RSS feedThe PM module defines a kind of "project rooms" that concentrate all project-relevant information in a single HTML page. The information exhibited in these "project rooms" depends on the access rights of the project team members, allowing for a secure collaboration with both providers and customers.
Projects can be structured in any level of subprojects and "project tasks". Projects and subprojects allow to assign access permissions to project members, while "project tasks" serve to track the project advance and to log the dedication of employees (Timesheet Management).
Project templates are used to store and standardize frequently used project structures. For example, an "Analysis Template" may contain the standard tasks used during the project analysis phase of an IT consulting company. New projects can rapidly be created selecting several templates.
Project rooms are aware of the online presence of the team members, allowing all team members to chat simultaneously (online chat conference).
Project Managers can be obliged to upload weekly project reports. These reports are visible only to senior management. The PMs can get reminded by email to deliver their reports.
The Risk Management package provides a graphical risk chart that allows project managers and senior management to track the risks of the company's project portfolio throughout all phases of the lifecycle.
Project Tasks can be attributed with a financial value. This value together with the completion % of the task allow to calculate the ratio between spent resource and project progress, allowing the senior management to detect project deviations early in the project cycle.
Use ]po[ to generate Gantt charts that helps you to plan and communicate your project.
Besides the native chart shown in the grafik above there's also an export/import interface to the Open Source product "GanttProject". GanttProjects drag-and-drop functionality allows you to conveniently reorganize tasks and import them back to ]po[.
Here's the best-practice approach on how to work with GanttProject:
1. Create Project in ]po[
2. Create at least one task in ]po[
3. Assign ]po[ users to your project
4. Export your project to GanttProject
5. Add an arbitrary number tasks, assign ressources and create task dependencies
6. Upload GanttProject file back to ]po[
You can use GanttProject at any time to edit your project tasks. With every upload, an import wizard performs some plausibility checks, to prevent that no tasks with timesheet data has been deleted outide ]po[ etc.
We work currently on an interface to MS Project (XML). Use the form below to get in touch with us in case you'd like to sponsor this task.
Provides a web interface to project files stored in a local file server, allowing to work employees in the main office to work with local files (using the MS-Windows explorer as always) while allowing project members access from the outside according to security privileges.
Project schedules can be exported to GanttProject , allowing to maintain the project scheduling using a graphical editor while allowing to use the integrated cost and resource management functions of ]project-open[.
In the future, project schedules can be also be imported from MS-Project.
All financial packages are integrated with project management such as:
All of these items are classified according to the project- and subproject level and can be reported accordingly.
Invoices can be generated automatically based on the project data, allowing for several options such as fixed price, cost based pricing (dedicated hours multiplied by a hourly rate per resource) or user defined rules (requires additional consulting). Multiple invoices can be issued for a single project.
