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COMINDWORK/TAG: Processes [Alex Postnikov edited]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-10-23 14:26:09Z

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COMINDWORK/BLOG: PaaS business thriller *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-10-23 14:26:04Z

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Comindwork makes first small steps toward becoming a PaaS, Platform-as-a-Service.
In most knowledge-based companies you have a lot of data that you need to share, collaboratively change, discuss, analyze and store somewhere. It's fun, but Comindwork allows all those things in one place. I've created a small funny video to show the main possibilities of data transformation in our system. Enjoy!

As always, feel free to give these features a try and let us know what you think.
Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: External Login widget *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-10-13 17:40:15Z

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Comindwork is dedicated to become really close to customer team and clients. That's why we launch "External Login widget". It's the way to put link to your Comindwork to your company web site.

The widget may work in various ways:

Link that opens internal log-in form
Floating form that sticks to any position in browser
Small or big in-line form at specific place on your site

We encourage you to put Comindwork Login widget to your site, for your team and clients not to forget how to log in. And also this would help us to spread the word about our system. Just go to your Setup -> Get Widgets menu, and add widget HTML code to your site. You may see how this works already on our site, www.comindwork.com as a sticky link on the right edge of the browser.
Let us know what you think of this new function!
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Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Gratitude to our customers *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-10-09 10:47:34Z

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Today I want to express my gratitude for our existing customers. And to our leads, to those who are interested in Comindwork but fail to become our clients, due to different reasons. This post is for you, my beloved client :)
Thank you for being so demanding. Due to high standards that you put on the quality, we're constantly working on improvements. This makes our own business grow, drives our organization changes. When applying all the new features of Comindwork to our processes, we understand a lot about how it's possible to make things even more user-friendly, understandable and convenient. And how to make our business run in other way.
Thank you for being different. Different from our organization, and from any other client. Thus we see any tool from different perspectives, and see how it may be used for different purposes. The key thing here is customization, and this causes Comindwork to become more a platform, a PaaS solution, rather then just one more project management solution. You want to be able to change everything - and to have really great templates and presets. That's what makes us see the project management from a really broad point of view.
Thank you for your passion.and commitment. Adoption of new tools requires a lot of work and fun from both vendors and clients. When we see how people struggle with current restrictions of Comindwork. When we see high level of commitment to improve business processes. When we receive feedbacks from you, with really great suggestions and questions. We feel that we're doing something valuable.
Thank you. We're doing our best to fit our clients. Be demanding to have outstanding quality of our product, be different to cover all business automation and project management needs, be passionate for constant improvement and constant changes for the better.
Here's my deep bow for you! :)
Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Comindwork 2.5.2 ready for local trial download *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-09-17 14:28:10Z

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We've launched new version of local installation trial package, versioned Comindwork 2.5.2.

New release is identical to everything that can be found in SaaS version. Comindwork is unique by providing flexibility to choose between working on our facilities and paying subscription fee, or by installing locally on customer's servers. The platform is really simple and does not need specific hardware of software installed. Additionally, we may transfer projects from online version to local, if a customer chooses to work locally.

Besides lots of minor changes, new features include:

Working with IMAP emails
More robust and powerful "custom entities" engine
Custom tabs
Ability to provide custom domains for separate clients
LDAP integration
New administrator's possibility to mass-import users, projects and files

Moreover, Comindwork 2.5.2 is optimized to run faster and occupy less system memory.

Download and try yourself :)

Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Will subscription model survives on-demand trend? *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-09-01 17:52:05Z

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Recently, there’s a lot of talks about total cost of SaaS, and why it’s not getting so much adoption from users. We at Comindwork are both vendor of SaaS solution, and active SaaS adopters. One of our goals is to make our work completely virtual, without using any in-house infrastructure. That’s what on-demand promises to be easy. But what’s bothering, is current payment schemes.
Business model of most SaaS vendors is "monthly subscription". It has already become the most widespread model, but is it the best one? Using SaaS is not renting an application - it’s an old ASP point of view. You’re actually getting the service. And “paying for the service” is different from “paying for availability of the service”, though it may interfere. I’m not too good in legal differences, but I believe when user is inactive, one should not be billed. You’re not paying for just the availability of electricity, right?
That’s why we’ve took a look at the experience of cell phones operators. As a starter kit, they usually offer “prepaid credits” model of payment. This is really nice when using the service from time to time. Applied to SaaS, we call this model “pay-as-you-go”. Not so buzzy, but true. Customers put credits on their balance, and the balance is decreased only when you’re using the service. This is especially cost-effective solution for small companies with unstable financial and work flows. And it’s a perfect solution for times of recession, when business may need to change really quickly.
There may be different ways to define and meter “usage”, based on time or amount of consumed service. Applied to project management, this can be amount of projects, or amount of total actions performed in the environment. Yet, we’ve stopped on the simplest model: customer companies pay only for the days when service is used, i.e. someone from the company is logging in and doing anything with the data.
The “pay-as-you-go” model has shown good results for us. Those who are not ready for stable use within the whole company, choose to pay on daily basis. The amount of users of pay-as-you-go is 36% of all users, and is constantly growing. We receive 40% of all payments as credits for daily use.
The same model is now used by Amazon Web Services platform, though for small businesses it feels like a trick: if hosting a simple system on single server, you can’t stop using the server. Again, customers pay for the availability of the server, but not the effective load.
Sure thing, such approach makes it harder for SaaS vendors to get stable income. They need to make their service a part of customer’s life, make it more adoptable. And thus balance on the razor edge between micro-payments and corporate prices. And it’s a good challenge for anyone.
It’s a good question for me, whether subscription model would survive on-demand trend. Please let us know what you think of the future of on-demand business models, and especially pay-as-you-go model implemented by Comindwork.
And, our sincere congratulations on Knowledge Day!
Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Manage Projects: Quick Start for a Big Team [Alex Postnikov edited]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-08-27 15:38:23Z

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Comindwork launches 4 new features for big organizations to make adoption quicker. We want to remedy the situation when a company already has lots of people, projects and data. And it wants to start managing projects online and migrate to Comindwork. The new features are:

LDAP / Windows Active Directory integration
Batch users creation
Batch projects creation
Importing files to multiple projects at once

LDAP / Windows Active Directory integration

Comindwork integrates with LDAP to serve two basic needs: synchronize users and groups from your Windows Active Directory or any other LDAP source with Comindwork; or allow logging to Comindwork with users Windows account, without need to remember password.

