Project managers get a life!

Citation

(2000), "Project managers get a life!", Facilities, Vol. 18 No. 13/14. https://doi.org/10.1108/f.2000.06918mab.022

Project managers get a life!

Keywords Information centres, Internet, Project managers

Project managers might just get their life back – thanks to the launch of L8 ONLINE which comes from a world where up-to-date information about IT projects and work programs is always readily available.

From now on, project managers can have just one central place of all knowledge, a place where they can find real-time information on the status of IT projects and work programs – at any time of day, from any part of the globe.

Critical issues, the status of identified risks, budget against plan, the latest end dates – all available instantly. But is this just a dream? According to the managing director of Level 8 Consultants Limited, Ian Mitchell, this place exists now, with the launch of their latest software, L8 ONLINE. Their team of consultants have put together L8 ONLINE using their own long-term experience of working from different perspectives within project management environments.

L8 ONLINE is an IT management software service, delivered on a corporate intranet or provided as a service over the Internet. From two users to thousands, for senior management, IT team players, committees, users, vendors and business partners, the program provides a consistent secure collaborative space to run hundreds of work programmes and projects – from brief upgrade projects to enterprise changing roll-outs.

Mitchell said: "L8 ONLINE allows you to achieve two management objectives – the ability to run disciplined, cost-conscious environment yet with minimum hands-on input. What's more, with L8 ONLINE's unique formal structure, you don't need to spend your time in endless progress meetings, buried under a pile of requests for information – passing on and issuing information demands like a some sort of project knowledge broker."

The concept has been developed by highly experienced project managers and IT specialists, bringing together top-level skills from a variety of disciplines to provide a highly visible, secure and controlled online environment for all project information. L8 ONLINE allows project managers to know and control where they and their team are with any given project, supplying the right level of information to the right people.

"More importantly, you get to use effectively the one commodity no amount of money can buy you – time", said Mitchell.

The design behind L8 ONLINE allows it to work in a number of different management environments – regardless of size or maturity of business.

"Typically, you will have your own working formal methodology for running projects, but need the benefits of instant browser-based access to information. L8 ONLINE can be used to put your existing values online, re-enforcing your project disciplines and team objectives, as well as giving information access to project partners, vendors and users", Mitchell said.

However, more and more people are in start-up mode, with the rapid deployment of the issue above all others. This is where L8 ONLINE comes into its own – with specially adapted project and programme methodology, which is ideal for e-business projects and a great start point for continuous improvement.

Mitchell adds: "Although we highlight two distinctly different types of organisation, most will be somewhere in between. This is where Level 8 Consultants Limited can help. We have decades of experience in establishing project and project office environments and can rapidly deliver the type of management space within L8 ONLINE, which is best suited to your organisation."

Further details about the software is available from Level 8 Consultants Ltd, 7 Queens Road, Farnborough, Hants GU14 6DJ. Tel. +44 (0)1276 679435; E-mail: sales@level8.co.uk