10.1 Description
Common requirements for project management tools
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Supporting the 4 phases of a project: plan, organize, control, supervise
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Simple, intuitive user interface, pleasant user experience: the focus is the project and its progress not the tool itself
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Support for multiple users with different permission sets
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Support for customization: projects range from construction to IT, one tool to manage all
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Support for remote access
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Manages the information real time
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Have reporting features
Properties to be taken into account when choosing a system
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Only 10% of software costs are accountable for introduction, 90% is spent on maintenance => choose an easily and cost-effectively maintainable system
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IT support should be available for the maintenance period
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Easy to use, intuitive, no high costs on training; standard methods, processes are to be supported out of the box
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Functionality meets above needs