Even when you use SaaS version of Comindwork, it's safe to use Windows passwords: thus you never transmit your password over the Internet in un-encoded way, and there's no possibility to forget it.

Batch users creation

Besides LDAP synchronization and Google / Yahoo / Facebook invites, Comindwork provides one more way to start collaborating instantly by adding whole company team. Company administrator may wish to create all users in a batch, simply by uploading CSV spreadsheet with users information, together with assigning people to projects. No more need to invite people separately, or bother about inviting logins and passwords.

Batch projects creation

When you start working with Comindwork as a big team, it may be important to create instantly all the projects you need. This is exactly what Batch projects creation does. A good boost for company administrator.

Upload files across projects

Some companies work primarily with files as project documentation. And when you start working in Comindwork, you'll need to put all your project files to corresponding file storages in Comindwork. Sure thing, you may upload multiple files at once using web interface. But Comindwork provides faster way to upload any amount of files, keeping the directory structure. This is achieved by uploading single .zip file that is extracted automatically by the system.

You may read more about these features in Comindwork Help.
Please let us know what you think.

Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Apprehensive about using SaaS? Pretend local! *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-08-26 17:21:38Z

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In business world, it's still a little scary for a service firm to show to clients that it uses SaaS products. Especially it's the case when organizing "extranet-like" collaboration space with the clients.

So, your team and your clients are apprehensive about using SaaS extranet? Comindwork now solves this problem by pretending to be local, on-premise software. Moreover, why not put your own brand next to Comindwork everywhere? In web interface, emails, RSS.

That's why we've added possibility for our clients to customize domain name and system name.

The magic of sub-domains is an really an underestimated thing for SaaS. You can read more in Comindwork Help about how to enable custom domain.
And let us know what you think!
Keep talking,
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Freshbooks integration *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-08-19 16:36:50Z

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Comindwork continues a series of integrations with popular web services in order to gather SaaS ecosystem for businesses. Besides integration with Google Apps, Facebook, SalesForce and many other services, we're glad to tell that Comindwork is integrated with Freshbooks, one of the leading online payment & invocing solutions.
Now it's easy to make projects in Comindwork, track time, and then bill clients and track invoices using Freshbooks. And, besides simple one-way integration from Comindwork to Freshbooks, soon there'll be a possibility to see current billing information right in Comindwork, using Tabs customization.

Feel free to try the integration - and share your thoughts!
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Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Tabs customization *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-07-17 07:49:24Z

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Customization is always good. That's what I think. Now it's even more easy to set up features in your project. You may go to Project settings and

choose which tabs/features you want to see in the project
organize tabs in the order you need

Here's the sample:

Additionally, you can reorder tabs by simply dragging and dropping them right from the menu! (By now, this works only for Firefox browser, so please do not try in Internet Explorer).

Please let us know what you think of this feature. Does it makes your team feel more comfortable?

Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Email interface improved *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-07-16 19:34:16Z

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Lots of feedback on "email-to-case" and "blog as mail conference" features made us think more about full-functional email-based interface.

So we've improved email interface a lot, and now the following features are available via email:

Sending comments to To-dos, Milestones and Tickets
Discuss wiki pages and blogs
Organize mail conference using blog. In rich-text or plain-text mode.
Create cases and reply to them
Send files to file storage, by adding mail attachments

This is how the improved Project Notifications setting look like:

All your attachments will be instantly saved. Any images will be inserted in the text. We're sure this is fun! Just reply to any notification.
More usability and customization is still to come ;)

Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: 'Emolog' moved to Labs *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-07-11 10:16:10Z

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One of our most contraversial functions, 'Emolog', is now moved to Comindwork Labs.

"Emolog" is an abbreviation of the "emotion" and "log" (just like "blog" was initially "weblog"). It's emotional management and microblogging combined.

Why people use Twitter and Facebook more actively than business apps? Because they're alive and really social, make you feel you're dealing with people. And emotions are one of the things that make us human.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, as Agile Manifesto claims.

The reason why we put Emolog in Comindwork is simple. Emotional management makes your team act as a group of real alive people. "Manage people, not tasks", we say. Thus your project becomes a true story that happens with your team. We believe emotions are key to motivations. In other words,
Action = knowledge + emotions

Why we have only limited set of emotions? The idea of "four basic emotions" is taken from Jim and Michele McCarthy's book "Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision". And it's actually "check in" protocol for anyone in the team to start every day work.

Please let us know your thoughts! You can turn Emolog "on" in Comindwork labs and tell us what you think :)

Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Log into Comindwork with Your Favorite Account [Pavlo Zahozhenko edited]

Pavlo Zahozhenko — 2009-07-07 16:05:54Z

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In this world, where you're probably registered on zillions of web services, when picking up a new one, the last thing you want is to remember yet another login/password combination. Comindwork “external login” functionality solves this problem in secure and effective manner.
Imagine that you're a fan of Google, you trust Google and use its services. Now you start using Comindwork and, naturally, would like to log into Comindwork with your Google account as well. Unfortunately for you, Comindwork isn't owned by Google, so you cannot log in with Google account right away. But with our powerful “external login” functionality you can easily associate your Comindwork account with your Google account and log into Comindwork via Google thereafter.

