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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?

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.

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.

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 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'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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Some organisations will be apprehensive about making the transition from spreadsheets to project management software especially if it's heavily embedded into the culture of the organisation and its employees. However, good flexible project management software clearly has much more to offer an organisation as it will provide a solution for all and more of the issues that are mentioned above. Hence, there is no real reason why an organisation could not make the leap and implement a fully functional project management software tool into the hub of the project team and relish in its benefits.

Project managing an operational plan in a large, fast moving local authority is a challenge. A project management tool can deliver plans on time and in budget

An online project management software tool can benefit most organizations that can be faced with challenges such as project selection, project team collaboration, task management, resource planning, project milestones and project timesheet tracking.

ProjectVision's scope management functionality allows project scope statements and documentation to be controlled and maintained. All scope heading can be user-defined ensuring adherence to an organization's project methodology. Version control allows tracking of the changes made to the scope over the duration of the project.

ProjectVision is an online and enterprise project management software tool, incorporating portfolio and program management and providing control over plans, objectives, risks and resources

ProjectVision's project management software has a built in document control feature allows organizations to upload or link files to their projects

ProjectVision's project management software tool aids local authorities by providing them with a solution that manages their project portfolios, costs of your projects and resourcing from a single web-based platform. It pulls together project information, real time financial information, spatial (GIS) information and can fully integrate with many other systems.

Project management software and PPM tools on managing projects

ProjectVision is the number one Program, Project and Performance management application in the Irish Local Government. It also has an ever increasing presence in the UK Local Government sector.