Social Housing & Digital: Manage the project portfolio of the CIO

Guiding social housing players in their digital transformation projects

The ELAN (Evolution du Logement, de l'Aménagement et du Numérique) bill has two specific objectives. Firstly, to help smaller players in the sector, and secondly, to accelerate the digital transformation of the building industry. The ELAN bill is the first to propose a real law in favor of digitalization. Digital transformation means digitizing business processes, dematerializing tenant/supplier interactions and centralizing data. These are all essential elements for achieving sales targets and reducing management costs . There is a desire to create an accreditation system for digital tools used by real estate professionals. The use of digital tools is of course a mandatory step in the digital transition: innovation, better time management, increased productivity... IS then need to manage their project portfolio. This is where PPM (Project Portfolio Management) software comes into its own.

social housing project portfolio management software

The challenges website for CIO & Project Managers at Offices Publics de l'Habitat (OPH)

Manage projects from the specification phase through to qualification and production, guaranteeing deadlines, quality and costs,
Lead IT projects through steering and validation meetings, in liaison with project managers and business departments,
Participate in the smooth running of the information system (quality, security, reliability, costs, deadlines) and its development,
Manage the information systems project portfolio in terms of design, organization, development and deployment (hardware, network, workstations, etc.),
Analyze the needs of business departments and put in place the necessary support to meet their requirements,
Draw up and manage the budget allocated to the department, with particular emphasis on projects.

When the demand for digital services continues to grow, visibility on delivery capacity becomes critical.

Project tracking in Excel is becoming increasingly impractical due to the sheer volume of information involved,
Without a vision of team capacity, CIO is unable to take overloads into account,
The manual consolidation of data in dashboards does not allow steering indicators to be provided to various bodies (steering committee, project review, workload planning committee, quarterly presentation to the management board, etc.).

Opt for project portfolio management software aligned with challenges of the CIO social housing website.

Project Monitor software supports property managers in their digital transition

Project Monitor is a Project Portfolio Management software package, adapted to challenges the management of IT departments in the social housing sector.

The social housing sector is undergoing a dynamic digital transformation. Project management is becoming an integral part of social housing organizations. Landlords are setting up organizations that combine hierarchical and project-based approaches at all levels and in all professions. The OPH information system must define the needs of the Office and its users in terms of information system organization and telecommunications. In addition, regular exchanges must be organized with the business departments, and requests and incidents reported must be analyzed.

In this context, the success of a project depends in part on a perfectly defined project organization. In other words, a set ofsteering and monitoring methods andtools that the project manager must know how to use and pass on to his project team.

To this end, CIO can facilitate the management of IT projects with an all-in-one PPM tool, which includes functionalities such as: multi-project dashboards, a workload plan, a schedule, tasks, the collection and tracking of IT requests, and also budget tracking.

Project Monitorthe project portfolio management solution for social housing CIO

The key benefits of PPM software Project Monitor :

Reporting: set up management dashboards, transmit quality reporting to general management, set up governance of the IT-related project portfolio,
Data: centralized information and simplified data entry, real-time access to information,
Priorities: study needs, prioritize projects in conjunction with business departments, and prioritize development, operation and maintenance,
Budget: manage budget planning according to the established IT master plan.

The various functions provide 360° project portfolio management:

Resource planning provides information on the Digital Transformation Department's capacity to deliver. This enables the DTN (or CIO) to commit to delivery dates for new projects. Resource management also helps to identify critical resource requirements.
Project dashboards facilitate arbitration and project prioritization.
As project information is centralized, it is automatically consolidated to facilitate project review meetings , as well as all project committee meetings.
Project templates save time at the design stage, by directly inheriting a standard schedule , a standard work schedule or standard deliverables... Templates also standardize methodology.
It's possible to track budget performance by project or by portfolio (envelopes), and even to build a provisional budget (PPI).