This is how login screen looks. Use "Sign in using..." to log in with your favorite account. Let's say you've chosen Google, it brings you to Google authentication page:

Press "Grant access". What happens next depends on whether you already associated your Google account with your Comindwork account or not. If your accounts are associated, you're simply being logged into Comindwork. If they are not associated yet, you're taken to the following page:

If you're already registered in Comindwork, fil in the login form, press "Sign in", after that your Comindwork account will be linked with your Google account and you can log into Comindwork with Google account thereafter.
If you're not yet registered, then quickly create account by accepting our "Terms of Service" in the form below. Note, that all of the form fields are filled with the data, taken from you Google account (you may edit this data before proceeding). Surely, after sign up, your account will be automatically linked with Google account, so you may always log in with your Google credentials.

Not fan of Google? No problem, you can associate you Comindwork account with one of the services you trust: currently we support Yahoo!, Facebook, and Twitter accounts, as well as OpenID.
One thing to remember is that with greater power comes greater risks: if you associated Comindwork account with external account and this external account was hacked (it happens, even mighty Google is not immune to it), then you'll need to disassociate you Comindwork and external accounts ASAP, so that at least your Comindwork account is safe. To do this, log in with your Comindwork login/password (if you've forgotten your password, use reset password functionality), go to your profile preferences and disassociate accounts.
In the next post I'm going to tell you how to link Comindwork with your corporate ActiveDirectory (LDAP) server. This is the most secure and powerful way of Comindwork authentication. This enterprise feature is available only in high-end payed plans, though.
Stay tuned :)

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Gantt Chart across projects *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-07-01 15:09:12Z

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Using Gantt charts for the project is great. But it is even more existing to see ALL projects visualized as meta-project by Gantt charts. Thus you can see progress and responsible people for top-level tasks and get quick understanding of all projects.

You can see multi-projects view and have 2 additional options: defining the level of details and the task-keepers. Just enable this feature in Comindwork Labs and see your "All->All Gantt" menu item.
Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Comindwork Labs is opened *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-07-01 14:50:43Z

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Finally, we've found a proper place for beta-features. Beforehand, we were providing these feautures "by request", that caused lots of misunderstanding for customers.

Now you may choose to enable or disable new features using Comindwork Labs. Search for the green bottle in the top-right menu, and choose which items work for you.

We're working to move lots of features to Labs mode, and the features currently available are:

Gantt Chart across projects
Tasks / Tickets Widget on Dashboard
WYSIWYG Editor Support for Tables
"Move wiki page to another project" ability

Please let us know what you think is valuable to move to "Labs". Or which features you want to add.

Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Share usage scenarios *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-06-18 14:25:45Z

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Comindwork has a lot of tools that may be used and combined in various ways. We've gathered some of the most important scenarios of Comindwork usage (sometimes they're referred as "GTDs" or "use cases") and want to share it with our customers. Current scenarios include:

How to manage projects for clients
How to support whole business / virtual office
How to organize and lead a new project
How to run a business process constantly

However, we understand that it's impossible to invent every possible trick. And we encourage you to drop us a note about your best practises of managing your processes with Comindwork.
Send them to us and get 20% discount on any hosted or local plans!
Thus we'll learn your needs better and streamline our efforts in best possible way.
Just drop us a note :)
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Download Comindwork and install locally for free *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-06-18 13:25:32Z

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We understand that SaaS is not appropriate for some of the companies. For those who want more control over data, quicker response time, have company restrictions on "external" software etc.

From now on, we propose to

Download free Comindwork local trial for 21 day
Follow easy installation process
See how Comindwork serves your needs
Upgrade at any moment to the plan that fits your need

You can also easily migrate your data from online version to local if needed, or migrate from legacy software you're using now.
Sure thing, in this case Comindwork stops being a "service", but becomes a "software". But our brilliant support stays the same! :)
Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Tasks widget on dashboard - Beta *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-06-15 09:46:14Z

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Hello and thanks for staying tuned with Comindwork!
Following the numerous requests for this functionality, we've added ability to see Tasks or Tickets on project dashboard, in form of a widget. You may see it in action on Demo project.
This functionality is in beta mode, and we may enable it upon request. We have a lot of possible ways to extend it, thus need your feedback: what is required in your use case. For instance,

Custom filters: my tasks, overdue tasks, assigned etc
Which data should be shown
Ability to save current position
Do you require global list of tasks or tickets?

Please let us know if you want to try it and tell us how the functionality can be extended to fit your needs.
Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Comindwork Dream in a Mind Map *new [Admin Adminovich created]

Admin Adminovich — 2009-06-07 13:55:08Z

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We're still searching for a great Mind Mapping tool to be integrated with Comindwork. The only real requirement is a web-based viewer capable of interactions: collapsing/folder nodes, clicking on the links etc.
This time I've tested XMind, and created "Ideal Enterprise Software" mind map. Both to convert thoughts to visual form, to share with others, and to test XMind. Well, here's the result ;)

If you use a great mind mapping software, please let us know. As well as "what you think of our ideals" :)
Keep talking!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Personalize login screen with company content *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-06-01 15:17:35Z

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Sometimes a company needs to open up lot of information about ongoing work.
You can inform your clients, or whole outer world about your actions by using "open area" and by customizing Comindwork login screen.

To do this, perform the next steps:

1. Create an "open" project

Create a new project, go to its Settings->Set permissions menu and select the proper option:

2. Create an open Wiki page

When creating a new Wiki page, select "Read" permissions for a page.

3. Enable the page to be shown on Login Screen

Go to Account & Settings -> Configure open pages menu and choose the page you've created as your custom login screen info:

Oh, and the last one thing. You may open your company blog in same open project. Just check the box on the upper screen to allow this.

Happy collaborating! :)

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Using Comindwork as simpliest CRM + PM system *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-06-01 13:31:55Z

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Some of our customers use Comindwork in a very interesting manner that I want to share.

