Collaborative Planning
Clarizen automates simultaneous contributions from various team experts to one master plan
Clarizen's collaborative planning allows you to dramatically accelerate the speed of your planning phase, while ensuring that the overall plan is created by the most skilled and accountable staff.
A project manager may invite others to co-plan the project and work together by DELEGATING WORK ITEMS and utilizing the PROJECT LIFE CYCLE DRAFTING MODES.
As a result, you can:
- Increase collaboration across teams by working together to create the master plan
- Create joint-milestones and intersections between individually planned sections and the master plan
- Increase accuracy of the planning tasks, timelines and details by delegating the planning of the various sections to the people on your team who are both experts in those areas as well as responsible for carrying out those tasks and milestones
- Manage change instantly by enabling the entire team access to Clarizen’s automatically updated task progress notifications, notes, discussions and dependency conflicts
- Maintain each individual section of the master plan in the secure “drafting” mode until you are ready to open the plan to be viewed by your team
- Enable each of the collaborating team members to upload and share information (documents, notes, discussions, etc) in the right context of the shared work item
- Ensure that all project information (documents, notes, discussions, etc) is accessible to everyone on the team (not just the project manager)
- Manage projects across distributed teams or multiple organizations by utilizing Clarizen’s “shortcuts”, which link tasks and milestones from one individual project plan to another