Online Project Management

Working in any business, you might find it necessary to arrange all the ongoing work with the help of a useful as well as a convenient software, such as ConceptDraw PROJECT Server one. This online project management service is widely known as a professional and powerful web-based tool that provides a lot of benefits to the teams of professionals who want to organize their work in a modern way — by using a progressive application. Created by the specialists of CS Odessa, the ConceptDraw PROJECT Server service is the one commonly used by lots of project managers, project leaders and other people, interested in managing their work so they can achieve the needed results sooner having no problems with arranging such collaboration.

ConceptDraw PROJECT Server is known to be providing a convenient Workspace, developed by the IT specialists of CS Odessa both to small and large businesses, offering the solution that can help them manage and organize multiple projects simultaneously and efficiently. Applying an effective project management approach that is based on the online techniques can help many different organizations that are involved in different business activities carry out the large-scale projects both on budget and on time.

Having such useful tool as ConceptDraw PROJECT Server can solve lots of project managers’ problems, such as limiting the time of completing the tasks within each of the previously uploaded projects into the Workspace as well as performing the teams work in general. Going to the Scheduler page within the Workspace of ConceptDraw PROJECT Server you can always mention what days are non-working days for the employees who are involved in the projects, which are — working ones and so to limit those days in time (from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., for example).

Getting an opportunity to integrate an online project management service, such as ConceptDraw PROJECT Server, as well as a desktop software, such as ConceptDraw PROJECT, can help you get started with using the ConceptDraw PROJECT Server quicker, implementing the ongoing projects in an effective way. Being able to upload up to 100 different ConceptDraw PROJECT files to ConceptDraw PROJECT Server cloud storage allows you to share any needed with other executors providing them with all needed information by delegating the authority and so giving the access to the files the Users, Project and Resource Managers can see.

Processing all the needed project files offline and downloading them after with all the needed online changes in ConceptDraw PROJECT file format is an easy and convenient way of arranging the given documentation. Once the ConceptDraw PROJECT files are uploaded to the Workspace in ConceptDraw PROJECT Server you can always choose other people who you want to be involved in the project by adding them to the Workspace and so giving the needed roles.

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There are a few roles, which are important to be given to the right people, as being an Administrator of the Workspace, it is important to share the confidential information, such as projects’ budget and other financial information, with the right people who you can trust. Thus, assigning the roles of Project Managers of the projects, It is important to take into consideration that those, who were previously added to the Workspace as the Project Managers, can always see all the information regarding projects budget and costs.

The role of a Project Manager (PM) is quite specific as he or she, after being assigned to this role, get maximum authority within some particular project. There are a few ways for an ordinary User to get a role of a Project Manager. One of them is to get it from the Administrator who can invite this User to a certain a project as a Project Manager. Another one is when some other Project Manager invites this User to the project which he or she manages as a Project Manager. There may be a few Project Managers within one project. It can happen when some Project Manager decides to transfer his or her responsibility of managing the project to some other person. Also, User is known to be a Project Manager in the ConceptDraw PROJECT Server by default, but only in the projects that he or she uploads into a Workspace themselves.

There is a limited functionality, available to any Project Manager. Thus, they can view the projects by using the Gantt chart and so to change any task completion percentage if/when there is such need for doing it. They can also always view the full information on their projects, including costs and budget, as it was already mentioned before. Inviting other users to their projects is another competition of a Project Manager. Being able to assign the needed resources from the Workspace resource pool, any PM can use them when needed as when as track them completing the tasks within each of the previously created project, uploaded in the ConceptDraw PROJECT file format.

Same as about ConceptDraw PROJECT application, which you can download from the ConceptDraw STORE, you can always read more about other products of CS Odessa, such as ConceptDraw PROJECT Server, on the CS Odessa company’s official site: www.conceptdraw.com.