How Strategic Planning Software Can Help You Keep Control of your Project
Strategic planning software can drastically improve the efficiency and success of a project. With opportunities to set out visual roadmaps, collaborate and track changes with your team in real time, keeping control of your project has never been easier.
The key to strategic planning is clearly setting out goals and the actions needed to achieve those goals. Spreadsheets, pie charts and diagrams can all be a good way to communicate these points to your team, but, as problems arise and changes need to be made, keeping track can become difficult.
Integrating software is one way to improve the overall process, ensuring everyone is updated from start to finish.
Project planning software can also help prevent delays to your project, as issues can be identified and resolved sooner.
The Challenges of Strategic Project Planning
Handling a wide range of different issues with single members of various teams can prove chaotic, especially if they are positioned at different levels of the company.
For example, senior management will be focusing on overall strategy and goals, while middle project managers will need more detail on tasks and actions within each project. Using strategic planning software can help you map out everything in a clear, concise way, ensuring all teams know exactly what’s ahead.
Failing to prepare for changes and risks can lead to problems down the line. It can also be difficult to present these findings in a clear way when there is a lot of data to work through.
The Benefits of Using Software in Strategic Planning
Using cloud-based software not only saves on paper and protects the environment, it also provides a secure place to store, track and update planning strategies that everyone has access to at a click of a button.
The right strategic planning software can help you present ideas, manage complex project portfolios and assess and manage risks for your team.
The Power of Visual
Most people know that diagrams, timelines and maps help people visualise a concept. Interactive roadmaps can be a fantastic visual tool to use in your team.
With a visual tool, data can be structured into intuitive layouts, enabling your team to co-create, collaborate and present in an engaging, dynamic way from any device.
For example, in SharpCloud, you can isolate a workflow by bringing it to the forefront, allowing you to focus on individual areas, free of all other distractions.
All roadmaps, data and other visual tools are automatically updated, so everyone can communicate easily and keep tabs on project progress in real-time.
Improve your Risk Management
Assessing and measuring risk is important in any project, as, without that knowledge, issues can quickly spiral out of control.
The right software will help you and your team to analyse, organise and report data instantly, enabling you to make efficient decisions when needed. See an example of this in a risk portfolio demo.
When managing risk, understanding issues that will affect your plan will help you to better manage your project. By mapping out the relationships between groups of data, it is easier to identify problems and understand the impact.
Manage your Entire Portfolio
Storing important data in one place enables you to easily locate and collect information when needed — helping you to stay in control of your project.
Good strategic planning software lets you easily store, organise and analyse data, giving stakeholders an opportunity to work with real-time information from any device. This allows you to use your planning solution as high-value project portfolio management software.
During meetings, you can present your portfolio in a clear, engaging way to highlight metrics, costs, timescales and potential risks in your project. No more complicated spreadsheets!
There is also the option to compare timelines and see an instant overview of everyone’s responsibilities, ensuring every team member is accounted for. This can improve productivity as well as highlight any underlying issues.
At SharpCloud, we make it easy to take control of your project with our strategic planning software. Sign up for a free trial and try out a roadmapping template.
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