Sunday, August 7, 2011

Effective status reporting

In projects large or small, a plan is made, tasks are defined and assigned. This is the easy part, what is hard to have a pulse on the project progress at all time whiteout taking too much time and resources and annoying the heck out of team members by time consuming and most often unproductive meetings. So what is the solution? I think we have found a great solution in online project collaboration software by http://www.binfire.com. The tools is simple but very powerful. It is designed around a secure tweet like tool resident in the application. Each project member reports his or her status everyday. What is unique here is that there is only 140 characters for this reporting. The user needs to be brief and to the point. What he did today, what he will do tomorrow and if he is  facing any issues. That is all. Every tweet and comment is visible to all, so it encourages collaboration and teamwork. Everybody can comment and all this happens in real time.

PM Coach
Project Management Program

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