Five Apps: Tools to help CIOs manage IT
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Five apps to help CIOs do their job successfully
Five apps to help CIOs do their job successfully
Thisrngallery is a supplement to a TechRepublic article.
Take a look at five tools to help a CIO manage their ITrndepartment’s business interaction.
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project
Ace Project comes with a very useful dashboard that breaksrntasks down by their status, allows you to monitor time spent, and check on thernoverall status of projects.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project 2
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project 2
Tasks contain all of the common fields most project managersrnare used to.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project 3
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project 3
The free Ace Project package allows for three active users,rntwo active projects, 50 active tasks, and 250 MB of storage. This dashboard helps you keep track of yourrnusage.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Ace Project 4
Ace Project allows for customization to make your projectrnsite match your company’s branding.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap
Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap
PPM Roadmap also contains a highly useful dashboard thatrnuses color to indicate status across projects, availability, and utilization.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap 2
Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap 2
The project selection screen shows the health of each projectrnagain as well as a couple of status indicators.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap 3
Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap 3
Drilling into each project displays a list of tasks orrnu201cTodosu201d that contains many of the common fields as well u2013 especially when yourndrill into each one.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap 4
Five Apps to Help CIOs: PPM Roadmap 4
The tasks can also be viewed from the point-of-view of arnteam member.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects
The home page for Zoho Projects is a feed that shows thernlatest changes on the projects you’re working on.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects2
The dashboard for each project also shows a feed of thernproject’s most recent changes as well as an overview of the project.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects 3
Tasks and milestones once again contain the commonrnfields. Team members can simply clickrnthe percent field and select the current percent of completion.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects 4
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects 4
Zoho Projects contains a calendar view that displays therntasks each person or the whole group are responsible for overlaid in anrneasy-to-read view.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects 5
Project team members can create additional pages and dashboardsrnto add in to their Zoho Projects site.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Zoho Projects 6
Zoho Projects also has a forums feature which is uniquernamong the selections on this list.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Open Source Requirements Management Tool
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Open Source Requirements Management Tool
OSRMT helps keep track of requirements in any of yourrnprojects. They can initially be brokenrndown into various categories.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Open Source Requirements Management Tool 2
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Open Source Requirements Management Tool 2
Each category can then have subcategories which then containrnthe various requirements.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Open Source Requirements Management Tool 3
Each requirement can have the target version, a priority, arnstatus, attachments, and a description.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 1
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 1
Planware Online Strategic Planner is part of an array ofrntools available to plan various business interactions.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 2
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 2
Other than the business name, the first u2013 and most key u2013rnaspect of this tool is capturing SWOTs (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,rnand Threats).
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 3
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 3
Other key fields include Vision, Mission Statement, andrnValues.
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Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 4
Five Apps to Help CIOs: Planware Online Strategic Planner 4
Once you are happy with the entries, simply click one of thernCompile Plan buttons to view the entire plan in a formatted display that can berneasily copied into a word processor and adjusted as needed.
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