subject: Are Web Based Management Applications Of Any Use For Our Business? [print this page] Simple sole trader businesses may do just well by resorting to traditional project management, with its basic five stage-sequence, from the inception of the project though the design stage, the execution one, the overseeing and control one and the final closing stage. Depending on the kind of projects, some of these stages may be even completely ignored.
What is to say that the type of project management tool we need depends on the size of our business and of its specific goals. Some electricians setting up some small web-based businesses working from home, though web-based, would definitely not need web-based project management software for their limited project pools and objectives. On the other hand, if we are a national public company, in the case of which the estimates of the duration of a project or the warning of risks are key, then a project management software of the scheduling type or providing information type may prove crucial for the timely fulfillment of our project objectives.
Therefore, the project management software is of many types, and we may use the ones that are more efficient for our business project: budget management, resource allocation, cost-control, administration etc. All these applications are designed to cope with large complex projects.
Further, project management applications may be implemented as web applications, being accessed through intranet or extranet. Either way, they will be easily accessible and controllable from any type of computer, by multiple users. There are multiple advantages: you need maintenance of just one software version, the data are centralized, the planning includes all levels. There are of course some disadvantages too, common to any web tool: slow access or interruption when the server is off line (for power cut related reasons or breakdowns).
Although some people may prefer less sophisticated tools, especially if projects are within small family businesses, public businesses that deploy large projects involving large pools of resources that need to be allocated and multiple tasks requiring complex scheduling would benefit a lot from such a sophisticated web-based tool. The analysis of business needs based on the research of the market and competitors for instance could be thoroughly achieved by using such a tool, helping us to better plan and complete our projects.
by: Jack Wogan.
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