Project Management Templates - Commitment Manager
An out of the SharePoint template to manage projects with a small amount of process
Business Challenge
You need something more than managing by exception, but don't want to use a full formal project management lifecycle. All you are interested in is Commitments (Goals), Issues and Actions (Tasks).
The "CIA", Commitment – Issue – Action process is a good example of a semi-structured process where you want to manage more than the issues by managing goals and tasks, but you do not need a fully structured site with a more extensive process. Other variants on this theme include the SIR process (project Statement, Issue and Risks) or the AIR process (Assumptions, Issues and Requirements), etc.
Solution Description
The Commitment Manager template in pmPoint is designed to support projects that have a low level of process. The Commitments (Goals), Issues and Actions (Tasks) template is useful for a semi-structured project where you want to manage more than the issues by adding in goal and task lists in SharePoint, but you do not need a fully structured site with a more extensive process.
BrightWork enables managers to use SharePoint to manage project commitments, issues and tasks through the creation of work items, with email notification on item assignment. A special web part allows managers to track the progress of work items, located in various webs, subwebs and lists, from one location. Team members can use the same web part to see all their work in the one location. External users can query the progress of an item by supplying the item’s unique reference number.