The PM Blog

Don’t settle for an incomplete "solution."

This review of TeamWork Group’s approach to providing tools for work management touches on:

• What work management is
• How TeamWork Group manages different types of work environments
• How TeamWork Group’s solutions address the needs of different work environments
• How you get started using a TeamWork solution and its apps—and how long it takes.
• What you stand to lose by using these apps

The use of an integrated project management solution that can handle a variety of different project types and complexities is an effective way to ensure that projects will not be left with a need for armies of staff to maintain complex spreadsheets and schedules. Instead the integrated system would enable fewer people to leverage their data non-redundantly and faster than is possible with the prevailing approach today.

Too often, on the scheduling "island," schedulers see their mission as to simply produce a schedule on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. They are simply auditors of the project execution; they are not integrated into the actual execution process.

But when field personnel use the schedule to help them deploy their resources and to report progress, the schedule is doing its work for the project. Ideally, field input is incorporated into the plan and the schedule that is derived from the plan. In real terms, this means that the plan and the schedule are owned by all of…  Read more »