Because InScope was founded by long-time Program & Project Management Professionals, strategy and delivery are at the heart of InScope.
Optimize:
Strategically Optimize your CIP
What’s the right mix of projects to fund that gives your organization the greatest benefit as quickly as possible for the funds available? InScope gives you these answers and more. Using InScope’s Scorecard tool, you can build custom Project Scorecards that quantify benefits and reflect your agency’s strategy for success. And scorecards may be integrated with any other modeling system (including GIS) to completely automate the scoring process.
InScope offers the most powerful “what-if” project portfolio and program modeling available. Set your time-span and available budget along with any project constraints and InScope evaluates all possible configurations of the timing, costs, and benefits of your project plans to find the optimum CIP budget that provides the greatest benefit in the shortest time within your budget constraints. If priorities, constraints or project conditions change, your models update and can be optimized again!
Budget:
Build CIP Budgets with ease
The InScope Budgets workspace makes building out your multi-year CIP a breeze. In one screen, you can see all project cost needs planned by any number of departments/programs. Testing or making budget decisions is as simple as working in a spreadsheet. And you can allocate budgets by any number of funding sources in one workspace.
And because the needs are always greater than the money available, use the InScope Optimization analysis to guide your CIP preparation. As we like to say at InScope, “Costs are determined BY projects, but Budgets are determined FOR projects.” Once the CIP is set, project managers know the constraints they must live within as they manage their projects and you have the tool to monitor performance. And InScope reporting gives you the outputs you need to finalize those intrepid and official budget and CIP documents.
Fund:
Leverage Multi-Funding Management
Capital project budgeting and funding has become more complex with various grant programs, financing options and public-private collaborations. With InScope you can easily manage all funding sources and allocate them across budgets and projects any way you want.
InScope elegantly resolves multi-funding allocation by allowing fund allocations to individual project elements – like editing a percentage or dollar allocation in a spreadsheet. And because time and cost are entirely interlinked, you can easily comprehend and manage the utilization of funding sources over time.
Plan:
Project Planning that’s EASY, FAST, and INTUITIVE!
Programs, Projects, Scopes, Costs, Schedules, Budgets and more … are all in a simplified grid experience like your spreadsheets. InScope is not clunky or confusing – it’s a simple tool your project management team can REALLY use to spend less time managing work and more time doing work.
A core goal of InScope is to get the information you need with minimal “clicks”, rather than buried options, menus, and screens. InScope groups data in expandable and collapsable views called “Sockets”, similar to spreadsheets. With InScope Sockets, you can drill into the detail in one click, and never leave the screen! And if you need to plan and track internal resources, InScope includes the ability to allocate personnel, expenses, or equipment and track their utilization within timesheets and expense reports.
Deliver:
Assure CIP delivery like never before
Once you determine the right mix of CIP projects, you want to assure they’re done on-time, done on-budget, and done right. What gets measured gets done and InScope’s simple yet powerful project management tools and reporting keep your teams engaged and proactive. In one screen, you can monitor and control scope, time, cost and quality progress as well as instantly filter to the right mix of program and project data. And an InScope subscription can include a replicated database with custom BI reporting to give you the right metrics when you need them.
Use InScope Estimates & Contracts to manage every consultant, contractor, or vendor on your project. Use the InScope Project Status Report for routine Scrum & review meetings to keep your project teams on the same page. Use InScope Workloads to not only understand who’s doing what but know for certain everything can get done without overload or delays.
Integrate:
InScope’s straightforward and accessible data structure makes it the ideal platform to bridge between teams managing finances and teams managing projects. The InScope team can provide or enable API integrations with any other system to assure alignment across your agency.
