ProjectGoo is a free cloud-based project and portfolio management system using the Google Cloud and MS Project to provide a robust collaboration platform for project managers and team members.

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Overview

• Designed For Globally Distributed Teams
  Designed from the ground up as a cloud computing platform that allows anyone to contribute effectively on projects wherever they are in the world, ProjectGoo represents the next generation of project and portfolio management. Anywhere an user can reach Google, they can use ProjectGoo.

• Extend Project Manager’s Reach And Capabilities
  ProjectGoo extends a project manager’s reach to globalized teams and publishes project assignments from MS Projectover the Internet to team members along with defect, issues, and risk resolution assignments. Project Managers can upload, share and take advantage of the real-time editing features of Google Docs for project documentation.

• Empower Team Members
  With the ProjectGoo Team Client, team members can view project task assignments for each project they have been assigned and update their status — which updates the MS project plan task. The team can view, update and reassign each defect, issue, risk and document that has been assigned to them.

• Leverage Best-of-Breed Tools For Project Planning and Cloud Computing
  ProjectGoo utilizes the best-of-breed in project tools (MS Project 2007) as well as the best-of-breed cloud computing infrastructure (Google). Plan in Microsoft Project and collaborate with Google. Upon request, ProjectGoo for MS Project 2003 is also available.

• A Focus On Security
  All communications utilize SSL 128-bit encryption to ensure that project data and documentation remains secure and private. No extra effort needed to set up encryption — it’s built into the product.

Features

• Easy adoption with the Tutorial Mode that guides the user when using features within ProjectGoo

• Manage a portfolio of projects that are managed by multiple project managers with multiple project teams

• View portfolio projects’ health and current budget and actual expenditures

• Collaborate with the new discussion feature that allows all team members to collaborate on any defect, issue, risk, document, assignments and schedule changes

• Process schedule change requests for each project plan and assignment

• Analysis of portfolio defects, issues, risks, and resource availability

• With ProjectGoo Project Manager Client, publish projects from Microsoft Project 2003/2007  (both Standard and Professional) to team members around the world through the Google Cloud

• Receive task assignment status updates through the Google Cloud from project team members on percent complete, actual work and remaining work for each assignment task with auto-update of status in the Microsoft Project Plan

• Associate defects, issues, risks with individual project tasks and see inline to the project plan the impact of the project’s defects, issues and risks

• Assign resources (cost, work, material) from the ProjectGoo Enterprise Resource Pool directly to each project plan for easy team building

• Share project documentation with project members

• Manages an Enterprise Resource Pool and allows viewing of resource commitments and availability for the entire Enterprise Resource Pool

• Seamless permission management for all work resources that are committed to project teams

• Centrally store and manage defects for the portfolio of projects

• Associate reported defects with individual tasks in the Microsoft Project plan for easy impact analysis and delivery risk analysis

• Assign defects to team members and easily establish a workflow for defect resolution across the entire project team

• View trending data on the defect report rate and defect statuses/types

• Centrally store and manage issues for the portfolio of projects

• Associate reported issues with individual tasks in the Microsoft Project plan for easy impact analysis and delivery risk analysis

• Assign issues to team members and easily establish a workflow for issue resolution across the entire project team

• View trending data for issue resolution and types

• Centrally store and manage risks for the portfolio of projects

• Associate reported risks with individual tasks in the Microsoft Project plan for easy impact analysis and delivery risk analysis

• Assign risks to team members and easily establish a workflow for risk mitigation & resolution across the entire project team

• View trending data for risk resolution and types

• Store and share project documents with project team members

• Granular permissions for each document – documents can be private, shared with some team members or made public to the project team

• Inherits the real-time collaboration features on project documents inherent to Google Documents