The Optimize product  has the same features as Microsoft’s Project, Oracle’s Primavera, Atlassian’s Jira, and other popular project management scheduling tools except for the following unique features:

 

1. Full Activity Support The Optimize product supports all organizational activities. These activities include all work accomplished by an organization. The Optimize product divides the activities into processes, products, and projects. At the same time, all other tools support only projects. The Optimize product integrates requirements with scheduled tasks for processes, products, and projects. In effect, The Optimize product is measuring and prioritizing all organizational activities daily.

 

2.   Requirements The Optimize product

   • Supports the requirements specification for each distinct process, product, project, and issue. Some tools, such as Requisite Pro and DOORS, support requirements but not scheduling. Tools like Microsoft’s Project and Oracle’s Primavera do not support requirements. There are tools such as Requisite Pro and DOORS which do support requirements but not scheduling. The Optimize product integrates requirements with scheduled tasks for processes, products, projects, and issues.
   • Analyzes requirements assuring stakeholders’ common understanding.
   • Verifies the testing of each low-level requirement.
   • Verifies the implementation of each low-level requirement.

    

3. Measurement The Optimize product measures staff members’ performance for each labor category they support. It computes the average hourly salary for each labor category and cost-effectiveness using each user’s measured performance. It does this using estimated effort for tasks versus actual hours to complete the effort while integrating the performance’s quality.

 

4. Ranking The Optimize product ranks each process, product, project, and issue using 32 built-in criteria plus organization-defined criteria to continuously determine how important each process, product, project, and issue’s task are relative to other tasks.

 

5. Resource Allocation Daily, the Optimize product allocates an organization’s critical tasks to its most productive resources using its patented resource allocation algorithm.

 

6. Analysis The Optimize product analyzes requirements and schedules and warns management as soon as possible when tasks are behind schedule, or costs exceed their estimates so management may take timely mitigation actions.

 

7. Performance Analysis The Optimize product analyzes each staff’s performance based on scientific data, removing biases or intuitive judgments relative to evaluating staff members.