The scheme applies to companies where to find a new client is relatively easy comparing to satisfying one's needs. For the purpose of all-in-one management, Comindwork may be used as both simpliest CRM and project management solution.

1. Organizing CRM process

First you need to create a space for your sales people to store their Cases. This should be a separate "project" in Comindwork, with option to notify all participants (this can be found at Project -> Settings ->Setup email notifications menu).

The next step is to setup an internal rule to create a separate Case for each new client request. The fields are working as following:

Subject that identifies client. This can be company name or client full name.
Due date is the time for the next obligatory step

If you get the first contact with client by email, you may use email-to-case functionality to create new cases and attach emails to a case quickly.

2. Leading a client from the beginning to the end

All sales communications with client should be kept in one place, visible for every other sales person and to upper management. That's why it's important to keep transparency of all sales actions, both for personal and team efficiency.

When a sales person needs a set of actions to be done for client, one can make a to-do list attached to a case:

You'll never forget about it, as your to-dos are seen on dashboard, arrive to your mailbox daily and disturb management as well.

TIP: When using to-dos that should be done at specific moment of time, you may prefix a todo with specific time.

3. Yet another advanced usage

For most structuredness and efficiency, sales department manager may create a specific sales process, a custom workflow.

For instance, we add additional fields Next Action, Importance and SLA. The form will be like this:

And you can always edit all your leads right from the list:

Good luck! And please let us know what you think.

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Fast File Search [Pavlo Zahozhenko edited]

Pavlo Zahozhenko — 2009-05-11 19:02:15Z

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The majority of corporate information (up to 80%) is stored within documents. This information is usually unstructured and it is quite a task to find something there. This is one of the reasons why information retrieval takes so much time for an average knowledge worker.
With Comindwork you may forget about this mess and have all your corporate data at your fingertips! We enhanced our search feature so that files are now also being indexed and searched. This applies to doc, docx, pdf, xls, xslx, ppt, pptx, txt, xml and a few other file formats. So, upload you documents, they will be automatically indexed and you may search within their contents. Surely, you'll search within other entities too (blogs, to-dos, wiki pages, milestones etc), unless you specify it in advanced options:

If you already have some files on our filesystem, they are already indexed too.
Note that our file search is very fast. Searches usually take less than a second. This is possible cause we utilize powerful Lucene search engine for our search (the same search engine that powers Wikipedia).
We also search by image name and show preview thumbnail in search results:

Happy file searching!

COMINDWORK/BLOG: РИФ+КИБ: Enterprise 2.0. Социальная компания *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-04-22 18:39:24Z

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Привет!
На Российском Интернет-Форуме делаю доклад "Социальная компания - вызов во всем. Кроме технологий".
Кто будет на РИФ, приходите на секцию, будет интересно! :-)
23 апреля, РИФ+КИБ, секция "8.2. Enterprise 2.0".
И еще - до 25-го апреля можно использовать купон RIF2009 для получения 30% скидки при оплате Comindwork

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Project Management Certifications [Arturas Kvederis edited]

Arturas Kvederis — 2009-03-27 12:52:10Z

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You think that you are qualified enough in project management to get certified? It does not matter whether you have two or five years experience in project management, you will need to study for your certification exams, because different certifications require different level and sometimes areas of knowledge in project management. You can choose from these project management certification programs:

PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification - certification offered by the Project Management Institute. More info at http://www.pmi.org
CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) - another certification offered by Project Management Institute, targeted for entry-level project managers, project team members and graduate students studying project management. More info at http://www.pmi.org
CompTIA Project+ Certification - globally recognized project management certification from Computing Technology Industry Association. More info at http://certification.comptia.org/project/
APMC (Advanced Project Management Certification) - another project management certification that helps to learn how to control complex project management issues. More information can be found at http://www.iil.com/apmc/
MPM (Master Project Manager), CIPM (Certified International Project Manager), PME (Project Manager E-Business) - quality project management certifications offered by AAPM (American Academy of Project Management). See http://www.projectmanagementcertification.org/ for details.
CPM (Certified Project Manager) - certification by IAPPM (International Association of Project and Program Management) that focuses on practical knowledge and content. Detailed description can found at http://www.iappm.org/why_cpm.htm
Global,IT, Construction and Healthcare PMP certifications from 4PM

Of course these are not all of the certifications available, but I believe these are the best. You might wonder which of these program is the best. Well I am afraid I can't answer that question, only a person that passed all these certifications could compare them and provide us with a trustworthy answer. What do you think is the best project management certification out there?

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Using Comindwork as an email helpdesk *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-03-19 15:05:09Z

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It's easy to configure Comindwork as a ticket helpdesk.

Imagine you want all your tickets for company ACMECORP , project HELPDESK to be created via email. And you want to receive tickets sent to email helpdesk@yourcompany.com. To accomplish this, follow the next steps:

Configure your mail server (MS Exchange or whatever) to handle helpdesk@yourcompany.com emails
Create account in Comindwork with same email, helpdesk@yourcompany.com. And give this account the access to HELPDESK project.
Create a rule to forward emails receieved by helpdesk@ to cmw+acmecorp+helpdesk@comindwork.com . You should use forward rule if you want to receive emails from any people, or redirect rule to keep "from" field, thus letting only registered users to use helpdesk.

That's it! Please drop your note, whether this use case seems useful for you, or not.

Keep collaborating!
Alex

COMINDWORK/BLOG: New Secure Web Service API [Alex Postnikov edited]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-03-06 12:42:10Z

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Handling a bunch of requests from customers, we've recently opened secure API for direct access to data.
Here I describe technical issues.
Web service is avaiable at http://my.comindwork.com/storageservice.asmx (see complete WSDL). You can replace 'my.comindwork' with your personal company name, 'yourcompany.comindwork' anytime.
What it does? Basic version, available to Workgroup plan and up, includes only data access, no modification. It is 'LoadDataTable' function:

Now our friends from FlexMonster.com wrote a simple 1-minute Flex application to connect to this service, and fill data grid with project list:

Live Flash Application

And here's the result. Live working application (requires Flash-9) shows the list of project visible to FlashAdmin (You may browse the system as FlashAdmin - go to demo login at http://demo.comindwork.com)

Happy collaborating,
and be open!

