Now SaaS! Perfect Project Management Solutions

Gobalization and outsouring has greatly change the geography of IT industry. Programmers working for the same project might be from different departments, companies or even different countries. Consequently, traditional project management would not fit in such scenarios.

What and why is SaaS?

Saas, software-as-a-service, or on-demand software is based on cloud technology that allows users to access it anywhere and anytime without being subject to locations and private deployment.

As people work for the same project might be scattered in different locations, it is very important to make sure that each team member understands the scope of their job. With SaaS, it is convenient ot get everyone of the team on the same page. Team members will have a clear view of what their tasks are, how much has been done and how much to be done, what the dependencies between one task and the other, and between their tasks and others'.

SaaS reduces the cost of hardware which traditional project management software requires. Compared to the traditional software, SaaS "enables organizations to deploy applications at the fraction of the price of deploying on-premise applications" ¹ as it is can be told from the image below.

(Image from Nowogrodski, A. (2008). SaaS project management for the enterprise: Using software when managing projects.)

When it comes to software project management, ZenTao Cloud is based on ZenTao open source project management software, developed by an Agile team and for Agile team. It has daily backup which can be downloaded anytime, and can be private deployed. Tasks, stories, and bugs are clearly defined. It has Subversion and Git hosted. If you would like to know more about ZenTao, please go to www.zentao.pm.

Reference

1. Nowogrodski, A. (2008). SaaS project management for the enterprise: Using software when managing projects. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2008—North America, Denver, CO. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute