Tip of the Day: Projectplace – Take Control of your Project via your iPhone

Published: 01.15.10 in Tip of the Day, iPhone by Skrufve (link to original post - this is just a translation)

Do you work in Projects? You might already know about Projectplace, a useful online service (per per use) for project planning, structuring, communication and document collaboration. There are different editions of the service that simplify project management in everything from single projects to the company's entire project portfolio. I have personally used Projectplace in a project during the Autumn and can highly recommend the tool! Everyone - whether in house or from an external partner - had access to all the information they needed.

Now for my actual tip: if you are a Projectplace user and have an iPhone you can enjoy the service straight to your iPhone through the Projectplace iPhone app (free, the link will open iTunes). Unfortunately, I don't have an ongoing project to show screen shots from, so I took some from my old project and borrowed some screen shots to give you a picture of the app.

In other words, you get access to all your project documentation - straight in your iPhone. This can be invaluable when it comes to accessing your information and being able to make quick decisions. Opening ordinary MS Office files is a diddle and you get a special view for your latest documents. I miss having a view for all the documents - but you can get that by just entering a space in the search box and then search.

It's really easy to communicate with the project members through the Projectplace app - there are functions for commenting, guest books, push notifications, chat and you can of course call them as well. I highly recommend the Projectplace app if you want to take control of your project straight through your iPhone!

The Projectplace App (free, opens in iTunes)

Projectplace.com (pay per use service, needed to use the iPhone app)

New version of Projectplace Ideas live

I'm impressed by the whole team effort:) It seems to have been a smooth transition and the information should all be there.

Please let me know what you think!

All the best,
Karolina

Upgrade update part 2 - database migrated

Ok, now all the data from the old version has been migrated to the new version. It might still look a bit empty as the activity feeds will get information from the new version activities only. I'm trying to set the layout up to show the most important information first. Let me know what you think once it goes live....There's still some configuration and redirecting and other stuff to work on...

I'm off to test!

/Karolina

Upgrade update part 1 and sneak preview of NEW Projectplace Ideas

Like I said, we are going down (about now) to upgrade Projectplace Ideas to a new version of the platform. I'm all excited and nervous. I hope that everything will go just as smoothly as it looks in the plan. Updates will be forthcoming as I get more information from the people who actually perform the update.

Here a preview of what Projectplace Ideas will look like after the update.

Any questions or comments? Post them here, I will be here. Or tweet me @ppideas :)

Upgrades today at Projectplace Ideas

We will be down from 9am CET and hopefully up later in the day.

Fingers crossed:)

/Karolina

New Year and Projectplace for iPhone BETA

Beginning a new blog post is a bit like the new year. Or the beginning of a new project. All that white page or time streching out in front of you.

New Year's is my favourite holiday of the year. There are many reasons for this, like champagne, friends, sparklies, and fireworks, but I think the main reason is that feeling of starting fresh. The summarising of the previous and the sense of adventure in not quite knowing what is going to happen next.

Exciting stuff is underway. On Monday we will take down Projectplace Ideas and upgrade the platform to a new and improved version. Hopefully this can be done over day and you should be able to use Projectplace Ideas as usual on Tuesday...

The new version of Projectplace for iPhone is out. This is a beta version and we would like to have as much feedback as possible. Post it in the iPhone category and i will make sure the labs team look at it.

Projectplace Ideas a year later - 8% have status implemented

Today, I have closed some of the ideas and bugs that were implemented and fixed in last night's release. I realised that it's been approximately a year since we launched Projectplace Ideas. So here are some statistics

Total no of users: 21,637
Total no of contributions: 2,817 (votes, comments and ideas)
Total no of ideas: 625
Percent of ideas implemented: 8%

It's been a fun year. A lot of internal processes have had to be fine tuned and in some cases even reinvented. I feel confident that we will see a higher rate of ideas implemented next year.

I'm now looking forward to mid January, when we release a new version of Projectplace Ideas. It will look better but most importantly be easier to use and contain even more information for you.