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Blog as email conference *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-03-04 13:07:30Z

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The main initial task of project manager is to enable communications between project participants, give them a platform for high-speed information flow. And what may be more simple and fast then old good email?
That's why Comindwork adds ability to use project blog as mail conference (or mail-list). All emails sent by a project participant to the specific email address will be automatically sent to all project team. Additionally, these messages will be piled up as blog posts or comments to posts. Well-known software for email conference is Google Groups.

How to enable «email conference» functionality?

Go to Project Setttings > Setup Notifications, and enable the corresponding checkbox:

How to send email to project conference?

Consider you have project PROJ done for company COMP. In this case, the address for emailing would be cmw+blog+COMP+PROJ@comindwork.com:

This very mail appears in project blog, that's accessible via web interface:

What are specific rules for email conference?

All emails are re-sent to whole project team. That's why the format of emails is plain-text, UTF-8 encoding. To be sure everyone is able to read the message. If someone sends HTML message, it's automatically converted to plain text.
When answering, write your reply at the beginning of the letter. Do not delete original message, it contains system information to connect your reply to the correct blog post.
Reply by quoting previous email
At the end of emal, put «///////» mark. It says to the system (and to participants) that it's the end of your message.
Reply from the same address that is registered in Comindwork.
Attached files will be put to file storage. Instead of the very files, email that is sent out to project team would include links to files.

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Блог как почтовая конференция *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-03-04 12:31:13Z

Alex Postnikov created:
Основная задача менеджера проекта – завязать общение участников проекта, дать простую площадку для скоростных коммуникаций. А что может быть проще, чем электронная почта, к которой все привыкли?
Поэтому в Comindwork добавлена возможность использовать блог проекта как почтовую конференцию (иначе называется «рассылка», или «мэйл-лист»). Все письма, посланные каким-либо участником проекта на специальный адрес, будут отсылаться всем остальным участникам. И, дополнительно, будут «складироваться» в виде постов в блог проекта, или комментариев к нему. Известные примеры почтовых конференций - это, например, Google Groups.

Как включить функцию «почтовая конференция»?

Зайдите в Настройки проекта > Настройка оповещений, и включите соответствующую галочку:

Как послать письмо в почтовую конференцию?

Например, у вас есть проект PROJ в компании COMP. Тогда адрес, на который надо слать письма, будет cmw+blog+COMP+PROJ@comindwork.com:

Это же письмо появится в блоге проекта, и будет доступно через веб-интерфейс:

Какие правила конференции?

Все письма рассылаются всей команде проекта. Поэтому формат писем – plain-text, кодировка UTF-8. Для того, чтобы точно могли прочитать все. Если кто-либо пошлет письмо в формате HTML, оно будет автоматически переведено в plain-text.
Ответ писать в начале письма. При ответе на письмо, не удаляйте оригинальный текст сообщения. В нем содержится системная информация, необходимая, чтобы письмо стало комментарием к нужному посту.
Отвечайте, давая ответы на цитаты.
В конце своего письма, после подписи ставить знак «///////». Он означает, что больше ничего не написано, и не надо лезть в цитирование искать продолжение. Таким образом система сможет корректно распознать, где заканчивается ваше письмо.
Отвечайте с того адреса, который зарегистрирован в Comindwork.
Вложенные файлы (аттачменты) будут сохранены в хранилище файлов проекта. Вместо самих файлов по почте будут высланы ссылки на файлы.

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Project Management System Evolution *new [Arturas Kvederis created]

Arturas Kvederis — 2009-03-03 10:50:13Z

Arturas Kvederis created:
Project management system implementation in an organization in most of the cases is done on phases. There are a couple different “maturity” models in organization. I’d like to introduce you to a three phase model by .
First Phase: Ad hoc. This phase usually starts when some employee or a department suggests in using some basic project management techniques to get particular tasks done. There can be lots of reasons for that, like for example a need to follow strict deadlines, or a need for strict resource allocation etc. Usually in this phase companies use simple organizational schedules and tasks, higher management has weak control over the resources. Often this results in project failure. In most of the cases this happens because of ineffective coordination (or if there is no coordination at all) between the project and resources. Basically every company needs to go through this and this process is inevitable if company wants to survive.
Second Phase: formal adaptation. Depending on the size of the organization, the first phase can take from 2 to 4 years. In this phase it becomes clear, that you need to have basic project management knowledge on every level of organization. Project management trainings become a common practice, managers know that multiple projects are done at once and realize the importance of project resource allocations. Managers are concentrating on intermediate project results, higher management is interested increasing project management techniques and project quality control becomes a necessity. Clients and suppliers are actively involved; managers get more control over projects. Usually there is a department or a person responsible for the organizational structure, but it is hard to understand the connection between strategic planning and projects.
Third phase: project orientated organization. Concentration is on the long term prospects. And now higher management has an important role in determining organization strategy, developing balanced projects portfolio and setting project priorities. Priority projects are included into the strategic plan, project management becomes a part of organizations’ culture. Everyone works as a team, project resources are allocated according to the priorities. Project completion includes project audit, spent time evaluation, expenses, project and technical work done.
All these three phases are passed separately depending on the type and size of an organization. For example some big organizations could be compared with a mosaic, where different departments at the same time are on different phases. Every project based organization (software development, marketing, consulting, construction) are constantly trying to improve their project management techniques and choosing the right project management software for your organization might have a great impact.

