In: Operations Management
You just landed a Project Manager volunteer position for a
non-profit organization. As they don’t know much about project
management, they want your advice with a couple of things. Some of
their sponsors are giving them money for buying materials and
software. They trust you because you seem to know a lot about this,
help them with the following recommendations:
1. Is it worth it to buy a PM software or to get a Free/Open
source/Online version? Provide two reasons to justify your
answer.
2. Find two suitable paid PM software and provide the cost of their
licenses.
3. List three free PM software and mention their top three
features.
4. What are those three functions/features, software must-have for
you to like it?
5. There is money for one manual/book, what is your recommendation?
And why?
Answer1= I would suggest going for the free online version of PM due to following reasons=
First, these PM software are for general purpose and thus a lot of functions which are present in the paid version of PM can also be utilized
It will save money for the Nonprofit organization and this money can be used for other purposes.
Anwer 2=Scoro is one of the suitable PM software and it has the fee of $22 per user/ month for its plus version, while the charge is $55 per user per month for Ultimate version
The second PM software is Meister Task and its fee is $20.75/user/month for business version while for pro version it charges $8.25/user/month
Answer 3= The tp three free versions of PM are =
Trello,Hygger, Freedcamp
These PM software are able to organize all the ideas in the form of a Kanban Form
The 3rd party apps can be integrated for better functioning and productivity
It facilitates high data mining features
Answer 4- The three important features are as below=
Data presentation and exploration facility
Integration with the 3rdparty programs
Compatibility with different Operating system
Answer 5= I would recommend Freedcamp as it facilitates many users and it does nto require to switch to different windows for the task management and facilitates real time workload reports