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  8Manage develop & sell blockchain based enterprise mgt software, including CRM,PPM,SPM,OA,HCM and Finance.We help over 300 corporate clients successfully manage their business and operations.   

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A project team, whether it uses Agile or Waterfall, will fail if it doesn’t watch out for the above problems and find ways to resolve them.

When should use #Agile for #projectmanagement and when would use traditional methods?In fact, the choice of implementation method largely depends on factors such as the nature, scale, and resources involved. For #project management, the most important point is that your team completes tasks as efficiently as possible. 

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There is no universally good or bad project management methodologies. When you need to run a project, you should select the project management methodology that is suitable for your project situation.

When you need to run a project, you should try your best to choose the corresponding project management method according to the actual situation of the project.

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There is a misconception out there that if you use an Agile Kanban method to manage your projects, you can’t use Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and vice versa.

Being able to dynamic switching between Kanban Agile and WBS views creates the best project management method to plan, track, and manage complex projects.

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Project management is greatly assisted by CRM software in many ways. 8Manage CRM and 8Manage PM can work together and can help you to achieve many benefits.

Establishing an 8MSaaS enterprise management system that adapts to CRM and organically integrates with enterprise project management will help enterprises discover and tap larger potential markets.

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Time tracking is very basic from management standpoint and every organization should at least distinguish its staff are hard work, moderate work and no work.

Time tracking is very basic from management standpoint and every organization should at least distinguish its staff are hard work, moderate work and no work.

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Requirements exist within all projects. Requirements Management functionality is very important in Project Management Tool.

Project demand management aims to achieve overall tasks or requirements in a high-quality way to satisfy customers. It occupies a very important position in the entire process of the project.

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8Manage Agile Large Project was designed based on Agile iterative approach and large project transactional WBS. It can provide you Agile advantages for large projects.

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8Manage full automation helps enterprises realize electronic document management, customer relationship management, project management and e-procurement management.

To better realize online office, we must first solve the problems of efficiency and management.Therefore,the Full Automation type of platforms is becoming increasingly important.

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SaaS is not only low-cost, but it can create value for users faster and provide companies with the flexibility they need to bring change when they need it.

SaaS is not only low-cost, but it can create value for users faster and provide companies with the flxibility they need to bring change when they need it.

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8Manage Full Automation-Application Suite as a Service (ASaaS)，helps SMEs avoid the high cost of SaaS fragmentation.

8Manage Full Automation-Application Suite as a Service (ASaaS) , effectively solves the fragmentation within the ecosystem promoted by multiple applications in the enterprise, and achieves efficient and stable integrated operation.

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When choosing project management tool, project managers must give weight to the right criteria. 8Manage PPM can provide the right team with the right information and project data integrity protection.

When choosing project management tool,project managers must give weight to the right criteria. 8Manage PPM can provide the right team with the right information and project data integrity protection.

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For remote project management, you can use 8Manage ppm, which can help you manage project planning and execution, deliverables, resources, etc., and ensure the authenticity of project data.

Resource sharing and dependencies can increase the complexity of managing a remote project tremendously.Therefore, a more powerful project management tool such as 8Manage PPM is needed to manage such complexity.  

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8Manage PPM uses the real-time transactional project management technology which can keep project information up-to-date and accurate and in turn can keep people honest.

The real-time transactional project management (Transactional PPM) technology can keep project information up-to-date and accurate, which in turn can keep people honest.

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Can you manage your project with a whiteboard automation tool?

In theory, if you are managing a project that doesn’t have much time-and-cost constraints but only feature-and-quality measures and giving you long enough time and high enough budget, you probably can meet the feature-and-quality measures. This is the same theory that given unlimited time and unlimited supply of moneys and typewriters, the moneys eventually can type out the masterpieces of William Shakespeare.

Do most real-life projects have time-and-cost constraints such as a few years and tens of million dollars?

