Project Management

1. Plan Projects

Using @task project management software, projects are defined by objectives, tasks, and metrics, as well as resources to be used, including time. Stakeholders of a new project plan the task workflow as well as the tasks themselves to meet their objectives, given their available resources. Using standard project management methodology, projects typically have a work breakdown structure (WBS), a budget, tasks that comprise the project, task dependencies, and a planned completion date.

2. Make Assignments

The project team makes assignments based on available skills and resources. Contentions for resources are reviewed and resolved in order to select the right people for the project.

3. Work and Collaborate

Team members both collaborate and coordinate by regularly using @task project tracking software to post the status of their own work, participating in discussions with other project members, and providing feedback on tasks done by other team members.

Roll-ups and status indicators are available to the entire team in real time, 24x7. This provides continuous, real-time visibility to team members and management.

Monitoring mission-critical metrics, such as status updates, elapsed hours, actual costs, and projected progress may be set up to track critical tasks and processes.

Earned Value ratios of CPI or SPI may be created to provide at a glance high-level indicators of the project's health.

4. Status Meetings

These may be conducted live or by using the enterprise's conferencing systems. With all attendees having the same project status information, meetings can quickly and accurately determine which corrective measures should be taken. Projects needing re-planning and mid-course corrections get the attention they need to produce the desired results, as quickly as possible.

5. Approval and Ongoing Issues

Tracking ongoing issues makes your team responsive to changes in conditions or specifications. Team members may readily collaborate to create resolutions as well as give approvals to those changes. Regular discussions of issues help identify and resolve issues.

6. Reviews

Project "post-mortems" attended by all contributors improve project management lifecycle planning and processes for all future projects. Reviews compare estimated costs and hours to their actuals along the entire WBS structure.