Project Management Software

Why TeamSide?

TeamSide was developed by a succesful company executive, not by a sofware engineer. Therefore it is not a mere project planning tool. TeamSide applies everything Affor teaches in its seminars. We differentiate ourselves by emphasizing:

• The business aspects of projects.
• A high level vision of project management.
• The need for people to have a clear vision of what they are working for.

Our package is neither a time tracking software nor a task management tool. It contains high level concepts such as:

• Project framework
• Risk analysis
• Key objectives
• Performance indicators
• Team building
• Global tasks repository
• Milestones, checklists.

Core Features

Easy and accurate milestone reviews

• The goals achievements can be measured based on satisfactory anwers to a number of key questions.
• Those questions are grouped in 'milestone check-lists', similar to gate reviews, but peformed much more frequently (typically 10-15 milestones in a project). The percentage of satisfactory questions is a better indicator than time.
• The questions are based on templates of best practices or industry benchmarks. They are customizable in the sense that a project manager may create his own milestones and include additional points that are important for his program.
• Evidence of satisfactory anwsers can be stored as a memo or attachment. Corrective actions can be initiated and stored, with task owner and deadline.

Emphasis on work-package validation

• Work-packages are required to have a strong validation procedure to answer the question: How do I know that my milestone has the right quality? An other questionnaire, based on best industry practices can be created from templates and attached to a particular work package. These questionnaires can be also custom designed by the program team at time of kick-off.

Individual performance monitoring

• The primary purpose of the package is to let the users report key check points, monitor their performance and review them.
• We tried to have performance reviews not only for program managers and workpackage owners, but also for other team members. For example, one feature allows people to enter each month their 3 key objectives, and report their status at the end of each month.
  Reports and balanced score cards can be created and generated at any time. Reports showing the personal progress can be also created.

Performance and quality document repository

• The package includes a vast repository storing elementary data (such as the answer to a question). It also offers the possibility to store comments and documents (quality and performance oriented documents: the system is not intented to replace a program file management system.)
• Being a repository, it is especially suitable to monitor continous improvement.

Benefits

• It helps people 'know what they are shooting for' (50% of the work !)
• It obliges people to have clear-cut specifications for the work they are taking or giving to others.
• It reminds people the 'best practices' in a user friendly way (People who read procedures are very small exception...)
• It allows working step by step and reduces the risk to carry a large number of 'unvalidated' or poorly validated tasks
• It encourages anticipation.

Additional Features

• Risk analysis management
• List of open issues (the list of 'little things' that come out of any program meeting)
• Automatic email reminder (if a task or a milestone has not been completed on time, it sends a reminder with a direct link to the faulty task)

Program Platform

• Easy to learn and navigate
• HTML interface (to allow simple deployment and maintenance)
• Based on a RDBMS database such as SqlServer or Oracle, hence extremely easy to interface with any computer system.

TeamSide software is in currently in alpha phase, and will be released for beta shortly. If you are interested in receiving a beta version, or you require a custom software solution, please contact us.