Want to get project disciplines into your organization fast? Here’s how
Introducing Project Disciplines is hard work
Lots of companies find introducing project disciplines slow, difficult and not very exciting. Staff often show resistance and it can be hard to get buy in and commitment at executive level where other stuff is seen as more important or pressing.
Well here’s some good news. The best way to get some project disciplines in fast is to buy a project management package.
But before you get too excited and start reaching for the cheque book, you need to make sure that you chose the right package.
Choose the right project management software
Choose the right software and accompany it with a process for running projects and some training and you’re cooking on gas.
If you choose well, your project management package will do all of the following:
- Provide the means for project managers to produce plans and keep them up to date
- Capture time worked and optimise staff utilisation
- Capture and track financials
- Monitor project status and publish project status reports
- Facilitate executive level reporting on all of the above
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While publishing our products over a specialized reviews directory we were asked: “How do you position yourself against your competitors?“. To summarize it the answer would be: “RationalPlan puts the accent on productivity and tries to be as easy to use as possible: straightforward and intuitive“.
Every project starts with a well-defined plan and schedule. But the reality offers a lot of uncertainty so the project may very well not evolve according to the initial plan. The result is that measures are required to adjust the state of the project to reflect the new reality.
Managing projects is not an easy job and in most cases the manager would greatly benefit from the use of a dedicated software. Starting from this necessity project management tools were created. But the main problem is if these tools are a real help for those that are using them or it is just a loss of time.
If you are an employee of a small organization or of a research institution, or just a freelancer, you are likely dealing with one-person projects. You are the team, you are the project manager, so you are responsible for all project documentation, communication, and, of course, project work.
RationalPlan 4.14 – Increased Collaboration Using Comments on Tasks and Support for Polish Language
RationalPlan started as an easy to use and straightforward project management software but it evolved into an embedded and powerful system that is now available even as a project management cloud service both for individuals and for companies that need a distributed solution with concurrent access from multiple users.
Important changes for this version
Adding comments on tasks while managing work within the Cloud is a feature aiming to increase collaboration among users. Instead of using communication solutions like email, phone calls or other external software tools, users will be able to discuss different task related issues directly within RationalPlan by adding comments. Everyone that is interested on a certain task – like the project manager, a responsible or the assigned resources – will get notifications by email whenever a comment is added on that task. (more…)