To succeed with projects functional team
members have to be very effective in
managing their assignments, predicting task
completion dates, and in communicating
clearly to their peers and managers. These
requirements may become especially
challenging in cases where the functional
team members work on several projects at once.
The Yoxel PCM helps the functional team
members to manage ever increasing work load
and project related information communicated
via email.
- Take Email-Requests Under Control
The Yoxel PCM formalizes tracking of
requests that come via email. An
"incoming request" is an
email received by the functional
team member, communicating a task
assignment. Once the incoming
request is received, the functional
team member's PCM keeps track of the
request and allows to specify
acceptance, the progress state, and
commitment date. The progress and
the completion date predictions can
easily be communicated back to the
request sender.
- Focus On Your Tasks The Yoxel PCM
provides flexible task management
capabilities integrated with the
request tracking infrastructure.
Each "incoming request"
can be associated with one or more
personal tasks and accurately
estimated and scheduled. In the
Calendar view a functional team
member can mark task progress,
rearrange task priorities, change
estimates, and add new tasks with
minimum effort and distraction from work.
- Plan Accurately The Calendar view
is also a flexible personal time
planner that allows functional team
members to accurately predict when
they can satisfy an incoming
request. - It can automatically
deduct your meetings and
appointments from the work time. -
Use of checkpoints allows to add
gaps to your schedule for
unforeseeable tasks. - Tasks can be
arranged by categories with deferred
tasks not showing in the Calendar at
all.
- Communicate Efficiently in Email
Channels The PCM provides a
communication channel for each
request that it tracks. All email
communication related to a request
is gathered in this channel and
presented as a hybrid email/chat
panel. Such organization of project
related email ensures that all the
request updates and relevant email
communication are kept together and
can be easily located just by
examining the request itself.