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Sync Your Project And Work Together

By Dominik Sapinski
Oct 26, 2009
In our specialized world everything must be perfect. From a small thing like a mobile phone up to a brand new Aston Martin we expect only the best.

But how can we deliver this high quality and still be competitive? How can we minimize the costs and hold the quality level on top? We divide the product development process into multiple parts and give it to specialists. The more people are involved the more we need a collaboration system to coordinate all the work.

There are lots of different communication platforms available which do the job. But what is important? What have you take care of, when you look for a communication platform for your next project?

Easiness and functionality. No one wants to spend hours and hours by finding out how things work. Therefore a modern communication platform needs to be easy understandable and should be intuitive. Imagine you have a chat system where all your team members are online and it takes you minutes to find out how to send a message - you simply won't do that.

What should your new groupware do? Which functions are a must have? I'll make it short. You need appointments, tasks, notes, emails, a contact manager and a chat. This is all you need to organize your and your team member's day and to communicate with them. Of course there are platforms with much more functions available, but remember: The more features a program has, the more difficult it becomes to keep track of the important things. When people have too many options, they simply refuse and won't use your new system.

Don't put everything online. Yes, there are a couple of online services which offer a rich set of functions and you don't have to set up a system within your company. But what happens, when you get to work and the web service is not there anymore? Are you still able to work, when you don't have an internet connection? And - do you trust these guys to send them all your data? It's safer to have everything local within your company and modern groupware and personal information managing systems offer access via the internet, too. So you don't have to stop working, when you're on the way.
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