Collaborative project management software for business

Collaborative project management software helps to organize effective work of the project group at task performance to maximize success of the project. Using that kind of software , project head can define roles, their area of responsibilities and sphere of competence. It should be designed according to the budget limits and determined terms. It can be easier achieved by applying affirmed and checked up approaches. For example, it is possible to use the approach according to which the group is divided into small teams. Participants of these teams allocate among themselves responsibility and add sphere of competence of each other. It gives the chance to focus accurate attention to needs of the project and to construct collaborative software process . The team is united by high quality requests, common project vision and by aspiration to its implementation.

VIP Task Manager is collaborative project management software that provides reliability of projects and manageability of project group. It offers tools for effective scheduling, development, implementation and support of solution . VIP Task Manager allows to maximize success and efficiency of projects throughout the whole project lifecycle. As a project collaborative solution , VIP Task Manager gives the chance to create various roles in the project group, determining their purposes, area of responsibilities and permissions. The collaboration group software allows to establish project groups both for small, and for big and difficult projects.

Collaborative project management software should respond to basic principles of management. VIP Task Manager responds to five major principles of project for establishing effective collaborative software process :

1. Providing the project group with authorities.

VIP Task Manager allows to allocate responsibilities (roles) for tasks and to build reports after their accomplishment. Role is permission level and responsibility area of a resource. In Resource List View all participant involved in the project are listed as project resource. For each resource you can create specific role and define tasks that should be assigned to the resource. In Permission panel you can specify role parameters, i.e. will the resource be able to create, edit or delete tasks, or only be able to view them. This role mechanism grants two benefits:

• Task performance of each role can be isolated from activities of other roles.
• The team is more effective if its participants have full view of project progress.

2. Focusing on project priorities.

VIP Task Manager allows to set priorities to the project group based on full understanding of the customer requirements and on customer's active participation in project implementation. This approach is applied in many effective project methodologies (for example, SCRUM methodology). The role "Product Manager" (also called "Product Owner") acts as the customer representative and is frequently formed by employee(s) of the customer's company. This role represents the business part of the project and provides its coordination with strategic targets of the customer. "Product Manager" is responsible for the control over proper understanding of business interests at making crucial project decisions. The role "Release Manager" is directly responsible for smooth project implementation and its functioning. This role establishes communication between decision-making process, its introduction and the subsequent support ensuring awareness of project group participants.

3. Be flexible and ready for changes.

Before the very beginning to the end of the project VIP Task Manager ensures the availability of all resource roles and their involvement into the decision-making process caused by occurring changes. This process maintains flexibility at work in the conditions of permanent occurrence of new tasks and requirements. Participation of all roles in decision-making process provides consideration of questions at all levels and from all points of view.

4. Sharing project vision.

As a software solution, VIP Task Manager allows to elaborate common (shared) vision to the project and to establish the complete approach of project group to the project implementation. When all participants of the project understand it and develop shared vision, they get possibility to coordinate their actions with the primary group goal. Without having such a vision, participants of the project group can be guided by contradicting sights at the project goals and that will considerably complicate group collaboration.

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