Online Management Tools Excel At Empowering Project Teams
Web-based project collaboration software has come of age. Although many first-generation products vanished with the dot-com bust, a core of vendors and users continued to refine the tools, experiment and learn how to best use them. They have learned a lot and barriers to adoption now are really starting to fall as greater availability to broadband Internet access lets people work easily with databases through Web browsers from anywhere.
The train of Web-based planning and control is starting to leave the station, says Saied Kartam, Denver, Colo.-based CH2M Hills southwest manager for project controls and global technology leader for planning and scheduling. It is going to be a major differentiating factor, he says. If clients dont see Web-based capability in your planning and controls, they wont select you.