Project Management Roles

BrightWork pmPoint makes it easy to get everyone on the same page when it comes to managing the work of your organization. With various views, dashboards, and reports, project managers and team members know what they need to get done and by when. For executives and project leaders, they have one place to go to look across the group or organization's projects.

BrightWork pmPoint proactively enables and supports the 3 main roles in a typical project-based or matrix organization:

Team Member

With automated work assignment emails and My Work dashboards, team members never lose sight of their work and no longer have to prepare status reports. Apart from actually doing their work, all team members have to do is keep their work items up-to-date in a web form or an excel like datasheet.

Find assigned work e.g. via email notifications or My Work dashboards
Do assigned work - work can even be done inside pmPoint, e.g. complete a risk profile
Update progress on work assignments e.g. update multiple items simultaneously through a datasheet

Project Manager

Project managers can be up and running with work assigned in a project work space in minutes. They can access project status data with multiple reports and intervene where necessary by reassigning work. Obtaining, creating and distributing project reports is greatly simplified by pmPoint’s reporting infrastructure.

Start each project with the right amount of process
- Select a location in the project hierarchy and create a new project workspace using one of the supplied single project templates (selected according to the amont of process you need for a particular project or situation)
- Plan the project:
  - Using a WBS SharePoint list (optionally start in Microsoft Project and import into the list )
    and/or
  - Using custom SharePoint lists enhanced for Project Management
- Notify team members of their work
Manage each project to a successful completion
- Track the progress of the project
- Re-plan and make adjustments to the project
- Report on the project to team members and stake-holder
- Tailor the project work space as needed
- Close out the project

Program Managers and Management

Program managers can manage multiple projects by rolling –up project status data from multiple projects to dashboards, filtering the data as needed. They can also schedule the automatic distribution of different reports to the various stakeholders in the organization.

Cross project infrastructure setup
- Review the structure options and decide on the structure needed to manage many projects
- Setup the structure and process needed
- Setup extra / advanced reporting across the projects (over and above the reporting provided in the supplied templates)
Cross project management
- Harvest and reuse best practices from existing projects or templates
- Customize the project portal to meet the evolving needs of Program Management
Track and manage across multiple projects
- Track across multiple projects
- Manage across multiple projects with lists and cross-project report