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Project Management: Intellisys

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Intellisys is a cross-platform, user-centric, project management applications running on Windows, OS X, Linux and UNIX platforms. It’s unique user-centric, cross-project group planning paradigm is a powerful way to manage team project activity. 

From the web site: Most project management software takes a project-centric view of the data. A project with its subprojects is considered to be a closed unit in itself, which can be considered in isolation. Of course, this does not accurately reflect most real world situations.

Projects share resources, and the managers responsible must allocate resources across different projects. More often than not resources are shared across multiple projects. Software that considers a project to be a complete entity is unable to cope with this complexity, since one project knows nothing about the other. For instance a resource that has been allocated to work on one project, may well be overallocated to work on another, since the two projects (usually stored in separate files) are unaware of each other.

To cope with this problem, project-centric software introduces a complicated system of merging, importing and sharing resource related data across multiple project files. The end result is a nightmare for the average user, and has led to the proliferation of “gurus”, experts in the arcane details of juggling features in such software.

The solution
Intellisys focuses, instead, on the user as the basic unit. Users may have several projects on their plate at any time. Multiple users may have stakes in the same project. To match this situation, Intellisys uses views.

A user’s view is the set of projects that he is involved with currently. This view may contain parts of a larger project. A project may be shared with another user by making it accessible in his view. The key point is - regardless of the view, the fact that a resoure is allocated to a task in the view is globally known to the software, and the software uses this information when it does resource allocation and scheduling.

This means, among other things, that when one user allocates a resource to a task, the software can prevent another user from overassigning the same resource. All this happens transparently, without the users needing to take any special steps.

By considering a free flowing and modifiable project hierarchy instead of a rigid single project structure, several other benefits are accrued. It becomes simple to roll up the same project in many different ways, as becomes necessary when the organizational structure changes. It becomes simple to group together several small projects and view them as part of a larger project.

The Intellisys architecture provides several benefits over previous methods. We invite you to explore the site and find out for yourself.

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