CIO Local authorities: THE toolbox

CIO en Collectivités: benefit from a toolbox to help you manage your project portfolios. Especially for your challenges, discover in this Special Report various articles, videos and guides that have been co-authored with industry experts.

In this special report dedicated to CIO local authorities, we offer you feedback, best practices and tools:

Video : How does the Digital Transformation Department of the Pays de la Loire Regional Council manage its project portfolio with dedicated software?

Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire equips its project and project portfolio processes with Project Monitor. This PPM (Project Portfolio Management) software provides 360° support: from tracking requests, to maintaining projects in operational condition.

Project portfolio management at the Pays de la Loire Regional Council from VIRAGE Group on Vimeo.

CIO Collectivités & Transformation numérique : Ille et Vilaine departmental council moves from roadmap to projects

How to set up a digital transformation plan within a local authority? The department of Ille et Vilaine has put its digital transformation ambitions into practice with its Feuille de Route, and shares its experience with you. Find out how to mobilize an entire community around challenges !

To address the two main beneficiaries: local users and local authority employees, the approach was structured around 7 axes:

  1. Access to information, rights and citizenship
  2. Digital literacy, a passport to transformation
  3. Agent comfort and efficiency in their environment
  4. Optimizing internal management processes
  5. Urbanization, the technical foundation for today's and tomorrow's gains
  6. Data for public action
  7. Digital literacy, a passport to transformation

Project methodology for local authorities: How to implement the Prince2® method?

Plaine Commune's DSIM has implemented the PRINCE2® methodology, as well as a common repository in Project Monitor to manage all projects in the portfolio.

  • How was the process of implementing the tool structured? What does a typical portfolio project look like?
  • What has the methodology changed in the project life cycle?

Take a look at this case study to see how a methodology can be applied within a PPM tool.

Prince 2 project methodology

Restructuring the multi-year project portfolio using a PPM tool: Feedback from the Strasbourg Eurometropolis

  • How can you improve visibility of project management?
  • From a resource planning point of view, but also from a budgetary point of view?

The Eurometropole employs no less than 8,000 people, including 120 in the Information Systems department! Franck Barbi explains his challenges project management in more detail in a case study.

Restructuring the multi-year project portfolio using a PPM tool: Feedback from the Strasbourg Eurometropolis

How can you integrate all stages of the project budget life cycle into a single tool?

...from budget preparation to payment tracking

Local authority budget

Project monitor made us abandon our Excel files for budget preparation and monitoring for good. Compared with Excel, the PPM tool Project Monitor is more reliable. In fact, it has enabled us to save 1 day's accounting time to... 1 hour! Sandrine CHABANNES - Manager of the Accounting, Contracts unit

As the tool is shared within the various departments, all those involved speak a common language. As a result, everyone benefits from and understands each other's involvement in the various stages of budget construction and monitoring.

BONUS - Downloadable white paper on the new challenges facing CIO Communities

CIO managers answer the questions:

  • How can we make projects the cornerstone of our digital strategy?
  • How does the Vendée department see Shadow IT as an opportunity?
  • What is the optimum frequency for project portfolio reviews?
  • What performance indicators do you need to track?
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