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Gantt charts and MS Project integration features *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-02-11 20:11:47Z

Alex Postnikov created:
Comindwork launches new set of enterprise-level features: Gantt chart visualization and Microsoft Project import.
A project schedule should be visualized in Gantt diagram for different purposes:

Tell the team what's the project breakdown structure
Visualize project progress for clients and external stakeholders
Track budget and task progress
Enable simpliest workload and resource management.

Read-only view

Basic read-only view is visible for whole project team. Any team member is only able to set progress for a task one's assigned to.

When a task progress is updated, project manager gets a notification. Remember? You're still collaborating, not working alone.

Manager view

Manager is able to create, modify and schedule tasks, set resources and budget. Either task-by-task

, or using he powerful inline-editor for Gantt chart. Online editor gives an easy way to change schedule without using external tools like MS Project:

Microsoft Project synchronization

Web-based tools still can't replace the offline Gantt creation tools. We allow Microsoft Project files (MPP, MPX) to be seamlessly imported into Comindwork project. At any moment you may re-upload plan file or export current plan from Comindwork to MPX file for better analysis or resource management.

Planning vs Execution

Though having strict project plan, any team member is still able to create their own activities, such as to-do lists or cases. And connect them to a goal in project hierarchy. In such a way we combine the flexibility of agile collaboration with managed and defined levels of project management.

Please let us know what you think of such integration of agile and heavy project management tools.
Happy collaboration!

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Продвинутое форматирование Wiki [George Thorn edited]

George Thorn — 2009-01-26 21:36:18Z

George Thorn edited:

Идеология

Хотя есть, наверное, сотни разных подходов к форматированию Вики: традиционные вики-системы, корпоративные вики - мы сфокусировались на использовании наиболее распространенного формата MediaWiki, который, в частности, используется на Википедии.
Знание синтаксиса Вики - это хороший плюс при использовании Comindwork, так как в системе не везде показывается визуальный редактор. Например, нет для него места в комментариях к блогу или к документу. Но иногда ведь нужно вставить картинку или ссылку, или просто улучшить внешний вид текста.
Приведем другой пример полезности режима редактирования вики-разметки. Допустим, понадобилось создать список, состоящий из множества почти одинаковых ссылок. В визуальном редакторе придется вставлять каждую ссылку по отдельности через диалоговое окно. Вместо этого можно переключить редактор в режим вики-разметки, скопировать код ссылки, который послужит шаблоном, в буфер обмена, вставить этот код нужное количество раз, а затем во вставленное внести необходимые мелкие исправления.

Общие правила

MediaWiki - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
1. В отличие от MediaWiki вы в Comindwork можете также использовать HTML, нет никаких ограничений.
2. В MediaWiki абзацы отделяются "двойным переносом строк", в Comindwork абзац создается по единичному переносу

Основные стили

Строчные стили

Название	Пример	Код
Жирный	bold	'''bold'''
Наклонный	italic	''italic''
Подчеркивание	underlined	__underlined__
Помните, что вы можете вводить HTML-тэги, например 'sub' или 'strike'

Заголовки

Название	Пример	Код
Заголовок 1	Head 1	= Head 1 =
Заголовок 2	Head 2	== Head 2 ==
Заголовок 3	Head 3	=== Head 3 ===
Заголовок 4	Head 4	==== Head 4 ====
Заголовок 5	Head 5	===== Head 5 =====

Форматирование абзацев: списки и отступы

Название	Пример	Код
Цитата	TEXT	<blockquote>TEXT</blockquote>
Отступ	ident	начните строку с символа(ов) ":"
Нумерованный список	Number1 Number1	# Number 1 ## Number 1
Ненумерованный список	Number1 Number2	* Number 1 ** Number 2

Ссылки

Название	Пример	Код
Документ в проекте	COMINDWORK/Help	[[COMINDWORK/Help]]
Документ в проекте, с измененным текстом ссылки	Специальное Имя	[[COMINDWORK/Help\|Специальное Имя]]
Ссылка на документ без указания проекта	Help	[[!COMINDWORK/Help]]
Задачи	COMINDWORK/CASE1	[[ProjectAlias/CASE1]]
Внешние страницы	http://www.comindwork.com	[http://www.comindwork.com]
Внешние страницы, с измененным текстом ссылки	Comindwork	[http://www.comindwork.com Comindwork]
Файлы	COMINDWORK/FILE/Help.pdf	[[COMINDWORK/FILE/Help.pdf]]

Красный цвет ссылок означает, что ссылка ведет на несуществующую страницу, файл, задачу и т.д.

Вставки и специфичные возможности

Вставка картинок

Чтобы вставить картинку в текст,

залейте ее в файловое хранилище
используйте {{\\Path/To/YourImage.jpg}} (заметьте два символа \ перед началом пути). Пример:

Подсказка: если вы добавили файл с пробелами в имени, пожалуйста, в ссылке на него замените пробел на %20

Вставка страниц

Вставка страниц это мощный механизм для создания навигации в страницах проекта. Например, когда вы струкурируете требования, вы можете, кроме использования меток, добавить вверху страницы "управляющий" блок.
Чтобы вставить другую страницу или документ:

используйте {{PROJECT/PAGENAME}}
Подсказка: Чтобы спрятать часть страницы при вставке, используйте тэг

<noinclude> этот текст будет спрятан </noinclude>

Выключение Wiki-форматирования

Вы можете захотеть выключить форматирование Вики для какой-либо части текста. Вы можете это сделать таким вот образом:

<nowiki>Тут какой-то странный текст</nowiki>

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Wiki Advanced Formatting [George Thorn edited]

George Thorn — 2009-01-26 21:34:14Z

George Thorn edited:

Ideology

Although there are tons of different wiki formatting approaches (traditional wikis, various enterprise systems etc), we focused on use the most widespread formatting provided by MediaWiki and adopted by the most popular wiki-based resource Wikipedia.
Knowing Wiki syntax is a good plus, as we don't show rich editor at any wiki text box, like blog comments or wiki page comments. But sometimes you may want to enter a link in comment or enhance your formatting.

