Whether planning an event, organizing a team project or coordinating product development activities, it is a challenge to effectively collaborate with team members, share tasks and meet key milestones. What is lacking is an easy way for both individuals and teams to create, share, view and manage tasks in the context of a project. With 46% of projects being over budget and 71% delivered late, the traditional approach to project management is outdated. A top down project management approach requires an upfront definition of scope, tasks, resources, phases, milestones, and dependencies. This approach, while critical to the success of larger projects, is often more work than necessary for smaller team-based projects.

In addition, project management applications are often disconnected from tasks and require frequent manual project status updates which then quickly become out of date. Regardless of size or industry, all companies need to keep track of tasks, collaborate with others and meet deadlines. With a team-based project planning approach, stakeholders can share responsibility, improve efficiency and collaborate in real-time with up-to-date data from anywhere. Ultimately, the entire team needs to work together more effectively and track tasks without a heavy, top-down project management methodology.

A team-based approach is highly scalable and effective in managing simple or complex projects. With over-all management resting with the team rather than a single individual, projects operate more efficiently as team members make adjustments to tasks and delivery dates as the project progresses.

Teams need a comprehensive, team-based tool for efficient project planning, execution and monitoring – all in one place. Eliminating the chaos, and enabling team members to individually define tasks and task duration, helps eliminate the need for a central project manager. When a collection of tasks needs to be in context of a project, the entire team can define the project scope and schedule. This way, project members are always up-to-date and best able to contribute to the project’s success.  

3DEXPERIENCE Project Planner on the cloud allows you to do the right things, at the right time with executable plans created with comprehensive project planning:

Team members can manage tasks as needed with the ability to roll them into a project for greater visibility. This scalable way of working puts focus on critical aspects of projects of any size and enables real-time insights that allow for the on-time completion of team-based projects. Being able to drag and drop deliverables into associated project tasks allows quick assessment, viewing and approval without the need to search. In addition, projects can be created automatically with no manual actions.  

Project Planner includes an innovative planning engine that helps optimize project scheduling by accounting for resource constraints and individual task durations. For example, the planning engine can automatically compress tasks according to user-defined tolerances to best meet key milestones.

Project planner is intuitive and easy to learn. Team members can efficiently create tasks, assign chat contexts, chat with other members, drag and drop attachments, or view real-time dashboards to identify critical tasks ― across cloud, in-app and mobile environments.

Watch the webinar to learn how everyone on a team, no matter where they are located can easily collaborate using team-based planning. (10 min)