The future is already here - it is just
unevenly distributed.
William Gibson
- Wanted: Results
- Your response on the last poll
- Improvements
in our web services
- What are you planning? (a.k.a free advertising
for you)
Wanted: Results
I'd
be really surprised if you woke up this morning thinking - wow, today I get
to use project planning software whoopee! Similarly, no one wants to buy a
drill bit - you need a hole; no one wants to buy a new blender - you want a
blended margarita, smoothie or milkshake.
We understand that
ultimately, you want a plan that helps you accomplish a goal and that our
planning software and services are means to that end. Our quick to learn
tools coupled with the private and public project servers support you in
getting an actionable plan together as quickly as possible and continues to
support you as you execute the plan. The focus is on creating and executing
the plan - not the tool!
The projects that are stored in the
private project server are just that, private and you may share them as you
and your team see fit. But, take a look at the ever growing range of
projects in the public project server as a very fast way to get an initial
plan. The range and breadth of public projects continues to amaze and
gratify us and we hope you find them useful and continue to contribute your
plans to the public project server - see what's popular now.
Your Response On The Last Poll
In the last newsletter we ran a
simple, one-question poll: would you rather use a network diagram or Gantt
chart for editing projects in your browser. The results are shown in the
graph here and were strongly in favor of the Gantt chart. Well, I bet you
can guess what product is now on our product road map!
Improvements In Our Web Services
We've just released a significant update to the private
project server. You'll notice a number of user interface improvements
intended to simplify your navigation through the project server and present
the information you need when you need it. We've also made available to you
a beta release of our new project version comparison tool (more info on
project versioning). This new web service allows you to compare two
versions of a project and get information on the associated changes - this
is an excellent way to follow changes in a project or at project completion
to look back and see what changed as the project progressed. We'll be
adding additional detail in the coming weeks and at some point we may add
support for merging project versions.
If you have an account in
the private project server this new service is available to you now. And,
as always, if you don't yet have an account in the private project server
you can check out this new service using the guest account. An
account in the private project server is included with all OpenPlanning and
ProPlanning licenses - get
your license today.
What
Are You Planning? (a.k.a free advertising for you)
This
newsletter is distributed to tens of thousands of people - most are in
Europe, Australia, Canada and the US. We'd love to help you or your
business by mentioning your efforts here. So, just drop me a piece of email
with a few sentences about what you are doing and how our tools help
you succeed - we'll pick one of the submissions and publish it in the next
newsletter (and more in the following months if warranted). Be sure to
include your website address and the link to a public plan highlighting
your business if you would like those included. This would be a great way
for a service or consulting company to strut their stuff.
I'm
writing this on a beautiful Saturday afternoon - earlier I mentioned making
margarita's - a bike ride followed by a margarita seems like a great idea.
So, adios until next time.
Roger
roger@sharedplan.com