Multiple project planner and reporter - keep your team members on the top of productivity with resource sharing solution

When organization drives a multiple project plan portfolio (or just set of independent projects) it can face various problems as multiple project planning refers to intricate process of sharing common resources (time, team staff, costs) among number of the running projects. In order to avoid conflicts and issues around competing for shared resources, multiple project planner (project manager who is responsible for planning multiple projects) should be able to get superior overview of the multiple project plan. This superior overview means process of multiple project planning at portfolio level as working with summary or key data, avoiding information overload. Effective multiple project plan composing, optimizing and carrying out are the subjects for specific managing multiple projects training courses. Theme that stands apart in each managing multiple projects training is innovative methods and tools that can be used for controlling and planning multiple projects in terms of resources sharing and evolution tracking.

There is a class of software products that are intended to help managers with planning multiple projects, because they visualize multiple project plan and evolution. This type of products is correspondingly called multiple project planner. This kind of software allows planning multiple projects within the same working environment.VIP Task Manager can be considered as proper multiple project planner that allows driving multitude of activities with specific timelines, budgets, performers, priorities and other possible attributes. This tool enables multiple project planning and controlling in terms of sharing common budget, time and staff. VIP Task Manager, as effective multiple project planner, allows breaking down multiple project plan into smaller stages and activities supplemented with detailed information and then to overview this multiple project plan in terms of key information in rolled up view at portfolio level.

VIP Task Manager, owing to its customizability, allows creating and maintaining heterogeneous multiple project plan where each project's details (tasks, time, costs, assignments etc.) and specific workflows are kept at the project team level, administered by dedicated project managers and delegated to different performers. With a help of this multiple project planner group of performers can be listed, identified and allocated among several projects.

Owing to client-server technology used to drive VIP Task Manager, multiple project planning and reporting can be carried out by all workgroup members in real-time regime, so there is no need to publish multiple projects progress charts or collect progress information, as all participants will simultaneously collaborate within one system. VIP Task Manager provides your team with wide electronic cooperation capabilities, however there are possibilities to print out and publish multiple projects reports in a traditional way.

VIP Task Manager allows you to import multiple project tasks from MS Outlook. Also you are enabled to import multiple project tasks from previous products such as VIP Team To-Do List and VIP Organizer.

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