Project management may be of great importance, but it often overshadows something that is just as crucial — project collaboration.
Collaboration has always been an important part of business, although it's becoming more and more pertinent as we continue to become fully interconnected via technology and the Internet. Social intranet software, for example, has made collaborating with colleagues scattered throughout the world an easy process.
Collaborative project management is a method used to plan, coordinate, control, and monitor distributed and complex projects. It enables project teams to collaborate across departmental, corporate, and national boundaries and to master growing project complexity. Everybody in the project has access to the information in the project such as tasks, messages, and documents etc. This information is updated in real-time when changes occur. With the advent of Collaborative software more project teams use collaboration tools in their projects.
The key to project collaboration is giving each member of the team two critical yet somewhat contradictory types of information. Each individual contributor needs to know both the big picture of the project's objectives and the team's progress towards those goals, as well as the small picture of his or her individual tasks, including the answer to the key question, "Who does what by when?".
Project Planner apps with help of Project Planner Collaborative Network helps project managers and teams see both the progress of whole project and list of individal tasks
Gantt chart in applications shows overall progress of project, tasks list lets the project manager and the other team members create and assign tasks.
Each task provides the answer to "who does what by when"
Project Planner apps allow to store their data in Planner Collaborative Network and share it to another users.
Projects can be shared read-only as well as to edit. Sharing options will allow also to access only to assigned tasks only for progress update.
Every change made by team member assigned to task will be immediately reflected in overall progress on the project manager device.
Project Planner Collaborative Network is in Beta stage and, in current version, allows only to store data in Cloud and enables easy synchronization between iOS devices connected to this same account.
After logging into the service all data from device will be exported to Project Planner Collaborative Network. From this moment every data change on device will immediately reflect on the service and every other device connected to this account. Remember that if you delete task, project or other element on one device it will be immediately removed on every other device connected to this same account.