SHARING THE JOY – PROGRESS REPORT Oversing works. We are starting to use it to m

SHARING THE JOY – PROGRESS REPORT

Oversing works.

We are starting to use it to manage our business. Using Oversing to build Oversing so to speak.

Now, there is still a lot of work to be done.

Imagine: Enterprise project accounting with powerful workflow manager, your favorite CRM, every project management tool you can find, and Facebook put in a cauldron and stewed together. It’s not a trivial application. But it’s creative. And with our sort of ‘workspace’ we can build all sorts of user interfaces for all sorts of management needs.

It’s so much better than I had envisioned.

VIEWS: FROM ACTIVITY TO PLAN

1) Your Activity Stream (like FB news stream for your business – and in project work this really does matter)

2) Your Alerts (messages from the workflow engine that let you know you have something to approve or other, and messages from other users – and like fB you reply or collaborate in context of a profile.)

3) A List (table) of your tasks so that you can sort them.

4) A Tree view (Ribbons, or narrow index cards?) so that you can organize your work and your projects.

5) An Agile Board view of your work or project.

6) A Gantt Chart of your project (if you need such a thing – some of us do).

You can manage one project at a time or a hundred. No difference.

Each view can also be filtered by the sequence

1) Idea – Things you haven’t committed to. But want to remember.

2) Backlog – Things that you commit to but will work on in priority order.

3) Board – things you are currently working on, and trying to finish.

4) Archive – things that you’ve finished.

The workflow engine can be customized for whatever is on the Board. So the moment you start work on something, your can create your own ‘Agile Board’ or Kanban Board, and work an issue at a time.

We started with these Categories of projects:

1) Sales and CRM (Goals, Leads, and Opportunities)

2) Recruiting (goals, openings and candidates)

3) Revenue Forecasting (Time Periods and Revenue Commits)

4) Delivery of Project Work including

…..i) WBS Projects (Phases and time)

…..ii) Agile and Kanban Projects (iterations and queues)

…..iii) Jobs and Work Orders (Production work)

…..iv) Tickets and Queues (support requests)

5) Management Initiatives and Career Development

6) Accounting Periods. (Yes we manage accounting periods like projects – cause they are. )

So you either load a template for a project for any given business problem, or you sort of compose a project with the different ‘panels’ you need, and save that workspace.

Oversing sort of LOOKS like all these different applications that are slightly similar, but underneath the hood it’s all tasks, relations, and a project journal and ledger, and a workspace for composing the kind of UI needed to solve each business problem.

Now, our killer feature is really resource allocation, and forward management of your business. But that doesn’t mean the rest of the app isn’t just crazy fun to work with. 🙂

Cheers.