Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Project Management

Project Management

As organizations continue to expand their horizons and multiply rapidly in terms of geography, size & revenues, efficient management of various resources of the projects plays an increasingly critical role in determining the success of such projects. To follow strict timelines and ensure quality of output, judicious allocation of time, work & people against critical tasks and constant monitoring of project data is essential.

OpenERP’s Project Management module empowers organization to effortlessly deal with complexity of large projects. Be it any kind of project, the module is perfectly poised to facilitate planning of all work that is required for completion of the project. You can handle critical activities such as allocating resources, tracking project progress, communicating with clients about status updates and do much more.

Project Management

Manage complete life cycle of your projects with OpenERP Project Management module. You can create projects, choose to structure projects by dividing projects into phases and sub-phases, link phases, allocate resources to each project and track those resources effectively.

Tasks

Projects are made up of various tasks, which can be managed using the module. The module provides you the flexibility to create tasks, assign resources to tasks, delegate tasks, periodically review them and monitor their progress.

Time Management

Time management with respect to projects can be done in two ways – Timesheets and Time-boxes. While timesheet allows users to record time spent on each activity, time-boxing allows users to manage their time on projects judiciously and allows them to keep track of the planned hours and the time spent on each activity.

Scheduling

Schedule all/specific projects by phase or task using Gantt Charts that help in better planning of the project.