 Clarizen has become a key part of our success by helping us streamline and monitor communications and our progressive stages of product development. 
Krista Sanders, Creative Director,
Stone Cobra
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Mar. 09
The Clarizen Implementation Plan
Regardless if you are an existing customer, current prospect or simply a devoted reader of these monthly newsletters, at some point or other you face the challenge of introducing a new solution, such as Clarizen, to your team. After all, it’s not about technology, advanced features or a cool web 2.0 interface – it’s about disrupting the status quo that each and every one of us gets nervous about, to some extent.
In the purchase process, the quantifiable and explicit factors of the evaluation process are easy – simply list them all in a spreadsheet, assign weighted averages and their respective scores and your RFP is complete. The more implicit and challenging aspect of introducing a new solution to your organization is the team buy-in. Will the team use the new solution? Will they resist it? Will they fall back soon after the purchase to out-of-context email as a means to collaborate?
As the champion evaluating Clarizen for your team, no doubt you are apprehensive about whether the team will embrace the new solution and whether you will achieve even half of the projected targets you set in place when doing your ROI calculations (If you have gotten this far).
Which brings me to the Clarizen Implementation Plan. Read more...
Product Updates: Issue Tracking, Risks & Expenses in Clarizen 3.0
Now that Work vs. Duration was made available in Clarizen 2.8 earlier this month, we are excited to unveil our next grande release due out in May. As common with our other Clarizen X.0 releases, 3.0 will include numerous new features, including Issue Tracking, Risk Management and Expense Management and some more exciting usability enhancements.
Issue Tracking includes reporting issues as they relate to any work item in your projects such as general issues, bugs and new feature requests. Risk Management, is a powerful set of fields associated with tracking different risks, allowing users to assign these risks to one or more work items and auto caculate their level. Expense Management will allow users to report any expenses they incur and report them in expense sheets, similar to the current time sheets available in Clarizen. Travel, supplies and other expense categories will be tagged to the related work items and be reflected in the respective reports, including reimbursements, billing and auditing.
Also in 3.0, several usability enhancements including the ability for users to save frequently accessed reports to their Home Page. Another example, users will be able to instantly access frequent actions such as inviting new users or creating a new project from any page within the application without needing to go back to the Home Page each time.
Clarizen Buzz: Clarizen Taking SaaS-based PM Up-Market
“...collaborative, web-based systems offer benefits over traditional project management approaches. SaaS is inherently collaborative since it allows any user of an application to access information anytime from anywhere.
One of the big draws claimed by Clarizen is the way its software can automate simultaneous contributions to a single master plan. Via SaaS this also can easily be made visible to anyone that is supporting a project, be they an internal project team member, a customer or a supplier.”
Read more...
Additional Advanced Training Every Wednesday
Only a month after introducing 'Clarizen Advanced Training with Josh' on Fridays 11:00am PST, due to the huge response, we are adding a second free session on Wednesdays 11:00am PST. The user-driven session is an open forum for those who are interested in digging deeper into advanced functionality or have open questions about our solutions.
To register for an upcoming session click here.
Welcome to some of our latest customers!
  
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