Yes, most real-life projects including new product development projects have time-and-cost constraints. Some project sponsors may emphasize the importance of creating an advanced product to beat the competition. But in reality introducing a new product from concept to selling is always under the time constraint called marketing window and the development and marketing costs of the new product are always under budget and fund availability constraints.

Many project teams saying their projects aren’t under time-and-cost constraints because either those constraints are unknown to them or they believe what they want to believe. This happens because of the lack-of-clarity in project objectives and constraints and misalignment of project team’s commitment and accountability.

What is a whiteboard automation tool?

Whiteboard automation tool is a project management tool. The commonest types of whiteboard automation tools are:

1. The automation of drawing and redrawing of a Gantt chart or a scheduling chart based on manual input to provide the graphical view of project activity time spans and dependencies

2. The automation of placing and replacing of different yellow sticky papers (representing activities) based on manual input on a Kanban board marked with different columns (representing statuses) to provide the graphical view of project activity statuses

What is the most important thing of managing a project that has time-and-cost constraints?

The most important thing of managing a project that has time-and-cost constraints is to get the project information right. On the contrary, if the project information can mislead everyone in the project, even the project has an experienced project manager and qualified and disciplined team members, they are at best good fire-fighters since they can’t prevent problems or solve problems when they are still small because of their lacking of information.

In other words, even a good project team needs good project information in order to act effectively.

Why many managers often believe that their project are manageable at the planning stage but later on they find out that it is actually beyond their ability to manage?

It is easier said than done

The project information at project planning stage is future plan, not actual accomplishments.

Not begin with end in mind

Some people don’t have the experience or wisdom to see the execution complexity of their project.

Static vs. dynamic information

The project information at the planning stage is static but the project information at execution stage is dynamic. Static information can be maintained by one or two people in the office using a whiteboard or a whiteboard automation tool, but dynamic information must be managed using a real-time transactional tool.

How is project static information (e.g., project plan) usually captured and updated?

Project plan information is usually captured and updated using a whiteboard or a whiteboard automation tool such as MS Project or a Kanban tool. MS Project is to automate the drawing of Gantt chart or a scheduling chart while a Kanban tool is to automate putting yellow sticky papers (each yellow sticky paper representing an activity) on a Kanban board (columned whiteboard).

Can project dynamic information (e.g., activity status, dependency and forecast information) be maintained using a whiteboard or a whiteboard automation tool?

No, unless for a very simple project in which what you see on the whiteboard is what you truly get.

What are the serious problems if project dynamic information is maintained using a whiteboard or a whiteboard automation tool?

The responsibility and time-commitment of shared resources are untracked and unknown.

Most scarce resources (e.g., domain experts) are often shared by the different activities in the same or different projects. When an activity changes its schedule, it will affect the schedules of its shared resources which in turn will affect the schedules of the activities that share these resources, even though the activity that starts the sequence of schedule changes has no predecessor relationships with the affected activities.

Using a whiteboard or a whiteboard automation tool will require manual detection of the transitive relations and manual update of the complex information affected by the sequence of schedule changes on the whiteboard or whiteboard automation tool in a timely manner.

Inability to traverse the relationships and update the information in a timely manner can cause the project team to be uninformed and consequently misjudge the situation and fail to take the right actions at the right time.

Lateness is not reported until the last minute

A project is late one day at a time. But, as pointed out by the author of “The Myth of 90% Complete” article (https://www.projectmanagement.com/articles/220690/Project-Control--The-Myth-of-90--Complete) that many projects were suddenly changed from 90% complete to 50% without any requirements change. Since the information from a whiteboard or a whiteboard automation tool depends 100% manual input, people simply can delay reporting their activity is late until the last minute.

