CONTACT Project Office

The CONTACT Project Office is a software solution offered by CONTACT Software that aims to enhance the success of engineering projects. It provides reliable processes and promotes agile teamwork, making it a valuable tool for enterprise-wide project organizations. This solution caters to various professions and industries, including project managers, engineers, product managers, quality managers, manufacturing managers, as well as the automotive, aerospace, energy, construction, and manufacturing industries.

Key Features

Hybrid Project Management: According to CONTACT Software, this feature allows for the combination of classical and agile processes, enabling planning, control, and execution by self-organized teams. It ensures consistent information and specifications across the worldwide project and program organization, facilitating collaboration and access to up-to-date data based on the Single Source of Truth principle.

Optimum Combination of Agility and Reliability: CONTACT Software claims that this feature provides a hybrid methodology that combines conventional tools with scheduling functions and modern collaboration tools. It aims to strike a balance between agility and reliability, with planning, control, and monitoring working together to offer project managers direct visibility of project progress.

Support for Planning and Execution: The CONTACT Project Office offers a traditional planning framework using proven methods, providing project managers with direct visibility of project progress. It also offers templates, Gantt charts, and planned specifications to support project teams. Additionally, agile tools such as activity streams and task boards are available.

Enterprise-wide Project Organization: According to the vendor, this feature ensures reliable projects by implementing best practices and compliance regulations. It supports the management of numerous projects in distributed teams, offering comprehensive template mechanisms, robust security, and rights systems. Multi-project and program support are also provided.

Speed up Processes with Digital Workflows: CONTACT Software claims that this feature accelerates project processes by enabling unhindered collaboration through digital workflows. Users receive immediate information on impending tasks, facilitating parallel processing and eliminating paper-based processes.

Efficient Agile Teams: The CONTACT Project Office focuses on value-added work by reducing administrative overhead. It offers a lightweight project plan structure and allows for decentralized management of information items. The vendor states that high-performance information logistics ensure the delivery of the right information at the right time.

Better Data for Project Control: According to CONTACT Software, this feature enables management by exception and drill-down principles. It provides key figures such as earned value, milestone trends, and FMEA for well-informed assessments with underlying cause analysis. Real-time data and reports are available for effective project controlling.

Seamless Integration of Project and Documentation Management: This feature, which CONTACT Software considers vital for project success, maps the structure of the product to be delivered. User stories can be directly integrated into the project backlog or task board, and it allows for a direct connection of open issues and comments with deliverables.