Project Management with Alfresco

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Project management with Alfresco: not only Gantt charts November 5, 2013 Oksana Kurysheva / ITD Systems

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Long-term knowledge-intensive project


Is it possible to define a workflow for such a project?


More convenient real life examples

• Implementing huge IT-project • Specific case in insurance company • Building construction • New product development and bringing

to the market


How do we manage such projects?

or


What is the best way to do that?

Follow Adaptive Case Management best practices

• Project data is a focal point around which processes are arranged

• Processes are determined at runtime and attached to the project


How can Alfresco help us? • Use Alfresco Share sites for storing

project data • Use Activiti BPM engine for processes

and tasks execution


Project Site: Dashboard


Processes attached to the project • Grouping tasks into projects


Project timeline and schedule • Workflows due dates integrated into site

calendar


Document library • Storing files for the project


Check lists: working with milestones • Track the status of the project


Conversations • Phone calls, Text messages, Emails


Project Team • Custom roles for team members


Contacts • List of external participants


Summary Using Alfresco you can manage knowledge-intensive “unpredictable” projects when Gantt Chart cannot be drawn.


Summary Project site aggregates the information project owner needs to make right decision: - Tasks and schedule - Documents - Conversations - People involved


Summary


What’s next? • Project manager dashboard to track all

projects • Project Cash Flow • Networked org charts of external

participants • Improving Calendar features


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Project Management with Alfresco