Budget overrun is not detected until months later

A well-known stock exchange had an important project led by a project steering committee and managed by a project management committee. The 2 committees had very experienced executives, managers and accountants. However, the overrun of the project budget was not detected until 3 months after it happened. The 2 committees did the post mortem and found the following root causes of the problem:

i) The project information generated from the whiteboard tool was quite disjoint from the financial information in the financial systems

ii) The financial information was quite delayed (since the nature of double entry accounting is quite manual) even when a system was used to entry the credit and debit information

iii) The whiteboard tool that provided graphical view of the project status based on manual input from project personnel was doing garbage-in and garbage-out

What is a non-project example of how dynamic information is being maintained effectively in our daily life?

A family has 5 members and each has an ATM card of the same account. It doesn’t matter how these 5 people are in the same or different countries, at the same or different times and withdrawing or depositing money, the system can always maintain all interaction and transaction information in the clear, accurate and real-time manner with non-corruptible audit trail.

How dynamic project information can be maintained effectively?

Please see http://www.8manage.com/advantages/blockchain_pm.html.

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Digital transformation to avoid downtime of enterprises, especially SMBs

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Global consulting firms such as Booz Allen and McKinsey & Company have been urging enterprises to do digital transformation for efficiency and competitiveness reasons. Here comes coronavirus and we can add the benefits of healthiness and avoidance of company shut-down to the list.

Small and Medium-size Businesses (SMB) are suffering from coronavirus disease to avoid coronavirus transmission and company shut-down, not only employees in your department need to be online, employees in all other departments in your company need to be online. In addition, the following external partners that your company deal with also need to be online:

-Clients,

-Potential clients (e.g., visitors, members, leads),

-Suppliers/vendors/contractors,

-Potential suppliers/vendors/contractors (e.g., under recruitment or pre-qualified)

-Channels (e.g., agencies, resellers, distributors)

-Potential Channels

The new business processes will need to flow through multiple departments internally and multiple partner organizations externally since the objective is to have the business information fully digitalized and the business processes fully automated so that people can understand each other and work efficiently without the need for physical meetings (high communication bandwidth) but use remote meetings (lower communication bandwidth) instead.

Using the following example to illustrate: A company signed a sales contract to deliver products and services a month ago and it already started the product procurement and the delivery project, the client is now requesting to change the product quantity and project delivery schedule, which implies the sales contract, the procurement contract and the delivery project need to be changed and the business process will need to flow through at least the company’s sales , procurement, project, finance and legal departments internally and its client and supplier’s organizations externally.

Full automation such as above typically was done by large corporations spending money on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). But Small and Medium-size Businesses (SMB) need full digitization and automation as well to avoid coronavirus and company shut-down. Can SMB acquire several different SaaS and do EAI themselves? The answer is unlikely since EAI is expensive and even SMB are willing to pay the high cost, they might not have the IT sophistication to manage the high accidental (not essential) complexity of fragmented SaaS.

We can help: 8Manage SaaS has the CRM, Commerce, Procurement, Office Automation, Timesheet, Human Capital Mgt., Project Mgt. and Service Mgt modules and we have been selling them individually:

Since all 8Manage SaaS modules were designed to work together by the same team based on the same architecture and technology stack, they can run on the same addressing space efficiently and business processes can flow through them. the user can easily manage the editing, approval and publishing of information and obtain assessment and feedback from the people in real-time. 8Manage full automation system allows everyone to deal with business communications effectively at anytime and anywhere.

After the negative influence of coronavirus, we now offer Full Automation Suite (FAS) as one single offering at the price is only 2.5 times as a single-module’s price so that SMB can achieve full digitalization and automation in an effective and inexpensive manner to avoid coronavirus and company shut-down. 

8Manage automation system allows you to set up end-to-end business processes to manage magnitude of clients, channels, suppliers, projects, procurements, products, services, human resources, assets and financials. It provides you the powerful full automation solutions of your business and operations. Try for free Now!

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Enterprises can use 8Manage full automation to simplify the process of transition to remote working environment,it can keep you connected, in communication and collaborating successfully.

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Procurement SaaS solution(e.g., 8Manage SPM) has the following additional benefits over the traditional software solutions: lower solution cost,simplistic implementation,seamless scalability.