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Do online project management solutions help our practices?

Do online project management solutions help our practices?. Sandra Glick Stuart Gamm CriticalEdge Group, Inc. Goals for this session. Provide an example of how one VAR organization is solving their project management challenges

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Do online project management solutions help our practices?

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  1. Do online project management solutions help our practices? Sandra Glick Stuart Gamm CriticalEdge Group, Inc.

  2. Goals for this session • Provide an example of how one VAR organization is solving their project management challenges • To enable the attendees to share ideas of tools that have helped to improve their project management in their organizations

  3. Poll Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

  4. Poll • What project management tools are you using right now? • What is working? • What is not working?

  5. Our Problem • Tools Used: • MS Project • Excel • Excel/SharePoint • Issues: • Communicating due dates and assignments • To Staff • To Customers • To Partners • Updates to the plans

  6. What we needed • Easy to use • Collaboration • Automatic assignment of tasks to team members • Improved project management • Outlook integration

  7. Products Available • Products Researched • Wrike • Smartsheet • Other products available on market • Too many to list

  8. Determine what you need and “would like”

  9. How to find the right program • http://project-management-software.findthebest.com/saved_search/Top-Online-Project-Management • Use search engines for online project management • Recommendations • A business partner recommended WRIKE as easy to use and “fun”

  10. Why we selected WRIKE • Highly recommended by similar type organization • Looked easy to use • Had basic functionality that we needed • Was a good first step – maybe not a permanent solution

  11. Features we liked • Microsoft type interface (Folders) • Collaboration with our customers • Activity stream • Gant Chart • Imports/Exports • Outlook email integration – requirement for us • Fast implementation

  12. WRIKE DEMO • Dashboard • Folders • Users • Imports • Assignment of tasks • Updates to tasks and projects • Gant Chart • Reporting

  13. Thank you for attending • My contact information: Sandra Glick CriticalEdge Group, Inc. sandra.glick@criticaledgegroup.com

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