Project Collaboration
Link planning to execution and provide advanced visibility.
Track thousands of detailed tasks or just a few critical project activities required to advance your products from one development phase to the next—even if your product definition is highly dynamic. Arena's template-based project definition automatically generates detailed plans that keep task lists current and enable consistency enterprise-wide.
Eliminate manual gathering of project execution details and documentation, enabling widely distributed product teams to instantly view and update project and product information on the fly. Easily analyze progress at any level of the product assembly, any step in the project, or across a portfolio of projects to enable fast recognition and reaction to problems, changes, and chokepoints.
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Project Collaboration Benefits
- Tie projects to the product record to ensure accurate and detailed tracking of development activities in the context of changing product information.
- Give product team members instant project visibility and the ability to update information across organizational and geographic boundaries.
- Track and analyze project status at any level of the project or product structure.
Project Collaboration Details
- Template-driven project definition: Define project templates that represent your high-level business processes, with milestones and phases for various types of projects (e.g., New Product Development / Introduction, RoHS Compliance).
- Item-type task sets: Define task sets for specific types of items (e.g., electronic, mechanical, high-risk) and specify the appropriate phase for each task.
- Auto-generate project plans: Select phases and milestones, then assign key items to be tracked for the project. Arena will then generate the appropriate time-phased tasks for all appropriate components and subassemblies.
- Tailor projects to individual requirements: Add, delete, or change phases, milestones, and tasks as required to support unique projects.
- Bulk update and assign tasks: Update scheduled deadlines for tasks, reassign tasks, and update completion status in bulk.
- Quickly identify schedule problems: Perform "on-the-fly" problem analysis by displaying the earliest deadlines for parent items and latest deadlines for their child items.
- Auto-notification: Notify users (including suppliers) of late phases, milestones, and new task assignments.
- Track project documentation: Upload all relevant project files to a central location your extended team can access. Collect additional project information at the item level or at any level of the BOM.
- Manage the project portfolio: View and compare the schedules and statuses of a portfolio of projects by template, program or project manager. View task assignments across multiple projects by status, item, deadline, and project template.
- Root cause analysis: Identify and drill down into problems at the portfolio, project or tracked item level. Navigate the full project schedule and up or down the product structure.
- Summary project status: View a summarized graphical representation of phase and milestone status and roll up key metrics for a project or tracked item in a project.
- Detailed project status: Filter status metrics to view subsets of tracked items. View the status of individual items, tasks, and milestones, or view the status of rolled-up tasks.
- View upcoming and recent events: Receive and view alerts regarding recently completed activities or pending activities for a project or for individual items.
- Project "problem finder": View late, unassigned and behind tasks associated with a project or tracked item in a project.
- Task-level comments: Add task notes to capture task-specific information or decision rationale.
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