Solutions for companies who use Microsoft Project

Every company that uses Microsoft Project needs Standard Time®. Project management is changing. That's why we say "it's a whole new era".

Many companies still do project management by allowing their key people to guess at all the tasks and durations. A single person creates a project schedule using Microsoft Project and declares a release date. What follows over the next few months is a mess. Milestones are repeatedly missed and the project is late by at least 100%. The company moves on to the next project and proceeds with the same pattern, never learning from past mistakes.

This is where our product really helps! The missing ingredient in the scenario above is detailed task time information. There are several areas where this information can educate all persons involved. It can show you the biggest killer of all, "administrative overhead", and how it much time it really occupies in a schedule. Our special views can also show you the anatomy of a project and how much time is actually spent in each part. Knowing this information is incredibly valuable when planning your next project. It's like a microscope that improves the naked eye. Without this information you will repeat the scenario above time after time.

Since the product integrates directly with Microsoft MPP files you can get the details of work performed, and daily updates to your project schedule! While you use our product, Project is automatically being updated with all the time worked. Users can also contribute and update project tasks from within the native project task vies. This all means that your project will remain up-to-the-minute correct.

To use the program to clear the carnage of project executions do this: Set up each of your employees in the program. Set up the software to use a shared database, to connect with Microsoft MPP Project files, and to accurately model your company workgroup hierarchy. This way each employee contributes to a common repository of data and is properly placed within the company hierarchy. Make sure people log time conscientiously, and make sure they log time to every type of task they perform. This is very important because project anatomy is based on the detail of work performed. As the project progresses, use the reporting features to determine where your workgroup is spending its time. This will change as the project moves along. When the project is complete, analyze the results and make priority and value assessments about the time that was spent. Project efficiency is only improved when you can see the breakdown of the project. Without that breakdown, you're only guessing.

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