How To Measure The Project Return

Published on April 20, 2011 by Miguel Fernandez Calero

When you talk about the return of a project, your mind immediately thinks of the economic benefit to be obtained. But return is a broad concept that, depending on the type of project, may include more qualitative and intangible aspects, such as the acquired knowledge, the achieved operational improvements or even the “social return”, derived from those benefits that a project can bring to the environment where it is developed. For instance, that can be especially relevant in solidarity projects like those developed by NGOs within their social function.

However, no doubt that, in many projects, there is an essential explicit goal to achieve profitability. The clearest example that we can find is one in which a project is developed based on a price. This price can be either previously agreed with a client or established as the budget of the project by the organization that is undertaking it.

Time: The Importance Of Its Management and Monitoring

Published on April 14, 2011 by Rosa Alnasser

This week we will continue to introduce the new reports that we released in Doolphy recently. This time, it is the turn of the new “Time Report”.

We have already talked about time management in previous posts, as we believe that it is one of the main challenges any worker faces in his or her day to day work. We can summarize the rules or tips to achieve the goal of managing time in an optimized way in 3 points:

Priority, Urgency, Status and Progress of Tasks

Published on April 7, 2011 by Miguel Fernandez Calero

A project, contrary to what one might think, is not a simple, lineal sequence of tasks. There are often overlapping tasks within a project or even between different projects. In these cases, it is essential to have clear criteria to help us choosing in which tasks should we focus our efforts in every moment; that is, we need a way to analyze the priority, urgency, status and progress of the different tasks.

Priority and urgency are concepts that sometimes are confused but which are related to very different issues. Urgency –a clearer concept– has to do with the existing time restrictions (ie. the estimated time to fulfill it) and the need to meet deadlines.

On the other hand, priority is a more complex variable but it’s also more important. When setting the priority of each task, different aspects should be taken into account:

Do I Really Know How I Spend My Time?

Published on March 31, 2011 by Rosa Alnasser

Many times we look back to see if we have made good use of our time, whether in our leisure moments –as when we’re back from a trip–, or in our work. But, when speaking about projects, why is it so necessary to know how I spend my time? Having this

information will be very useful at different stages during a project development. In this regard, we can emphasize 3 big benefits:

The Gantt Chart, Your Best Friend in Project Management

Published on March 24, 2011 by Rafa Lombardo

Hi!

We have previously talked about the main key points in Project Management and how planning is vital to achieve all the goals of our projects. So today we want to present one of the main tools used for effective project and task management, the Gantt Chart.

Benefits of the SaaS Project Management Software

Published on March 11, 2010 by Rafa Lombardo

So far, we have written about our new application and about the model in which it is based. However, we haven’t touched the reason why it is important for a company to have a tool to manage its projects. Given the current situation of all companies, we all find the necessity of working harder, faster and in several projects at the same time, optimizing expenses in order to obtain the best profitability possible. To achieve this goal the best movement is to learn how to organize our resources and employee time to maximize the functionality of our company. This is not easy though. When a company deals with several projects at the same time, and is possibly composed by a multidisciplinary or geographically distributed team, communication issues may arise. E-mail, telephone, meetings can be used to improve the situation but they aren’t necessarily the best possible way.

This issue is addressed by a number of software solutions such as video conferences, instant messaging, synchronization tools, social networks, etc. However today we want to comment on a tool that is gaining a lot of traction lately: the project management software on demand.

Let’s Talk About SaaS…

Published on February 19, 2010 by The Doolphy Team

In recent posts we have presented our tool, Doolphy, and as you may remember we said that it is based on the SaaS model. Let’s get some insights into what this model means since it is getting a lot of buzz lately.

There are many definitions of SaaS, but this one is the preferred by us:

SaaS is a software distribution model by the means of which an information technology company (IT) provides the services of maintenance, daily operation and user support for certain software

With this model, the traditional concept of software license disappears and users subscribe to the service. In that sense, the customer just pays for the use of the service not having to incur in expenses related to hardware or software maintenance. The first direct benefit from this is that it is possible to keep the software expenses to a constant level, and some times these expenses are lower than in traditional software.

The Doolphy’s Blog is born!

Published on January 28, 2010 by The Doolphy Team

Hello everyone!

We are proud to announce our new blog, The Doolphy blog!

After many months of hard work, the Doolphy Project Management Software (www.doolphy.com) is very close to hit the market. As we have been doing so far, we still believe in web-based tools. In that sense, Doolphy, our new product, is based on Egestia, our previous project management software that we developed a long time ago. This time has allowed us to identify the actual needs that you may find when you use software to manage your projects of both personal and professional.

Doolphy improves, renews and optimizes all Egestia’s features. Our goal is to launch an usable, participative and safe application that is suited to your needs. With Doolphy you will manage and track your projects and control their associated costs. We want to give you just the best tool that provides you with the best chances of success for your projects.

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