General rules

MediaWiki - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
1. Unlike MediaWiki you can use HTML as well in Comindwork Wiki, no limitations are applied.
2. MediaWiki has paragraphs created by "double enter", Comindwork also creates paragraph for "single enter".

Main Styles

Inline styles

Name	Sample	Code
Bold	bold	'''bold'''
Italic	italic	''italic''
Underlined	underlined	__underlined__
Remember you may enter pure HTML tags, like 'sub' or 'strike'

Headings 1-5

Name	Sample	Code
Heading 1	Head 1	= Head 1 =
Heading 2	Head 2	== Head 2 ==
Heading 3	Head 3	=== Head 3 ===
Heading 4	Head 4	==== Head 4 ====
Heading 5	Head 5	===== Head 5 =====

Paragraph-formatting: Lists and Indent

Name	Sample	Code
Quote	TEXT	<blockquote>TEXT</blockquote>
Identation	:ident	start new lines with ":" sign
Numbered list	Number1 Number1	# Number 1 ## Number 1
Unnumbered list	Number1 Number2	* Number 1 ** Number 2

Links

Name	Sample	Code
Project Page	COMINDWORK/Help	[[COMINDWORK/Help]]
Project Page with custom title	Custom Title	[[COMINDWORK/Help\|Custom Title]]
Project page without project name	Help	[[!COMINDWORK/Help]]
Cases	COMINDWORK/CASE1	[[ProjectAlias/CASE1]]
External pages	http://www.comindwork.com	[http://www.comindwork.com]
External pages with custom title	Comindwork	[http://www.comindwork.com Comindwork]
Files on filesystem	COMINDWORK/FILE/Comindwork.pdf	[[COMINDWORK/FILE/Comindwork.pdf]]

Please note that red color means link to not-existing page, case, file, etc.

Includes and special issues

Including images

To insert an image on a page

upload it to filesystem
use {{\\Path/To/YourImage.jpg}} syntax (note the 2 slashes before actual location). Example:

TIP: if you've uploaded file with spaces in name, please refer to it, replacing spaces with %20

Including pages

Including pages is a powerful mechanism for creating TOC-pages or navigation snippets to other pages. For example, when structuring project requirements, you may want to put navigation to to the top of every requirements-related page.
To insert an page:

use {{PROJECT/PAGENAME}}
TIP: If you're referring to a page that starts with user/default/ you may use {{:PAGENAME}}
TIP: To hide a part of the page when including, use

<noinclude> this text will be hidden </noinclude>

Switching off Wiki formatting

You may need to switch off Wiki formatting for some block of text. You can do it using the following syntax:

<nowiki>Strange code is here</nowiki>

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Enterprise 2.0 as a paradigm shift [Alex Postnikov edited]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-01-21 14:19:03Z

Alex Postnikov edited:
I consider myself a Web 2.0 developer. And sometimes I have a question, what's that below the buzz of "Web 2.0", what is the essence of this phenomenon. For me, that's mostly about people, not only technology. It's a huge paradigm shift.

Started with Internet itself, we now see prosuming, total customization and user-generated content everywhere. The reason why this happens, is increasing world complexity:

Roles of consumer and producer mixed up
A person can't produce great things if his/her work isn't fun

Prosuming and good will for creativity are the keys to Web 2.0 thinking. To People 2.0. I stress on the point that it's new generation of people who really use Web 2.0 tools. People with different motivations and different qualities.

First, new tools conquered leisure and social part of people interactions. But for this new generation of people, work and life are the same, thus 2.0-way of thinking came to business. And when applied to business, to management, to making money, the new paradigm met the old one. Applied to business, "prosuming" means mix of manager and worker roles, not only consumer and producer.

That's the current situation with "Enterprise 2.0". Tools do not change people, or change them too slowly. Alas, any tool may be used by people of both paradigms. In business, you can't use a tool separately from your team.

That's the point where anyone defends his own beliefs and own ways of work.

The most useful GTD may be used either to enable productivity, or to control more. There's no way to tell managers how they should use certain tools. They always use them in the best possible way: the way they think. Track time? Remind about upcoming tasks? Micro-blogging? Anything looses its original meaning. And that's the reason why there're so few successful implementations of "Enterprise 2.0". It's not about technology, it's about people.

Yet, "Enterprise 2.0" gradually gains momentum in people minds. And the situation changes for better. I'd even take all my courage to look a bit into the future. I'm sure, along with current 'collaboration' services we'll see a new area appearing. I would call this "collaborative prosuming", a new way to create things in teams. These tools, sure thing, require one more paradigm shift to happen ;)

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Going even more mobile with email interface *new [Alex Postnikov created]

Alex Postnikov — 2009-01-19 19:21:57Z

Alex Postnikov created:
Comindwork has one more great usability feature.

Now you may work with cases & files via email interface. The feature that makes you work quicker and be more mobile.

You can

Add new cases and assign to participants
Reply to existing cases, and attach files into your reply
Mass-upload files to folders

Everything accessible from your email client, whether you have browser at hand, or not.

You may even organize client support or ITSM service using case-by-email: users should not be registered to send emails.

Read more about cases-by-email feature.

