the resource and portfolio context.
- Plan realistically even with uncertain estimates of durations and effort.
- Simulate new initiatives, schedule changes and changes in priority in different scenarios.
- Make resource and skill conflicts visible across projects and departments.
- Traditional, agile and hybrid ways of working can coexist.
- Can Do AI supports risk, workload and variance analysis, while people retain responsibility for professional decisions.
Enterprise-ready
Complex organisations need more than functionality. Integration, governance, security and hosting also need to fit the existing business environment.
Model complex organisational structures
Multi-tenancy and differentiated roles and permissions allow business areas, companies and locations to be managed separately while also supporting planning across them.
Integrate existing systems
Standard interfaces and the open REST API enable Can Do to integrate with existing ERP, HR, collaboration and reporting systems.
Choose flexible hosting options
Can Do can run in your own data centre, in a private cloud or in the Can Do Cloud on AWS in Frankfurt. AWS holds a C5 attestation based on BSI criteria.
Support governance and traceability
Roles, permissions and traceable changes support central governance and compliance requirements.
Enterprise rollout without a big bang
1. Pilot
Start with a representative department, portfolio or selected projects, and define the relevant data sources, roles and decision scenarios.
2. Validate
Check planning logic, data quality, governance, KPIs, roles and integrations against real requirements.
3. Scale
Connect further projects, departments, companies, locations and portfolios on a validated foundation.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Is Can Do only intended for PMOs and senior management?
No. Can Do is also specifically designed for project managers and those responsible for operational project delivery. Project managers plan and manage their initiatives with schedules, effort, resources, dependencies, budgets and risks. At the same time, this planning feeds into the wider resource and portfolio view.
What size of organisation is Can Do suitable for?
Headcount alone is not the deciding factor; what matters is the complexity of the project work. Can Do can be relevant from around 50 employees when several projects share resources and skills. In enterprise organisations, it adds particular value when several departments, locations or portfolios need to be managed together.
Can Can Do model multiple business areas, companies and locations?
Yes. Can Do supports complex organisational structures. Multi-tenancy and differentiated roles and permissions allow organisational units to be represented separately and access to be controlled precisely. At the same time, projects, resources and portfolios can be planned and analysed across units in accordance with those permissions.
How can Can Do integrate with our existing systems?
Can Do integrates flexibly with existing IT and business systems. REST calls and the open REST API enable connections to ERP, HR and other enterprise systems. Relevant data can also be provided to BI and reporting solutions such as Microsoft Power BI. Established applications and processes do not need to be replaced unnecessarily.
Can Can Do manage agile and traditional projects together?
Yes. Can Do supports traditional, agile and hybrid project environments. Integrations such as Jira allow teams to retain their operational ways of working while resource, portfolio and management oversight share a common foundation.
Does Can Do have to be rolled out across the entire company immediately?
No. A practical approach is to start with a representative department or portfolio, validate planning logic, roles, data and KPIs, and then extend the solution step by step.
What hosting options does Can Do offer?
Can Do offers flexible hosting options to suit IT, security and compliance requirements. The solution can run in your own data centre, in a private cloud or in the AWS Cloud. For cloud hosting, Can Do uses the AWS Frankfurt region. AWS holds a C5 attestation based on the criteria of Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
How does the licensing model work?
Can Do offers Manager, Resource and Read-Only access, allowing decision-makers, teams and stakeholders to participate according to their responsibilities.
Current terms are available on the Can Do pricing page.
Further reading
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