Project profitability is a very serious matter that worries us all. We have talked about it before in some posts like, for example, “Increase the profitability of your projects in 6 Steps“ or “How To measure the project return“.
Every project needs a research about its viability and profitability and Doolphy won’t forget it, and that’s why it provides financial reports to you.
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With this post, we want to resume the series on the sectors that benefit from the use of Doolphy in managing their projects. This time is the turn of technological projects and companies in the ICT sector, for example those engaged in software or mobile application development.
In past installments, we brought to you 2 success cases in this sector: NetLiga and Yxcon Proyectos. In both cases, we could see some elements that are common in most technological projects and how Doolphy helps them in their management. Now we’ll go over the different phases of the life cycle of project management.
Planning:
There is no doubt that planning is an essential element in the success or failure of a project, but in those projects that are associated to technology this is especially important.
Leaders who are concerned about their teams have wondered about this issue at length. There isn’t any magic way to achieve it but there are some pieces of advice that you can take into account in order to accomplish this goal.
But first a word of caution, It is essential for you to know your team before you can adopt measures for making them happy in their jobs and make them enjoy their tasks.
NetLiga is a dream that is becoming true. The team has wanted to share their experience with all of us. The current economic situation prevents its members from working exclusively on it, and they have to invest their free time in the project. Because of that it’s almost impossible to manage the project development on a fixed schedule, and thus they have no choice but to work remotely and share everything over the Cloud. As you can imagine coordinating the team under these circumstances is quite a challenge, especially when efficiency and quality are key.
That’s why they starting looking around for a tool that could help them to manage their project and they had to discard many options. Some were too complicated and required lots of effort to work with them. Others needed to be installed in their development machines, which meant they could not use them inmediately. And finally, others were just plain too expensive for them.
Doolphy (D): How did you faced up the situation of knowing that you needed some tool in order to collaborate and manage?
NetLiga (NL): We were about to give up the search, with the conclusion that there was no tool that could satisfy our needs.
Projects profitability is a major concern for all types of companies working in “project mode”, such as web developers, marketing agencies, designers, architects, etc. Today, we want to take a look to some of the keys that we consider fundamental to improve the profitability of projects in 6 “easy” steps:
“There are 3 things in life that never come back: time, words and opportunities”
I’m sure that you have read or heard this quote a lot of times. It looks like all of us know about the importance of time. However, how many times do we waste it? Maybe, we shouldn’t think too hard about this question or we can get scared.
In this post, we’ll identify the most famous time thieves. You should know that knowing them is the first step to fight them.
Great news! Today we are happy to announce that Doolphy, your project management software, can be integrated with Zyncro, the enterprise social network. The resulting solution is a social intranet that unifies projects, documents and communication.
Zyncro provides many collaboration features:
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This week we want to continue writing about the different profiles who participate in project management. This time, it is the turn of customers and how they can contribute and be more involved in the projects that other companies are developing for them, thanks to Doolphy.
To understand it better, we are going to explain David’s experience. Louis (Commercial Director at a specialized website development company) has been contacted by David to make a website for David’s business. Once the budget and the project plan have been approved, David wants to be kept informed about its progress in a daily basis.
That is why Louis has created a Doolphy user for his customer, David. Thanks to the role and permission system, Louis assigned David a customized role based on the “guest” predefined role. Now, David can track the progress of the project, and at the same time, Louis can keep in strict secret some internal aspects like cost per hour of his employees or additional sensible data about other customers.
The International Women’s Day is celebrated today to commemorate their struggle in order to participate in society and in their complete development as a person, enjoying similar conditions as men do. (Source: Wikipedia).
From the Doolphy Blog, we want to pay tribute to all of them and in this case, we will talk about mothers in particular, since in some countries this festivity is celebrated today.
According to the report done by Randstad consulting, New Zealand (45%), Sweden (42%) and Denmark (40%) are the countries with more companies run by women. While, at the opposite end we find India (21%), Turkey (20%) and Japan (17%).
Whenever I read such statements I remember my mother and her ability to lead “organization”, that is to say, her family. I think she, like most mothers, reflect many of the qualities sought in a good leader and / or project manager. Take into account that, for me, my mother is the best, so I could not help that some of my personal experience remains patent :P:
Some days ago, we could watch the Oscar Academy Awards’ ceremony. And, as we also did the last year, we would like to write a special post about this specific kind of projects: the organization of events. To do it, we’ve talked with one of our “older” customers: Avantclub. We have had the opportunity to know first-hand how they use Doolphy to organize unique events in an exceptional way. You can read the complete interview below:
Doolphy (D): How would you describe your experience with Doolphy?
Avantclub (AV): In a word: excellent. We have found in Doolphy the application that allows to control all aspects of event management. It’s a full-featured and very easy tool. In a few days and without any training required, new collaborators that join Avantclub can use Doolphy without problems.
