This is particularly true for multi-location organisations and medium-sized companies (who can’t carry the cost of enterprise rollout and support of a PM solution)

If I don’t start getting on track with my projects, like immediately, my boss will probably fire me. Without this job, I can’t make my mortgage payments and the kids will most likely starve. This will trigger a series of devastating and cataclysmic events, which will ultimately land me in some mental institution down by the river.

Now that my starving kids don’t have a father to watch over them, they will revolt and become crazed mall-lurking drug addicts, which means that they won’t be playing sports any longer. Now if my son quits soccer, there’s a really, really good chance that the US will lose during a double-overtime match against Korea in the 2014 World Cup.

Once Korea wins, they will start bragging and mouthing off about how much better they are than the US, teasing our players and our economy, shouting stuff like, “Ha ha, stimulus THIS!” (in Korean, of course). Now you and I both know that the US simply doesn’t put up with that CR4P…

Hence, WWIII will ensue.

By now, Clarizen has gone global and now both countries are so damned freakin’ ORGANIZED, the perfectly planned war lasts for over a decade, where at this time, the planet is glowing nuclear waste dump site, not to mention everyone is dead. The servers are still running, but the people are toast. How’s that for managing UNCERTAINTY?

And that’s pretty much why I need Clarizen today, to help prevent a major catastrophy. In fact, I would be doing everyone a FAVOR by you giving me the free licenses.

Oh, and by the way…YOU’RE WELCOME!

Peace out,
Keoni
The Company Computer Guy

We are also more than willing to provide usability feedback and/or participate in the development of white papers around our implementation of your product if it works out well for us.

The tool I wanted should basically be able to do 5 things: (Dependency Enabled) Task-Lists, Templates for such, Reminders, Shared Forum for each project, Document Management. At this point, I had no clear idea of HOW TO EFFECTIVELY INSERT INFORMATION and WHO should really stay behind all this and keep it updated.

I found it very hard to find a good tool. After weeks of research in groupware and many, various PM tools, my choices melt sown to ActiveCollab, JobLogs – and Clarizen.

The BIG PROs OF CLARIZEN over all others:

- You can ADD TASK TO EXISTING PROJECTS via Email from you Outlook! That a great one!!!
- People receive INTERACTIVE REMINDER EMAILS for there tasks.
- With these Emails people can UPDATE there tasks from anywhere! Even on a Smartphone people can update their progress and join the masterplan without Project Manager effort.
- They can as well leave notes on there tasks, that then appear to the project manager as new note…
- Managers and everyone with a log-in can send Emails right from the task that will contain a link to the task – for perfectly quick context provision.
- Perfect for distributed project teams.
- “Resources” don’t need a license! They can be involved into the project plan for FREE… They can update the tasks assigned to them directly from their Outlook! You cannot make it easier to collect project progress information! That really is great.
- You can have all kinds of REPORTS on you projects and tasks….
- Time and budget tracking on projects!

AND ONE MORE GREAT THING ABOUT CLARIZEN THAT I FOUND NOWHERE ELSE:

You are an A-Client for them, as well if you don’t buy 100 licenses. People are very proactive to help you. They are friendly, efficient and helpful at all times. Support is personal and fantastic. (Thanks guys!)

You can give your feature requests and people keep track of them, and they make new versions go live every 2 months….

I don’t say that Clarizen is perfect for everyone, but it works for us and is a perfect (and affordable) tool if you like to efficiently DEFINE, DELEGATE and then KEEP TRACK of work and tasks.

Best to all,
Christoph

http://www.Gtdagenda.com

You can use it to manage and prioritize your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version is available too.