Under the attack of novel coronavirus pneumonia, it seems that overnight, most enterprises in China have accepted the concept of online office and cloud collaboration. Among them, the demand for online project collaboration increased rapidly. According to media survey reports, online project management tools were used for 5.89 hours per day on average during the home-working period, making them the Top 5 hottest SaaS applications for telecommuting during the pandemic.
Today, more and more enterprises are realizing the necessity and importance of online project management, and moving project work to the cloud is no longer a fad, but a hard requirement. Choosing a suitable cloud project management tool becomes the first step of enterprise online project development.
Previously, the online office of all employees in the enterprise mainly focuses on establishing regular and regular work schedules for employees. Most of the online office software used only completes the internal management business of the enterprise mainly focusing on work plan, document coordination and attendance, which is far from enough in the execution of project work. For example: Task decomposition, schedule management, cost control, project tracking and so on are difficult to meet the needs of enterprise project management.
CORNERSTONE’s online project management software, by contrast, is based on online work and cloud-based collaboration to help companies easily solve project management problems, monitor project progress online in real time, and improve project management efficiency.
CORNERSTONE is recommended for the following reasons:
I. In the project planning stage, specific tracking is carried out through task decomposition to control the project progress in real time
Task management is essential for online project collaboration to remain effective.
First, we can use CORNERSTONE’s built-in templates to complete a basic project plan, with the option to add, remove, or refine selected tasks, or to insert/add multiple sub-activities or sibling activities to plan the duration and timing of the task. When you set tasks before and after, the system will automatically adjust the time of the related tasks for you.
Next, assign tasks for the project to team members, either by filling in the assigned person for a task or by batch assigning tasks based on the role.
After project tasks are assigned to the leader, the leader can further subdivide and assign within the same project, and each team member shares the current and up-to-date project plan in the system.
CORNERSTONE’s online project management system is based on team progress reporting and summary to ensure that the system reflects the true progress of the project.
At the same time, 8 views such as Gantt chart and calendar view can be switched in real time to display activity progress, critical path or milestone critical path, so that the project progress is clear at a glance.
Second, real-time shared dynamic information to enhance the reliability of project information
CORNERSTONE is based on transaction behavior and strong project management logic, through real-time independent computing, accurate and reliable information data can be traced back to the source.
In addition, the system can real-time audit tracking each project activity or deliverables, each project members only, can obtain consistent precision, real-time view of information, to ensure the project planning and execution, more can completely eliminate by the misunderstanding caused by multiple versions of the truth, to help management to make effective decisions.
3. Powerful project functions on demand to realize overall project control
CORNERSTONE not only meets the needs of project teams to communicate and collaborate online, but also provides powerful project management capabilities compared to simple online platforms on the market.
In terms of project communication and collaboration, CORNERSTONE provides intelligent mechanisms such as automatic warning and notification, automatic generation and submission of weekly progress reports, online instant chat, reports, process approval and surveys to ensure efficient communication and timely feedback from project teams.
In terms of project management, CORNERSTONE covers ten major areas of project management, including technology development projects, business delivery projects, and enterprise internal affairs management. You can easily adapt to the different management styles required in different situations and achieve detailed management for different project phases.
● In the start-up stage of the project, the project can be started and approved through the project approval process, or directly choose the project template to create a project, to achieve the implementation of the project management specifications. At the same time, especially for r & D projects and delivery projects, resources, budget, requirements and project material list can be further planned, project plan can be approved online process, easy to complete project plan management.
In the stage of project implementation and monitoring, in addition to the project schedule, quality, cost, resource and so on multi-dimensional real-time monitoring management, also support the question and the risk management, enterprise can also increase in working hours, submit an expense account management, procurement outsourcing management, risk management, defect management, change management, help project personnel real-time effective tracking of project management.
● In the final phase of projects, documents can be filed in real time through CORNERSTONE, and good projects can be saved as templates to accumulate experience and share knowledge, release surplus resources and analyze project performance if necessary.
Reasonable and effective use of project management tools, not only can let us work orderly, but also can maximize the achievement of project objectives. CORNERSTONE offers modules for task/requirements/test management, iteration planning, defect tracking, report statistics, team collaboration, wikis, shared files and calendars, and is now free for teams of 20 or less.
