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Take a look at five tools to help a CIO manage their IT\r\ndepartment’s business interaction.
Ace Project comes with a very useful dashboard that breaks\r\ntasks down by their status, allows you to monitor time spent, and check on the\r\noverall status of projects.
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Tasks contain all of the common fields most project managers\r\nare used to.
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The free Ace Project package allows for three active users,\r\ntwo active projects, 50 active tasks, and 250 MB of storage. This dashboard helps you keep track of your\r\nusage.
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Ace Project allows for customization to make your project\r\nsite match your company’s branding.
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PPM Roadmap also contains a highly useful dashboard that\r\nuses color to indicate status across projects, availability, and utilization.
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The project selection screen shows the health of each project\r\nagain as well as a couple of status indicators.
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Drilling into each project displays a list of tasks or\r\n\u201cTodos\u201d that contains many of the common fields as well \u2013 especially when you\r\ndrill into each one.
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The tasks can also be viewed from the point-of-view of a\r\nteam member.
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The home page for Zoho Projects is a feed that shows the\r\nlatest changes on the projects you’re working on.
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The dashboard for each project also shows a feed of the\r\nproject’s most recent changes as well as an overview of the project.
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Tasks and milestones once again contain the common\r\nfields. Team members can simply click\r\nthe percent field and select the current percent of completion.
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Zoho Projects contains a calendar view that displays the\r\ntasks each person or the whole group are responsible for overlaid in an\r\neasy-to-read view.
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Project team members can create additional pages and dashboards\r\nto add in to their Zoho Projects site.
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Zoho Projects also has a forums feature which is unique\r\namong the selections on this list.
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OSRMT helps keep track of requirements in any of your\r\nprojects. They can initially be broken\r\ndown into various categories.
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Each category can then have subcategories which then contain\r\nthe various requirements.
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Each requirement can have the target version, a priority, a\r\nstatus, attachments, and a description.
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Planware Online Strategic Planner is part of an array of\r\ntools available to plan various business interactions.
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Other than the business name, the first \u2013 and most key \u2013\r\naspect of this tool is capturing SWOTs (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,\r\nand Threats).
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Other key fields include Vision, Mission Statement, and\r\nValues.
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Once you are happy with the entries, simply click one of the\r\nCompile Plan buttons to view the entire plan in a formatted display that can be\r\neasily copied into a word processor and adjusted as needed.
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