Task Workbench

Assign and track tasks and generate status reports on projects and resources, including effort details that support future estimates

Overview

Task Workbench is an easy-to-use, yet powerfully effective, task and resource management tool. It provides a simple channel for assigning tasks and reporting status and issues. Task Workbench generates alerts and reports on projects and resources, so that you can effortlessly manage projects to the task level of detail.

Key Benefits

By providing timely and accurate project information, Task Workbench (TWB) will improve efficiency and drive your organization towards success. There are benefits for all roles involved in projects:

• Administrators and accountants
  • Obtain a current and comprehensive snapshot of all work hours spent on billable and non-billable tasks, rolled up to project level.
  • Monitor and control resource details such as accumulated vacation and banked time.
• Executives
  • View current and planned projects, especially resource requirements and timing.
  • Get a comprehensive view of projects performed in summary reports, thereby establishing a firm basis for estimates.
• Supervisors
  • Assign tasks unambiguously, automatically setting up the mechanism to remain informed of task status and issues.
  • Remain aware of team member activity by monitoring time logged against assignments.
• Employees
  • Receive clear task assignments and a simple channel for reporting progress and issues.
  • Organize and manage your own time by creating subtasks for yourself or helpers.
• Customers
  • Gain insight into project status at summary or drill-down level. (The project manager controls which tasks are visible to the customer).
  • Drive project requirements by adding comments and directions to tasks.

Key Features

• Microsoft Project integration for project planning
• Task creation and assignment in a hierarchical tree structure
• Project and task status reporting and notification
• Weekly timesheet submission
• Standard and customizable project reports
• Project and resource information for management
• Notification and alert services
• Sub-task management for team members
• Integration with issue-management tools
• Integration with project library
• Billing for professional service organizations

Application and System Compatibility

• System Requirements:
  • 10MB for software
  • 200MB for data storage
  • 50MB of temporary storage
• Software Requirements:
  • As a Java Web application, TWB can be deployed on many platforms, for example:
  • JDK 1.5.x
  • PostgreSQL 7.x or 8
  • JBoss Application Server 4.0.x
• Client Software Requirements:
  • Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later
• Supported Platforms:
  • Server: Windows (NT/Win2000/XP) or UNIX