By William Todd
Project overviews define why a project is taking place, what are the business plans, and what the business benefits. A well spent time in planning a project will reduce cost, duration and the quality of the project. A project overview statement gives the following information:
Project name and date
Revision history and versions: includes the date when changes were made & who made the changes.
Sponsor or Customer
Project Manager
Project Objective: describes what the project is going to achieve.
Time estimate: includes the time each team member will spend on that project.
Total costs: includes the capital items and expense items.
Project classification matrix
Assumptions: includes events that are required for the completion of the project but is outside the control of the project team.
Risks: includes circumstances which can have an adverse impact on the project.
Obstacles or constraints: includes fixed budget, limited resources etc.
Supporting documents: includes copies of business plans, policies, and guidelines.
Approval: includes signatures from concerned project holders.
The application of latest management techniques and systems to execute a project from start to end, to maintain quality, time and cost has given rise to various online project management tools.
Small business is a business owned privately and operated by a small number of employees. Small businesses have worked with email applications, accounting software, contact managers and databases, sales, and bookkeeping. The latest software and systems work together with the programs one is already using.
Operating systems: Windows XP is one of the most advanced desk operating system. Business men can work faster and smarter with this operating system.
Office Systems: The MS office enables one to access information quickly, streamline activities, share and communicate with team members.
Networking and Servers: provides messaging, collaboration, security-enhanced internet access, and protected data storage. Eg. Windows small business server 2003.
Developer tools: obtain quick results, build windows, web, and mobile, communicate and share more with teams, and ensure quality. Eg. Visual studio 2005.
Project manager software helps you plan, monitor, and report on the project. It helps one understand the actual versus planned progress in a project as it happens. It s a web-based system hence one can login from anywhere at anytime. It has the following features:
Dashboard: This one gives a graphical view of the status of one s task online. One can customize one s dashboard and create a unique way to view one s project. With the help of group portfolio one can view different projects at the same time.
Project planner: This helps to create and share plans with team members. One can schedule tasks and assign resources online.
Intelligent reporting: This helps to configure the project status reports with the information one needs.
Manage teams: This helps to create teams, assign tasks, and reallocate tasks.
Track results: This helps to view progress of the project against schedules
Collaborate online: It helps to send emails to other people in the project, share documents, images, and add comments.
Task Manager gives information about programs and processes that run on one s computer. One can see the status of the running programs and end programs that have stopped responding. One can also see graphs and data on CPU and the amount of memory used. If there is more than one person connected to one s computer, one can see who is connected, who is doing a specific task, and also send messages to them. The various tabs used are as follows:
Application tab: Using this tab one can update data, end a program, start a new program, and switch between programs.
Process tab: Using this tab one can assign a process, change priority of running programs, end a process, sort the list of processes, and process column headings.
Performance tab: Using this one can view graphs, number of processes running on the computer, update task manager, change display option, and performance field s overview.
Networking tab: Using this one can view the quality & availability of the network connection. It displays a graphical representation of the network performance.
User tab: displays the users who can access the computer, client name, and session which provides one a name to perform task like sending other user a message or to get connected to other user s session.
Thus build a business or run a project effectively with various aids.
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