KBase

The Tanner James KBase Tool   

When implementing programme and project management within your organisation, a critical success factor will be to understand how they will be applied pragmatically in practice. Tanner James recommends tailoring the proposed programme and project management solution to work effectively within your organisation, based on collaboration with appropriate stakeholders and taking into account your organisational culture and the way you do business. The Tanner James KBase Tool provides a repository and web-enabled delivery mechanism for capturing and distributing this in-practice guidance together with supporting templates that will provide your programme and project managers with a kick-start. The KBase tool can be used to document your project experience and even your quality management system. 

Features

• Easy development and update of your programme and project management methods and standards; either based around world recognised standards such as PRINCE2™ and PMBOK® or your proprietary system
• Creation of in-practice guidance, templates and template completion instructions
• Capture of your knowledge and experience
• Capture of your lessons learned
• Effective deployment of your programme and project management methods, standards and templates across your organisation
• Documentation and deployment of your business processes and quality management system
• Cross platform deployment via your intranet
• Customisation of the look and feel to fit with your intranet standard

Benefits

• Easy and quick to create and deploy your organisation programme and project management methods based on worlds best practice and drawing upon your knowledge and experience
• Standard processes accessible by all staff
• Easy to create and deploy in-practice guidance and templates which assist with the pragmatic application of programme and project management
• A defined set of techniques available to all staff
• A standard approach for deployment of your programme and project management methods and frameworksv
• An environment that encourages knowledge sharing
• An environment that promotes improvement of your methods and frameworks
• All information stored within a single repository
• Easy to make bulk changes across your methods and frameworks 
  

KBase Inclusions

• Fully customisable web-based tool (style-sheet driven)
• SQL Database back-end
• Full function editor (WYSIWYG)
• Powerful search and replace engine
• Back-up and restore facility
• Fully populated with PRINCE2™ Method including templates, template completion instructions and in-practice guidance based on Tanner James’ extensive implementation experience
• Fully populated with Managing Successful Programmes (MSP™) Method 

Technical Specifications

Server Requirements:

• Microsoft’s Internet Information Server
• Microsoft’s .net^TM frameworks 1.2 or higher
• Microsoft’s Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro
• Microsoft SQL Server 5.0 and/or MSDE

Client Requirements:

• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

Note: The KBase tool is shipped with .net frameworks and MSDE (for personal use)