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James, thanks for providing

James, thanks for providing your readers with this thoughtful article. As CEO of LiquidPlanner, I like to think we are leading the charge in terms of re-thinking the Project Management paradigm. Having worked at Microsoft in the Microsoft Project Business unit, I was able to experience firsthand the pain customers like Scott Ellis feel. It’s an omnipresent sentiment and there are major shifts in the way people are approaching project management.

I believe there are three key elements in the transformation of project management: first, it is the understanding that it is a truly a social problem. It’s about people doing things for other people, who do things for yet other people – that’s social! Second, the tool sets need to be integrated; more than anything teams need one source of truth. And third, we have to fix the broken math used to forecast schedules. It is absolutely critical that we stop using simple addition and start using probability and statistics in our scheduling engines.

LiquidPlanner delivers on all three of these transformations and we invite people to take it for spin with our free trial.

James, I am the CEO of

James,
I am the CEO of Clarizen and I think that the Project Management market is going to grow dramatically. The "old paradigm” of project management is focused on planning and it is serving the professional project managers. Only a small fraction of the people that are managing projects are using project management tools today. Managers of any kind need to get much better visibility and be accountable for their delivery. The main challenge for a project management tool is to help managers to do their work not just plan it. For the execution of the project, the team need to be on board, they own the project data, the files, the emails, the work, the status. So, creating a tool that can be used by the team is the only way to help managers to do their job in a much better way.

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Maybe you can list all the

Maybe you can list all the characteristics of an ideal online Project Management tool in a future article. I think this would be very beneficial for Project Managers out there. I am currently scavenging for such an article in order to publish it on PM Hut.

My non objective 2 cents:

My non objective 2 cents: Clarizen
provides the highest value as far as I am concerened for both small and large organization. The biggest pain in implementing a project management solution in any organization is getting the project status during the life of a project. In the past I had led implementations in very large organizations with tools such as Primavera. Although the tool itself could be very robust, we could never get the full value as the users in charge of performing the tasks in a project were always reluctant to update the progress of their work.
Clarizen allows you to very easily implement an optimized progress reporting mechanism in your team, be they in the organization or external to your organic organization. Clarizen provides a real execution engine for your projects, allowing you to measure your key performance indicators at any time during the proejct life time.
Clarizen is very intuitive and easy to use and provides both the value that an experienced Project Manager would look for as well as great value for someone without a rich background in project management.

I can partially agree with

I can partially agree with Charles here. As the founder of Wrike I see three problems with traditional project management tools, like MS Project.

First, there’s a gap between strategic plans and daily agenda. In many companies strategic plans, quarterly plans, project plans and daily to-do lists of team members are separated. All of these plans should be a part of one master plan to provide real-time visibility into a company.

Second, there’s a gap between e-mail and project management software that made project management software inefficient. E-mail is still the most widely-used tool in project management, and at the same time traditional tools, like Microsoft Project, ignore this fact. It means that project managers have to constantly copy information from e-mails into a project management system and then back to e-mails.

Then, the third gap is between project management software and Web 2.0 collaboration tools. Web 2.0 apps, like wikis, leverage collective intelligence and emerging structures. That makes them very powerful. Project management software and process can benefit a lot from these principles.

Here, at Wrike, we wanted to invent a tool that would help businesses to deal with all the three problems. You are very welcome to see our software in action.

Project Management Through SaaS Based Tools Is A Good Idea

As Avinoam said, "the main challenge for a project management tool is to help managers to do their work not just plan it." The best tool should allow the team to provide frequent feedback about their progress, and in a way that is easy for them without adding time and other hassles to their standard work. The tool should promote visibility and awareness across the entire team to avoid information silos. One thing that can really help is using a project management tool through Software as a Service (SaaS). It's more flexible than a desktop application, and fits the distributed workforce better. Having the entire system online makes it "easier to use, and cheaper to try", as James said, and it also helps to ensure instant deployment, quick implementation, and lower IT costs all around.
Timesheet software like Web TimeSheet allows project managers to track actual work hours against project and task estimates - with real-time reporting and integration options so you can better manage your project timelines and costs.

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