Task management system and projects: nonfunctional parameters

The size of the company is directly proportional to amount of difficulties in its management. This simple pattern, apparently, is obvious even to the people far from delegation of instructions and control of employees. However in practice we observe surprising mismatch: in the presence of impressing the number of ready-made solutions for business process automation a set of the large and authoritative companies continue to work with tasks in the old manner. In the old manner – it means to distribute instructions orally, to write instructions on stickers and to notepads. And still in the old manner is to put instructions via Skype, to send the report on e-mail and to make the task list in Excel. In such conditions efficiency analysis of work reminds guessing on a coffee thick.

Price

The difference in the price of project management systems can be very considerable. Some of them on a pocket only to the large and successful companies, others in principle are free. Rates are, as a rule, based on the number of users which will use the application, sometimes developers do paid only a part of functionality.

Other aspect of pricing – the "cloud" version of a product or "box". The boxed format assumes installation on your server, and the price of it is, as a rule, about 10 times higher, than a license fee for "cloud". The fact that a system is free does not mean at all that it is a bad product, but the paid systems have a number of powerful advantages:

1. Guarantee of safety of data. Developers of the paid systems aim to provide the round-the-clock and uninterrupted access to the product, interruptions they I perceive as accident. For the same reason safety and data security of the client for them – a point of honor. And here free applications should nothing to nobody, and there is nothing to take from them in case of problems, respectively.

2. Updates. That amount which you pay for a product leaves not only for the salaries of developers and cookie for their office, but also on completion of a product, its growth and improvement. As for the free systems, here the situation is differently: such products are quite often already thrown by a developer command, and possible errors it is necessary to you will eliminate by own efforts (if like those, of course are). Thus, you can doom yourself to use of an inconvenient and unreliable product.

3. Technical support. At developers of the free systems specialists who deal with issues of users practically are never provided. With the problem you will remain in private.

Work speed

It is one of the most important parameters. Work in a project management system assumes that you often pass from the page to the page therefore long load time is very powerful minus. This moment should be considered separately if you want will deliver at himself "box": whether your server will cope? Existence of documentation

Kind of a system was not convenient in use, the perfect interface was not thought up yet. Therefore each developer respecting himself should provide instructions both for the administrator, and for the normal user of a system.

Relevance

Considering the next application as option for purchase, think whether it will be suitable for your business process? As systems try to make universal, do them average. And it quite often means that you will not be able to adjust any detail designs without additional investments and a dopisyvaniye of the code. And it still if the application code is available to customization.

Localization

If your employees with a concern look at the English-language interface as they doubt the level of language, pay attention to russification of the application. Today in the market there is a number of systems which are translated by a machine method. At such method you risk to see an unreadable mere verbiage instead of the interface clear to the Russian-speaking person.