Team Effect Project Management Software
Team Effect is an intuitive and accessible online project management system that encourages team involvement in project planning and execution.
Team Effect is the result of over 6 years experience observing why project plans rarely reflect reality and why so many online project management systems fail to achieve. Most are little more than a collection of shared lists and unstructured data, yet despite the abundance of data it is not always obvious how it reflects the state of the project or what people should be working on right now.
“From our personal experiences with project management we knew dates presented in a list format aren’t as real to people as when they see them stretched onto a calendar view; once people see the tasks represented visually it becomes more obvious where the plan is departing from reality.”
Another of Team Effect’s founding realisations was that traditional PPM systems typically fail to deliver because they rely on the participation of people who struggle to adjust to their awkward interface, and have nothing to gain personally from using the system.
To Team Effect the solution was simple. Make it intuitive, make it easy to visualise, make it fun, and make it a valuable tool that will get everyone involved in the successful planning and execution of projects.
Visual Project Planning
Team Effect’s first point of difference is doing away with the task list and replacing it with an interactive Gantt chart style calendar. All of the complex project planning can be done interactively from this central view with mouse gestures making even the most complex projects quick and intuitive to setup.
Successful project execution involves good planning but also excellent resource forecasting and scheduling. Team Effect brings both of these elements into the same interface used for planning. By bringing scheduling and planning into the one interface you get total clarity that every aspect of a project is under control.
Execution
More benefits emerge when used by all project members as a day-to-day tool. In the individual’s view, their tasks and actions are displayed in an easy to comprehend calendar layout with gorgeous coloured bars depicting progress made.
Each team member can instantly see how far through their tasks they are expected to be and can report their progress quickly, through the same interface, using mouse gestures. All these progress measurements are instantly consolidated into a top level view showing the state of the project.
When everyone in the project can see the big picture visually, no skeletons can hide in the closet because there are many more pairs of eyes scrutinizing the validity of the project’s plan.
We see Team Effect becoming an integral component of the new collaborative high-tech work force where effective workers turn to integrated and intuitive online tools on a daily basis.
Team Effect starts from as little as US$15 per month and only charges you for what you use.
