how calance simplified project management for lausd
DESCRIPTION
Primavera Project Manager is used extensively in education sector. The Los Angeles Unified School District has a New Facilities Group that manages the construction of 350 schools and to manage these project schedules, they use Primavera Project Manager. But they are also required to create monthly baselines, which is a tedious and time-consuming process. This is where Calance was brought in – to create an application that helped simplify project scheduling and creation, deletion, and assigning of baselines. Find out how Calance addressed the key issue and saved an enormous amount of time. Calance is an industry leader in Information Technology, a CMMI level 5 company serving customers since decades. Visit our website to find out more about us http://calanceus.com/TRANSCRIPT
Case Study
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Overview
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was founded in 1853. LAUSD, the second largest school district in the nation, enrolls more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, at over 900 schools, and 187 public charter schools. The boundaries spread over 720 square miles and include the mega-city of Los Angeles as well as all or parts of 31 smaller municipalities plus several unincorporated sections of Southern California.
Challenges
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is one of the largest school districts in the nation. The New Facilities group manages the construction of over 350 schools, and needed to manage these projects in an accurate and timely manner.
They use Primavera Project Manager (P6) to manage project schedules, and are required to create monthly project baselines. These baselines must be named, then assigned to all users in a consistent manner. While this is possible to do in P6, it can be challenging to create many baselines at once, and users must be out of the system during the baseline creation process. LAUSD also found that when creating such high volumes of baselines, it is necessary to be able to delete older baselines in batches.
Our Solution
Calance was brought in to create an application that allows LAUSD to manage the baselines. We created a set of web-based tools that let users create baselines for multiple projects quickly and easily. The application also allows them to assign user and project-level baselines, and to select and delete baselines. The application is simple to use, incorporates P6 security settings and greatly reduces the time that users must be out of the system.
Results
The application has saved LAUSD an enormous amount of time. For example, the process of creating baselines once took four hours of tedious typing. Now it happens in under 15 minutes. Furthermore, baselines are automatically and consistently named, and it is easy to make sure that baselines are assigned properly. Scheduling projects is no longer a daunting task; managers are now able to focus their time and efforts on project delivery.
Calance is a full IT lifecycle company and a recognized leader in information technology solutions across North America, specializing in cloud, mobile, enterprise and talent services. With over 25 years of experience, multiple awards and certifications, including certification as a CMMI Level 5 organization, and offices across the globe, Calance has the capability to master solutions across countless business verticals. Leveraging leading technology solutions and extensive experience, Calance is able to assist clients in solving complex business issues and managing critical implementations, enabling their transformations to new technologies.For more information about Calance, please visit: www.calance.com
About Calance
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)Primavera Project Manager