Protocol provides a highly structured and flexible environment for managing project-based activities. The core elements common to all projects, as well as the method and business specific practices, can be managed with Protocol enabling improvements on many levels.

All projects face risks, must reach goals, handle change, take time and cost money. Protocol’s core features enable the effective management of these and other aspects of projects in a way that allows a company to keep up-to-date with what is happening, nomatter how or where a project is run.

Many companies standardise their project activities in order to have successful and repeatable projects, by adopting a project method such as the PRINCE2 or PMBOK. Protocol delivers the rules and objects defined by a methodology directly to a project organisation. This means that the start-up effort of a project is very short and the dependency on method experience throughout the project is reduced. Using Protocol to deliver a methodology to a project organisation enables project portfolio managers to deploy projects more effectively and keeps project members inline with the project and company goals.

Protocol allows a company to standardise its business related practices in the same way that a portfolio manager standardises projects using a project methodology. As well as the core and method elements of project management, protocol allows specific project practices to be defined. Practices can be defined for business activities such as sales projects, marketing projects or product industrialisation and can be controlled and improved independently or within the framework of a project methodology.

This three-layered approach to deploying your projects allows a company to take a multi-project and multi-portfolio view of progress and opens up the opportunity to make some significant gains in cost reduction, efficient working methods and information sharing.