Today, project management software isn't an option, often, it is a necessity.
Track and document:
- what needs to be done and why
- what is being done
- what has been done and why
- why it needs doing
- what to do when or if it's not done
- who is involved and when
Use this software wisely and you'll wield a very powerful management tool.
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Why use FlexProject?
FlexProject will help you to:
Manage your projects efficiently:
- manage inter-project dependencies
- work on complex projects with geographically distributed teams
- determine problems and inaccuracies quickly
Manage your resources:
- solve resource issues, determine "common" resources, which can all company departments can use
- distribute resources, based on their professional skills and qualification
Communicate easily:
- improve external and internal communications between several project teams, regions, resources, contractors, partners, suppliers and distributed teams
- improve company information streams
- secure and determine access rules to project information in real time
- create "virtual" project teams across the entire company
Manage your project processes efficiently:
- save and analyze already completed projects to improve company business processes
- identify and categorize risks and problems, which can appear during future project realization
- integrate project information with company external information systems and applications
- use plans and templates of successfully developed projects
What you can do with it
You can do the following with the software:
Manage projects:
- initiate a project, manage and control project development
- collect information about the projects
- analyze both separate projects and company operation as a whole
Manage project tasks:
- manage hierarchical project tasks for detailed control over the project
- initiate tasks and control their execution
- track man hours, schedules
- evaluate risks by getting the necessary information
Manage project work hours:
- register and control time spent on project development
- track developer and management man hours
- analyze man hours and budget data in the company or its departments
Communicate effectively about the project:
- control project status
- use email notifications system
- track important events and send notifications to the interested parties
- observe tasks from different angles to visualize the information (by performers, by activity types, etc with visual identification of the task statuses)
What is it?
You can use this project management software, designed specifically for you, to manage work, where collaboration with others is required, and keep track of work, documentation, objectives and so on is important.
The work might be 'projects', that is a collection of tasks that are required to complete one or more clearly specified objectives. Or the work might be something more diffuse or ongoing, where keeping track of who needs to do what and when, and keeping track of documents, specifications, etc. FlexProject can do all of these things.
You can also use the software to track discussions and brainstormings, develop strategic or tactical plans. You can use it as:
- calendar and diary system for a group of people assembled for one or more projects, tasks or purposes
- repository of information about what is required and its deadlines
- place to receive incoming email addressed to a 'project' or task
- document storage place
- time charting tool to graphically show progress of projects or tasks;
- discussion database
- place to note up developments or just store file notes
Do more with Lotus
Since FlexProject is built on Lotus Domino/Notes, it empowers you to:
- use and administer multi-user and multi-project applications; scale and setup the software for the entire organization for all project members
- save large volumes of project data and organization information
- distribute project management specific tasks: accountability for separate projects and the organization as a whole
- provide each project member with the corresponding easy to use tool, sufficient enough to perform his functions: both for project team members and for project and department leads
- integrate with other information systems of the organization
- analyze project portfolio
- develop multi-developer projects
- distribute your work across departments, companies and regions
- distribute the information effectively
Software requirements
FlexProject requires an installation of the Lotus Domino Server 5.0.4 or higher and Lotus Notes 5.0.4 or higher for each user. You can buy the Lotus Domino/Notes software at IBM.
The client machines also need to have the Win32 system installed (Windows XP/2000/98/NT4).
Hardware requirements depend on the number of users.
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