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| Project Management Best Practices |
An out-of-control project can eat you alive, consuming resources that are needed for other projects and creating a "death spiral" of late projects, cost overruns you can't bill for, unhappy customers and sometimes even lawsuits.
If you don't have the right tools and procedures helping you keep a watchful eye on your projects, you could be on the road to bankruptcy and be unaware of it. That's why every service-oriented project manager and business owner needs to adopt and use the industry's best practices for project management.
Selecting Autotask is the right beginning. With it, you have all the tools you need to manage projects effectively and to detect, intercept, and correct problems as early as possible. To say nothing of capturing more billable time, and documenting everything you've done. With Autotask, you've already taken the first step toward greater profits, happier customers, repeat business, and referrals.
But Autotask is only as good as your internal project management procedures. If there are fundamental problems built into your current project management workflow, technology alone can't overcome them.
That's why we offer Autotask's Project Management Best Practices consulting service. We can show you how to set up and manage projects more efficiently, to avoid pitfalls, to better leverage the power of Autotask, to identify problems quickly and take corrective action, and to finish the job more profitably.
Can you benefit from Autotask's Project Management Best Practices service?
Take this quick quiz and find out:
- Are your projects completed on time and within budget?
- Do you know where you are in the process and whether you are making or losing money on each project?
- Are you able to bill for scheduled milestones on time?
- Do you accurately bill for overages and scope increases?
- Can you provide your customers with back-up documentation of what you did, and when you did it?
- If a customer calls for status, can you respond quickly and easily?
- Are you certain that your resources are allocated in a way to maximize productivity?
If you can't respond with a hearty "Yes" to each of these questions, you'll find our Project Management Best Practices service to be a breath of fresh air.
What Project Management Best Practices can do for your business
- Improve your efficiency. Avoid glitches and intercept problems before they become disasters while moving steadily forward.
- Increase ROI. Manage all your resources more effectively and know where you stand at any moment.
- Meet or exceed customer expectations and boost referrals. Projects completed on-time and on-budget mean customers who are happy, and ready to recommend you.
- Increase the benefit you get from using Autotask. When you use Autotask smarter, it makes your work easier.
- Ensure profitability. When you use project management best practices, you have immediate access to see whether your project is tracking towards profit or loss.
- Sleep better. You won't spend time awake wondering whether a particular project is going well, you'll be confident of its status.
Here's How We Do It
- Step One - Autotask's Professional Services Staff conducts an exhaustive in-take session with your key project management personnel, in which we examine in depth project management within your company. We examine the complete process in detail, from beginning to end.
- Step Two - We map, in detail, your existing project management procedures. We identify areas where problems, disconnects, or inconsistencies occur. We pinpoint where improvements are needed.
- Step Three - After reviewing your existing procedures, we suggest the solutions that are needed to bring your business up to Best Practices. We show you how to optimize your project management processes, including who, where, what, when and how. We also show you what to do inside Autotask to support the changes in your project management, and we make the changes for you.
- Step Four - As an option, Autotask's Professional Service Group can train your staff - through documents, on-line or on-site - in the correct project management practices for your business.
How Best Practices will transform your Project Management
If you rigorously implement the suggestions provided by Autotask's Project Management Best Practices consultant, you can expect the following outcomes. You will:
- Complete projects on-time and within budget.
- Track the status of any project in real-time, and be able to report to customers.
- Detect critical path problems early so that they can be corrected.
- Determine instantly what's done, what's due, what's overdue and what's next.
- Know your next milestone and when you will reach it.
- Have the flexibility to adjust for the unexpected.
- Access historical data on duration of tasks, so that you can estimate better in the future.
- Identify the most effective members of your project team.
- Maintain timely and accurate project billing.
Call Today For Your Free Initial Consultation
When you manage projects with Best Practices, it's a win for everyone: you, your staff, your company, and your customers. Let Autotask help you find ways to manage projects more effectively. To learn more, contact Sarah Kearney, Professional Services Coordinator at +44 (0) 203 00 63147, ext. 1318, or your Autotask Sales Executive or Account Manager. Let us make your business run. Better.
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