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Get Context - At the heart of ultimate time utilization and productivity optimisation is concept
of "context". "Context" relates to the goals and desires that govern our daily life. TPAssist's
Role Based Dashboard concept give you that context in the workplace and our First Steps
My Life Template Mind Maps does the same for your personal life.
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Get Organised - Crucial to optimal time utilization is the ability to quickly and easily
capture, process, dispatch and revisit needs and requests. Visually identifying and
maintaining tasks in Mindjet® MindManager® is incredibly easy and effective.
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Stay Organised - Seeing actions you take in context is a very effective way to keep you
moving forward. The context suggested by TPAssist's Role Based Dashboard will really help
ensure you keep on top of what needs to be done and ultimately stay organised.
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Be Fulfilled - If your tasks and activities are grouped and facilitated in such a way that they
were clearly identifiable against goals, then each completed action (i.e. “tick”) becomes be a
step closer to those goal. By seeing these completed tasks as steps towards a goal you will
have a better chance of achieving the sense of accomplishment on a daily, hourly or even
minute-by-minute basis.
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TPAssist 2007 is designed to provide you with the visual cues to track and manage the
various requests and activities that fill your day.
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Dashboards can be built very easily by linking topics to sub-maps and then running TPAssist
2007 Tree Update in Multimap mode.
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TPAssist 2007 has a straight-forward reporting tool that can be used to easily identify and
manage your tasks based on due date proximity, priorities and flag.
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Use MindManager and TPAssist to construct workflow tasks, set durations/effort and assign
ownership. Also linking them with relationships and automated dates.
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As you progress your workflow, using TPAssist, you can visually track steps taken and yet to
be taken. In addition, because your actions are tracked with-in the map, you have an instant
audit trail of your workflow progress.
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Financial values captured via TPAssist will be rolled-up the map to provide the visually means
to track estimates and actual details across groups of tasks, maps and Multimaps.
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TPAssist automatically journals changes made to task details, including dates, priority, flags,
percentage complete, text markers as well as resource assignment so you have a history, or
audit trail, of where and when changes were made to the plan.
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The TPAssist 2007 task tree summary capability has a "Resource Filter" which can be used
to manage tasks assigned to one or more individuals.
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TPAssist 2007's publish to Microsoft® Excel® capability is multi- map enabled, allowing you
to managing complex projects over multiple maps and produce consolidate Work breakdowns,
project schedules and other reports.
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TPAssist facilities project management... |
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A key aspect to project planning is the ability to easily and quickly identify tasks, groups of
task, interdependencies, time and effort.
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Mindjet® MindManager® is an excellent tool for achieving this. Coupled with TPAssist 2007,
you can automate dates, dependencies, task information roll-up and record where you first
made and then changed your plans.
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TPAssist 2007 also has tools to export project plan details to Microsoft Excel® for
communication, costing and analysis.
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The most important aspect to project management is the ability to manage the "Levers of
control" (i.e. Scope, Schedule, People, Materials, Quality and Risk)
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The flexibility of Mindjet® MindManager® means you can quickly and easily adjust the plan to
suit the changes in the project. With TPAssist 2007, you can keep track of status, use Red-
Amber- Green flags, priorities and also maintain an audit trail of all actions and
communications.
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Use MindManager and TPAssist to construct workflow tasks, set durations/effort and assign
ownership. Also linking them with relationships and automated dates.
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As you progress your workflow, using TPAssist, you can visually track steps taken and yet to
be taken. In addition, because your actions are tracked with-in the map, you have an instant
audit trail of your workflow progress.
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TPAssist uses custom properties to capture financial estimates and actual values. This
values will be rolled-up the map to provide the visually means to track any number of financial
aspects associated with task, stage/phase, project and portfolio.
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TPAssist 2007's publish to Microsoft® Excel® capability also provides "pivot source"
worksheets, which are flat exports of map topics specifically formatted to facilitate pivot
tables, charting and other manipulation to help you analysis and present project details.
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Project Management is ultimately about two activities: planning and management.
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Linear task management tools, particularly when Gantt enabled, are great tools for planning
the project and communicating the plan. However, these linear tools are less effective when it
comes to managing the project.
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Enable Project Offices through... |
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Red-Amber-Green reports form a very important part of management reporting.
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Managers can create Dashboard maps of project and then use TPAssist 2007 to traverse the
linked maps, populating the Dashboard map with dates, priorities, flags, percentage complete
and status text.
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TPAssist uses custom properties to capture financial estimates and actual values. This values
will be rolled-up the map to provide the visually means to track any number of financial
aspects associated with task, stage/phase, project and portfolio.
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TPAssist 2007's publish to Microsoft® Excel® capability also provides "pivot source"
worksheets, which are flat exports of map topics specifically formatted to facilitate pivot
tables, charting and other manipulation to help you analysis and present project details.
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Dashboards can be export to Microsoft Excel where it can be distributed for non Mindjet users.
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TPAssist's Microsoft Publishing capability is Multimap enabled and provides a task roll-up function.
These tools can be used to produced summarised project time-lines and portfolio overviews. |
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Enhance your online Mindjet Connect collaboration experience... |
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TPAssist automatically journals changes made to task details, including dates, priority, flags,
percentage complete, text markers as well as resource assignment so you have a history, or
audit trail, of where and when changes were made to the plan.
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The TPAssist 2007 task tree summary capability has a "Resource Filter" which can be used
to manage tasks assigned to one or more individuals.
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Use MindManager and TPAssist to construct workflow tasks, set durations/effort and assign
ownership. Also linking them we relationships and automated the dates.
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As you progress your workflow, using TPAssist, you can visually track steps taken and yet to
be taken. In addition, because your actions are tracked with-in the map, you have an instant
audit trail of your workflow progress.
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Financial values captured via TPAssist will be rolled-up the map to provide the visually means
to track estimates and actual details across groups of tasks, maps and Multimaps.
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TPAssist 2007's Tree Update and Task Summary also work with Multimaps.
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Dashboards can be built very easily by linking topics to sub-maps and then running TPAssist
2007 Tree Update in Multimap mode.
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TPAssist 2007's publish to Microsoft® Excel® and Microsoft Project® capabilities are multi-
map enabled, allowing you to managing complex projects over multiple maps and produce
consolidate Work breakdowns, project schedules and other reports.
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