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Increasing Project Efficiency with Software Automation
It
is well known that project management software can be very useful when
one is in charge of completing a project and managing a team to
accomplish an objective. This software does many things, from
budgeting, to payroll, to time tracking, to scheduling. And there are
plenty of tasks that hard working team members do. However, there are
some roles that can be more efficiently filled by making use of
software automation.
Automation software is
a computer program (and there are various companies that offer software
that can perform different task) that is meant to handle certain
aspects of projects that are mundane or routine. These are tasks that
might take quite some time for a person to accomplish, or might be
tedious. Rather than have a person work on tasks that can be handled by
software, put that person to work on more specialized tasks that better
utilize her or his skills. This frees up more people to work on
important aspects of the project. Or it could mean that one less person
needs to work on the project team. This saves money on the project. A
good project manager understands that he or she can best oversee the
successful accomplishment of the objectives when the right people are
being correctly utilized, and that unnecessary costs are eliminated.
There
are many tasks that automated project management software can
accomplish. Some software programs can compile and package codes for
applications. Others can actually generate application code as well.
This saves the need to have someone spend hours working with code to
ensure that everything is correctly packaged or generated. It is also
possible for software to create a variety of documents from templates.
This includes portable document format (PDF), text, extensible mark-up
language (XML), and rich text format (RTF). It is even possible for
software automation to take care of zip archives and MIME attachments.
In
addition to creating documents and archives, project management
software that is automated can also execute commands and work with
control systems. This means that if a project manager needs to get
something done from a remote location, it is possible for her or him to
use a software automation program to tell another computer or program
to do something. This can be very useful. It is also possible to use
project management software to download and upload documents and other
files by using common Internet protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.
This can be done through Web site especially set up for this type of
software.
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