![]() ![]() ![]() To meet the need for a simple yet efficient project management visualization tool, Bellevue-based software company Office Timeline has developed a desktop add-in that anyone can use to generate summary views of Gantt charts and timelines right inside PowerPoint. With all the regular reports, product roadmaps and high-level presentations required of project planners, even the most experienced ones find effectively communicating project plans to be time-consuming and daunting without the proper means. No matter the line of work in which a project manager operates, the successful planning and execution of a project is definitely a demanding endeavor. Professional-Looking Project Visuals Made Effortlessly With Office Timeline, project visuals are generated, customized and updated with only a few clicks. Gantt Chart and Timeline Maker for Business PresentationsĬreating unique, impressive business presentations shouldn’t take forever. ![]() My friends from Office Timeline have some useful thoughts along these lines: Keep it simple! Keep is short! Keep it relevant! And keep it visual! You are wasting your time, you aren’t wasting anyone else’s time because they won’t be read, but you are definitely wasting your time. ![]() They won’t be read, no one has the time or interest to do this, and they won’t be valued and worse, when they do contain project critical information, they will be ignored. Putting together fantastically accurate and detailed reports and sending them to anyone and everyone, is most definitely not communicating, especially if the ‘Right Person’ happens to be an Executive. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing’. ‘The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. The challenge is to communicate the right way but so many project managers communicate the wrong way, or try to and spectacularly fail in their efforts.Ī well-known project management law, Cohn’s law, sums this up so well. You are busy as well, of course, but they are really busy. You have a project, you need Executive support for that project and the Executives want to know what is happening to the investment in change that they have approved through that project, but they are busy. Right Information, Right Time, Right Person and in the Right Way ![]()
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