PMCS™ helps and guides project and business managers in qualifying an identified opportunity, assess initial risks, helps in preparing accurate quotation / price for the project, preparing a quality proposal, and once your proposal is accepted by the client it helps in preparing a risk free contract. PMCS™ manages the milestones and associates deliverables. PMCS™ also manages project cost and revenue.  It helps project managers in evaluating employee’s performance and identifies good and bad performers. PMCS™ tracks project’s profitability in multi project environment and clearly identifies the profitable projects and the projects where the service organization is losing money.

PMCS™ provides facilities where project team members can report their performance and can compare their performance against their colleagues. PMCS™ produces number of MIS reports to help top management and project management in understanding their project-based business.
 

PMCS™  Helps in Learning from the experience

PMCS™ enriches its Information Base with the experience its users gain while managing the projects and makes this experience available to the project managers for planning and tracking future projects. Thus, PMCS™ helps users in preparing better quality proposals’ quotations, proposals, work breakdown structures (WBS) and project plans. Based on the experience, PMCS™ helps project managers in selecting the right strategy for project delivery.

PMCS™ Value to the Project Based Business

PMCS™ has ability to support all types of projects. Before delivery, MSCL optimizes PMCS™ to suit client’s Project based business through its built-in customization services.

PMCS™ can help steer projects no matter where you are in the project lifecycle. In the project definition phase, it helps qualifying the projects, performing risk assessment, preparing proposals/contracts and developing the initial project plans. In the project delivery phase, it helps in preparing detailed work schedule, managing the changes, performing the work, managing the cost and closing the project.

What makes PMCS™ unique is that it helps business and project managers in managing project’s financials and on the click of the button makes each project’s up to date cost, income and profitability available to the authorized users in easy to understand on-line queries and reports. This helps management in decision-making.

To be successful and gain a leadership position in today’s competitive and dynamic IT business environment, the IT solution providers must create a project culture within their organization. PMCS™ helps in doing this. PMCS™ may lead your organization towards ISO and CMM certification. Though, developers have made no such claim.

Top Ten reasons for adopting PMCS™

1.       Support for all nine Project Management Knowledge Areas

2.       Standards and Examples

3.       Reusability

4.       Accuracy in services quotations

5.       Simplicity, easy to learn

6.       Low cost

7.       Thin and Lean

8.       Support for full Project Life Cycle

9.       Developers' commitment

10.    A step towards ISO/CMM Certification.

Conclusion

At MSCL, we have already started realizing PMCS’s advantages. While MMPB, the PMCS™ base methodology, takes input from well-known project management methodologies, it is specially defined for IT companies of small to medium size. PMCS™ is entirely new development.  The objective of the authors of the PMCS™ is to provide a complete solution for managing the project-based business at affordable price.