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As any seasoned project manager knows, projects can be technical and challenging and even the most organized of project managers will run into some problems along the way. Adding to the complexity of project demands is the fact that many organizations are facing increasingly difficult market or trading conditions, so now more than ever the requirement for planning and control around management of projects is critical. A re-occurring theme that project managers face is the management of their projects' performance and any project's performance can be diminished due to cost overruns and time delays.

After reading some articles on the importance of a good project management tool it got me thinking about the human aspect of project management , that being the project manager! What makes a project manager stand out from the rest of the team? And what skills do the need to hold in order for the project to be successful?

The time sheet functionality within ProjectVision's project management software allows Project Managers (PM) to view how project team members are spending their time on tasks, projects or programs. Do you, as a PM, face the task of chasing 100+ project team members to find out how they spend their time while working on a particular project? This process is necessary for the organization and control of project or program as it enables the project manager to keep to the time line that has been set. Manually keeping an account of timesheets can be both an unproductive and time consuming job.

Time, organization and management resources needs to be invested into the day to day running of any project including the people that are involved in the delivery of the project. Gathered from a project team's survey we have combined a list of tips for a project manager and a project management team on how to aid in the smooth transition of a project from the start to finish.

As anyone involved with Project Management knows, Work Breakdown Structure or a WBS is one of the key terms used in project management. The WBS is essential for the correct management of a projects lifecycle. It forms an important component of the planning of a project with a particular focal point being put on time management. The core principle behind having a work breakdown structure is to divide a project into sections. Having this step by step structure in place will enable project managers (PM's) to encompass more control and visibility of their work program.

ProjectVision allows project managers and project user's full control of the look and feel of our project management software. ProjectVision is a flexible and scalable project management tool which allows any user to customize the pages, reports, dashboards and fields. ProjectVisions ensures uniformity as our software is wrapped around your organizations languages, work practices and project methodologies.

ProjectVision's easy to use project management capability provides organizations, with features to enable the effective management of projects and tasks. Planning and organization is core to project management in an effort to achieve success. Project management can be done without complication by integrating with ProjectVision.

ProjectVision is available in two versions, On Demand and Enterprise. ProjectVision is a web-based Portfolio and Project Management Software system, empowering control and visibility over Business Plans, Strategic Objectives, Programs and Projects. ProjectVision's easy to use project management capability provides project managers, team members and indeed any member of an organization, with the tools to effectively implement and complete projects and related tasks.

ProjectVision ensures project collaboration via feature rich email notifications. ProjectVision allows the project management team (PMO) to improve the effectiveness of their project or portfolio management with web based project management collaboration tool. To-Do lists, actions, messages, files and milestones can be instantly updated and circulated via push email notifications to the project team members.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail!! It is essential that before you start a project, you must put an adequate amount of planning into it before it gets off the ground. It may be tempting to go at the project all guns blazing with a power of motivation behind it from an optimistic project team. However taking this hasty approach could have severe knock on affects on the success of the project. Planning is a fundamental rule to flawless project management.

ProjectVision's project management software ensures your projects get off to a fast start by allowing the user to input project data into an already existing project template which has been configured to suit an organization.

Complex program management often have many projects being completed by different sections of an organization. ProjectVision eliminates the risk of errors occurring in complex projects and pre-empting any project obstacles in the progression of the project or program management.

Project management efficiency and change in healthcare and NHS. Using Project and program management software to manage change programs

Implementing IT Project Management Software in a government department. Cora Systems implemented a Project and Portfolio Management system for IT Assist.

ProjectVision brings a focus to portfolio management to help increase visibility, insight and accountability for any project within a portfolio of projects. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) within ProjectVision product suite, is a management tool for analyzing and managing a group of current or project requests across numerous project characteristics. ProjectVision's comprehensive reporting module gives a wide range of reports under portfolio management to choose from.

In a project a risk is defined as an event that may or may not occur that could bring with it an element of negativity or positivity to a project. Therefore it is an essential duty when it comes to project management.

Cora Systems have developed ProjectVision's project management software for project managers and project team members to enable them to fully control their tasks, projects and programs.

Blog on project management software and general project management tips to help any organization roll out and manage projects for IT, Healthcare, Government and Pharma Industries

ProjectVision's Cashflow Management functionality takes the guess work out of managing project cashflow by giving complete visibility of all outgoings for a project or a program of multiple projects. Full control of your budget will be enabled and highlight expenditures that can be incurred for the remaining budgetary period.

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