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Comindwork Wiki [Arturas Kvederis edited]

Arturas Kvederis — 2008-12-08 09:36:04Z

Arturas Kvederis edited:
First of all, a little bit history :), so what is wiki? Wiki.org defines wiki as "the simplest online database that could possibly work.", partially inspired by Apple's HyperCard programming environment, the first wiki software was created in 1995 by Ward Cunningham and named after wiki-wiki (it means quick ''''in Hawaiian).' Basically wikis are web pages that anyone can create or edit (usually a person needs to have some permissions). Today the most popular use of wiki is Wikipedia - the largest, free and quaity online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by volunteers (as of March 2008, Wikipedia has over 10 million articles in 253 languages, comprising a combined total of over 1.74 billion words for all Wikipedias).
I think that if you ever participated on a project that was using wiki, it will be hard not to use it anymore, though it's not ideal of course, it has it's cons and pros.
Advantages of using a wiki:

Your central storage system - you can save everything your need, and all the document changes are saved as well
The ease of use and the ease of linking - this makes your knowledge management and sharing an easier task
It's online, constant awareness - available anywhere where you have an internet connection; as soon as you update the wiki page, everyone, everywhere in the organization, has access to the latest information
Instant team collaboration - you don't need to send multiple emails with document updates or goal changes to the team.
Ideal for distributed teams

Disadvantages of using a wiki:
'* If projects are big, and a lot of people are contributing it gets messy

Security - sometimes one password is used for workgroups, it makes easier to hack the online ducuments
It's harder for non tech-savvies to get used to wiki syntax
For some wikis installation and backups are confusing
You need some maintenance in order to avoid "idea soup"

I personally think that you need wiki, and as you see advantages are more valuable, but it's up to you to decide. If you are a mad scientist, working alone, making the new secret design, maybe you don't need a wiki :), if you are not, take a quick look at some of wiki features that Comindwork has to offer:

Talk pages - this extremely useful for distributed teams, because manager and team can discuss documents, project tasks and any other pages created in Comindwork
WYSIWYG editing
Online document management - insert into pages, tasks any documents related to the project: PDFs, spreadsheets, word documents, slide shows; anything related to the project, don't need to keep it on your hard drive
RSS feeds - you get instantly informed as changes are made. Effective information management and sharing is critical in today's crazy technology world
Categories and tagging - advanced wiki features for content linking and tagging to keep team memory organized
Versions - history comparison charts lets you review the changes made to the wiki page, who mage the changes and when exactly did it happen
Subsection editing - Comindwork wiki allows editing of a subsection of a page (as identified by its header), this is very useful when editing pages with large amount of information and sections.
Access - only registered project users can access the documents (roles-based permissions for workflows and wiki pages)
Backups are made automatically
Free and no installation needed - just register for a free account

Want to manage your information more effectively? Then come and join Comindwork Project Management Software, completely free!

COMINDWORK/BLOG: Cреды управления проектами в бизнесе [Alex Postnikov edited]

Alex Postnikov — 2008-12-06 12:02:41Z

Alex Postnikov edited:
Меня долго занимал один вопрос. Почему внедрение средств управления проектов в России сложнее, чем на западе? Недавно я понял, что причина в неструктурированности понятия проектной организации, в отличие от других видов компаний.

Чтобы понять роль инструментов «ведения проектов» и «сотрудничества в проектах» (collaboration tools) достаточно понять место проекта в организации. Как выглядит идеальная структура проектно-ориентированной организации?

Структура проектной организации

Когда основным процессом производства являются проекты, то каждый проект, как живой организм, включен в более широкий контекст компании. В этом «широком» контексте можно выделить:

CRM и продажи
Финансовая поддержка проектов
Юридическая поддержка проектов
HR, служба персонала
Ведение «рабочей среды», environment. То, чем занимается офис-менеджер
IT-служба, основная цель которой в данном случае - продуктивность проектов.
Общение с подрядчиками, аутсорсинг, фрилансеры
Общение с клиентами

Естественно, каждая компания в свою очередь включена в намного больший контекст государства, рынков и других элементов. Мы их не будем рассматривать.

Проект - это команда

Итак, внутренняя структура проекта - это его команда. Команда состоит из

Экспертов
Поддерживающего персонала
Менеджера проекта

Эксперты - это основная движущая сила проекта. Собственно, те, которые вкладывают свои знания и усилия для создания продукта. Это могут быть программисты, архитекторы, маркетологи, консультанты, в зависимости от отрасли бизнеса.

Поддерживающий персонал это те люди, которые делают всю работу, без которой основной продукт «экспертов» нельзя назвать товаром и продать. В разработке ПО, например, это тестировщики или технические писатели.

В организациях с матричной структурой как эксперты, так и поддерживающий персонал зачастую заняты, кроме конкретных проектов еще и в «поддерживающей» деятельности бизнеса. То есть участвуют и в проектах, и в операционной деятельности всей компании.

Так каково же место систем поддержки проектного процесса? Это

взаимодействия «внутреннего» круга проекта между собой
управление проектом
минимально необходимые взаимодействия с «внешним» кругом

Наиболее важны отношения с клиентом и подрядчиками, вплоть до включения их в команду проекта (в случае customer on-side или фриланса). Поэтому соединения с этими двумя «внешними» секторами обычно становятся частью самого проекта.

Цели внедрения отдельной системы для ведения проектов очевидны. Это максимальное использование потенциала команды и фокусирование их на одной цели. Увеличение производительности, скорости и качества проектов. За счет использования как инструментов общения, так и методологий управления проектами.

Сложности в голове

Возвращаясь к основному вопросу. В чем же сложность внедрения? Сложность в том, что зачастую в системы ведения проектов стараются «впихнуть» и обслуживание внешнего круга, то есть задачи любого из поддерживающих направлений. Это естественно, ведь стандарты автоматизации существуют на данный момент только для финансов, и частично для CRM / продаж. Таким образом, инструменты ведения проектов используются для процессов не внутри проектов.

Какие именно «мостики» должны соединять систему ведения проектов, и внешние службы? Обычно это соединение или в форме «контактов» от отдела продаж, или «инцидентов» для офис-менеджера, или «отчетов» для финансового отдела и HR.

Это возможно, но разделение «проекты - службы» должно быть понятно хотя бы руководителем при решении о внедрении системы. И тогда можно ответить на вопрос, что же именно стоит автоматизировать в первую очередь. И как все связать в интегрированную среду.

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