Project Collaborator : Benefits

Customer Involvement

Today's customers want to be an integral part of the process. They desire to always know the current status, to review reports as they become available, to provide input and feedback on project segments, and to steer a project as it develops. In short they wish to have direct 24 X 7 access to the project team members.

This is where the Project Collaborator comes into play. Its presentation interface offers your clients instant oversight to the project's requirements, reports and status while at the same time offering a convenient interface through which they can provide targeted feedback. Plus with its automated announcement system customers will get notified of any project changes.

Vendor Participation

Keeping vendor's apprised of their responsibilities and coordinating their efforts with team members is a daunting task, which Project Collaborator makes simple. Vendor's now have direct access to the project requirements and deadlines and can immediately see when their contributions are due, and thanks to the multi-tier access this information can be shared without risking direct exposure to the clients.

Member Collaboration

Team members use to be able to walk over and talk to the other members and meet face to face as a group regularly. This made it easy to keep everyone up-to-date with the latest information. Now team members are often scattered around the world or working varying hours. This distance and separation creates an impossing problem for project managers, as distributing information through out the team is no longer as simply as holding a weekly meeting. Project Collaborator can bring the process of sharing, updating and distributing information on critical project steps back into focus by providing a central repository for the project requirements, reports and communications. With global access no one can claim that they were not informed while away from the office.

Accountability

Accountability, possibility the greatest benefit the application offers. Now that everyone has access and oversight to a written record of the project's steps and a feedback channel on the project's definition and progress, there are no justifiable complaints of not being apprised of the project's situation. Customer's will not come back and complain that they did not know that the project did not do this or did do that. Vendors will not be able to escape published deadlines. Employees will be confident in their responsibilities and due dates. Management will rest assured that they are apprised of a project's progress.

Knowledge Resource

Project Collaborator is about more then just getting the current activity completed. It is a methodology for utilizing standards and building on past experiences. With its template based project creation, team leaders can develop comprehensive, categorized plans-of-action for the team members to implement. By executing theses plans consistency and completeness is ensured from one directive to another.

As the library of past activities builds everyone can take advantage of this resource by utilizing the full text search capability of Project Collaborator. This resource enables team members to quickly find, review, learn and benefit from past and current projects related to the current challenge. Finally, a mechanism to enable everyone to learn from previous efforts.