PMADS - Army AT&L Program Management and Business Transformation - Enabled

The PMADS planning section enables both top-down objective setting and bottom-up contribution in a collaborative team approach. This provides for an integrated business process solution that connects workers, senior executive staff, and division managers across the enterprise. Enterprise planning dramatically improves the mechanics of the planning process and that translates into more timely and accurate plans. You can run what-if drills and perform various business models in days with shared enterprise wide data, rather than weeks or even months with manually collected "best guess data". You can turn annual budgets into rolling forecasts that give more accurate visibility into future operating performance.

PMADS planning section allows you to gain better visibility of your business plans and the budgets that drive them and helps to ensure accountability of organizational requirements and plans. The Planning section is actually comprised of two independent, yet interrelated modules. The robustness and flexibility of the system allows user's to build up task requirements at the lowest detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) module level or at a more summary level of the Requirements Programming module.

• WBS - Functional users in each of the programs division, Engineering, Logistics, Test, etc., enter task estimates and requirements according to the organizations WBS. The WBS structure serves as the basis for estimating program life cycle costs and out year program funding justification. Program management staff/analyst are then able to transfer these detailed task estimates into the area of the planning system that allows the Project Manager to approve or disapprove for funding requested requirements.
• Requirements Programming - This module of the Planning system can be developed by either WBS input or input directly by the functional users. It provides the Program Management staff/analyst with the framework to aid the Project Manager in having complete visibility into divisional requirements and thereby increasing his/her ability to accurately approve or disapprove requirements. This module then provides the mechanism for developing an executable obligation plan for the year.

The role based planning system provides for a collaborative team approach to the development of long range plans. The three broad user roles involved in the planning system are as follows:

• Project Manager - Approves or disapproves task requirements received from functional divisions.
• Division Manager - Submits task requirements for funding.
• Business Manager - Transfers division task requirements in to the section of the planning system that allows requirements to be aligned with funding