Advantages

Collaborative Planning

Clarizen enables the project manager to invite others to co-plan the project concurrently by delegating work items and utilizing the project life cycle drafting mode.

Instant Gratification

Clarizen’s online saving mode allows users to immediately view the changes each person makes to the project plan, allowing them to instantly view dependencies or analyze the overall impact of a particular task.

Use Clarizen’s Roadmap to collaborate with team members and deal quickly and effectively with potential schedule conflicts.

Streamlined Participation

Eliminate all occurrences of team friction by empowering the entire project team to take an active role in the implementation and execution of the project.

Clarizen provides built-in tools that facilitate collaboration, participation, communication and most of all – accountability - so that every task is constantly viewed, assigned, scheduled and observed either from the Clarizen product or from inside users’ existing desktop applications:

MS OUTLOOK INTEGRATION

• Clarizen’s Outlook add-on enables resources to receive alerts and notifications directly to their inbox and can respond with progress reports directly from the MS Outlook email environment

AUTODESK AUTOCAD & SOLIDWORKS CAD INTEGRATION

• Clarizen’s integration with Autodesk’s AutoCAD product and the CAD system by Solidworks enables engineers to review their work items, tasks and projects from inside their existing enterprise systems. CAD resources can update tasks, add notes, comments, upload documents and communicate other project-related updates directly from inside the CAD environments.

Distributed Project Management

Not all projects are completed inside the closed loop of a single organization or location – many projects in today’s business environment are completed by multi-corporate teams, consisting of resources that are distributed both by organization and by geography.

Clarizen allows users to integrate all parties into a single project source, while at the same time allowing each different unit to manage their own separate view and work plan in a secured environment.

The joint milestones, tasks and assignments are visibly shared by the different teams and are all integrated together to display scheduling impacts and work progress at the various intersecting points.

Seeing the Forest and the Trees

Project management is the place where high level planning and attention to the smallest of details coexist and depend on one another.

ONLINE project management takes this process one step further, and Clarizen’s product provides a solution that enables the simultaneous display of both high level plans as well as their low level details – all in one screen with no scrolling!!

Clarizen’s robust system also provides automatic updates between dependencies (even if they are in different projects), as well as providing a solution to view potential scheduling conflicts.

Since the progress of tasks is instantly reflected in the project roadmap in the Clarizen application, all the project indicators are automatically turned on so that any member of the team (not just the project manager) can view and see instantly whether a milestone is at risk for delays BEFORE it becomes an actual delay.

This ability to instantly manage changes to the project, resource, budget or timeline environments, as well as the ability to manage the consequences of these changes, is at the core of the Clarizen solution.

Personalized Dependency Change Impact Views

During various projects, certain items will change – causing unexpected delays in the various dependencies of that project, task or resource.

Managing these changes is what keeps a project on target and on budget.

Clarizen enables each user to define their own personal “Dependency Change Impact View” where they can see all the milestones and tasks that relate to their work items and their projects, enabling them to effectively respond to a change in any of their work items without missing a step.