Benefit: Comprehension

It's commonly held that most projects fail because of bad communications. However, for communications to be effective, all participants need some degree of familiarity and insight into the issues being discussed. Unfortunately, for most projects, this involves tracking many moving targets simultaneously.

We believe that effective project participants are involved in a continuous education process for the duration of their project, as they learn more about the problem domain and the ongoing evolution of the project's deliverables.

To this end, ProjectPipe is designed to allow project teams to effectively organize and communicate status the status of their project data. Furthermore, ProjectPipe makes it easy to reorganize and reclassify data should your project require a mid-course correction.

How does ProjectPipe Improve Project Comprehension?

  • Team-driven Data Organization: Provide the project team with total flexibility to classify and organize project data.
  • Non-intrusive Knowledge Sharing: Make it easy to subscribe to changes in project data via RSS, which keeps you always up-to-date, and minimizes the communications drag on the Project Manager or implementation team
  • Visualization: Provide interactive dependency graphs to visually represent and navigate complex relationships among project data

Who Lives for Comprehension?

  • The CIO who need to gauge the effectiveness of her organization's current technical delivery processes.
    ProjectPipe allows any stakeholder to quickly get the "big picture", and easily drill down into any level of detail that they wish, including audit history of any single item.
  • The Project Sponsor who needs to understand the ongoing health of their project, even if they don't understand all of the implementation details.
    ProjectPipe can provide stakeholders read-only access to all project data, so they can dig into whatever level of detail they choose, without running the risk of inadvertently changing anything.
  • The New Team Member, who needs to ramp up on the project ASAP.
    Since ProjectPipe keeps all project artifacts together, the time to acclimate a new team member is significantly reduced.

Comprehension-driven Features

ProjectPipe has a number of features designed to help team members better understand their project and the relationships within their data: