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- If managing IT is
your job, we've got a solution that answers your needs,
easily adjusting to changing department demands,
priority swings and responding to the urgent...while providing you
the planning and tracking
tools to keep your staff focused and
prioritized.
- Whether you're managing ad hoc tasks or planning projects with an international
IT portfolio project management scope, ManagePro delivers an
IT project management and task management
software solution that delivers great visibility and organization,
and your projects on time and within budget while minimizing needs for daily input.
- ManagePro is a IT management tool that combines
comprehensive functionality (resource allocation, dependencies,
integration with Outlook, time cards, linkage with
Strategic Plan, document management and scorecard metrics)
with ease of use. And that's just the start. As your needs expand, you'll find a complete set of performance, strategic alignment and
analytic business intelligence tools... all provided as part of the ManagePro solution
for IT management.
If you're wondering... "As an IT
Management
Solution, Does it also provide Resource Allocation, Gantt charts, Earned Value,
Personnel reviews...?"
The answer is yes, it does all of them, very well in fact. But the reason PC Magazine said it was "project management for the rest of us" goes beyond ease of use and comprehensive features.
It's the fact that ManagePro addresses project management within the larger scope of managing an IT department and the IT needs of an entire organization. An environment where some projects are formal and involved, and others are ad-hoc tasks and on any given day you need to move in and through all of them and have your people do the same. That means it's well suited to managing multiple projects, customer expectations and delivering the reports to make managing
the IT department, with all of its various demands, easily within your grasp.
Whether you're looking at this tool for the IT department or in behalf of the the larger organization, you will find that the inclusion of performance management, task management, portfolio management, strategic planning and document management tools within ManagePro all make for a use-able solution that will help you more effectively deliver results through others. Working a project is as simple as adding tasks from either an outline or Timeline view as depicted below, setting the start and due date if you know them (not required) and assigning who's going to complete it.
Use it for simple task management. Use it for
complete IT portfolio project management.
You'll find it to equally capable at both.
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PC Magazine described the ManagePro IT
Mgmt Software as - Project Management for the Rest of Us
PC Magazine 
Don't take PC Magazine's or our word for it, read a professional project manager
and reviewer's observations and with the free demo make your own decision about
our IT Department Project Management and Task Management
software:
"First as a project manager, and most recently as a project management consultant, I have often recognized the limitations of traditional project management software in some project environments. Project management software packages are designed to plan and schedule a series of activities required to be accomplished in some relatively fixed order in relation to each other. They focus on determining the critical path and the shortest path through the project, which allows all of the activities to be completed. They are generally powerful, often necessary allies when confronted with a large project involving perhaps several hundreds or even thousands of activities which draw on a large number of often interrelated and limited pools of resources to accomplish the tasks. The class of software termed "project management software" is, in reality, project scheduling software which uses often complicated mathematical algorithms to redistribute resources and rearrange activities in order to make the most effective and efficient use of a limited set of resources to complete a project within a specified time and budget.
However, there are huge numbers of projects which fall into a different category. This category includes small, low budget or short-duration projects which are neither mission critical nor high risk. The majority of these projects do not have the budget, management resources or time to enter data into or use a full blown project management system. These projects may not involve interdependent activities or interrelated resources. They do, however, need management attention to stay on schedule and within budget while delivering the required scope and quality.
In fact, the majority of project environments are made up of relatively small projects involving fewer than 20 individual (usually human) resources. They typically have a duration of less than six months (one year at the most) and a total budget of $20,000 to $1 million each. They are not high risk, mission critical or in a key result area of the organization's strategic plan. These small projects are often discontinuous and involve several points in time where all work must cease while something is reviewed, money is raised or approved for release to the budget, or another entity develops some piece of the project required before the remainder of the work can continue. The environment which I will call "small project" is also normally one where many small projects are being done at the same time. Often, some of the projects are on hold, but they still require monitoring and management at some level.
This is an environment where ManagePro excels.. "
-David McClure, OR/MS Today
There's a lot more to address about how our software can work for you
in the specific area of IT department task management as
well. Things like:
- Follow-up and follow-through are both improved using the visibility and drill-down capability.
- Color coded scorecards track the execution of all objectives, results tracking, the presence of plans and checklists and their status.
- Everything is available within a couple of clicks, including the requirements and issues relevant to each project,
- Improved decision making, clearer results and more accurate feedback from top to bottom in “One Place where it all comes together!”
