GPPC Connections 2011 | November 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Do online project management solutions help our practices? Sandra Glick Stuart Gamm CriticalEdge Group, Inc.

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Provide an example of how one VAR organization is solving their project management challenges To enable the attendees to share ideas of tools that have helped to improve their project management in their organizations Goals for this session

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Poll Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV What project management tools are you using right now? What is working? What is not working? Poll

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Tools Used: – MS Project – Excel – Excel/SharePoint Issues: – Communicating due dates and assignments To Staff To Customers To Partners – Updates to the plans Our Problem

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Easy to use Collaboration Automatic assignment of tasks to team members Improved project management Outlook integration What we needed

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Products Researched – Wrike – Smartsheet Other products available on market – Too many to list Products Available

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Determine what you need and “would like”

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV software.findthebest.com/saved_search/T op-Online-Project-Management software.findthebest.com/saved_search/T op-Online-Project-Management Use search engines for online project management Recommendations – A business partner recommended WRIKE as easy to use and “fun” How to find the right program

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Highly recommended by similar type organization Looked easy to use Had basic functionality that we needed Was a good first step – maybe not a permanent solution Why we selected WRIKE

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Microsoft type interface (Folders) Collaboration with our customers Activity stream Gant Chart Imports/Exports Outlook integration – requirement for us Fast implementation Features we liked

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV Dashboard Folders Users Imports Assignment of tasks Updates to tasks and projects Gant Chart Reporting WRIKE DEMO

Connections 2011 | Nov 6-8 | Las Vegas, NV My contact information: Sandra Glick CriticalEdge Group, Inc. Thank you for attending

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