This 4eLife social community has a great new feature. It's the Project Management Feature that helps members implement a Project Management tool. It gives the ability to create projects and subsequently manage its aspects such as Clients, Project Sponsors, Project Members and Project Tasks.

A Project can be listed with details of its implementation, expected completion date and can also include documents, photo and video attachments. heres a quick rundown of the features of this new tool.

PROJECT CLIENTS

Ability to input details of Client(s) that the Project is being developed for.

PROJECT SPONSORS

Many Projects require the assistance of Sponsors to realize their goals.

Each Project has the ability to list the details of any Sponsors that it is affiliated with.

PROJECT MEMBERS

Ability to input details of multiple members that are assigned to the Project.

Members can be assigned different Roles such as Team Leader, Project Manager etc.

PROJECT TASKS

Task are the various functions that must be performed in order to successfully implement a project. Project Tasks includes the following features :

Task Assignment - Tasks can be assigned to one or more members of the Team. An assignment tracking block displays the history of assignments on the task view page.

• Task Members - A block on the task view page lists the details of members currently assigned to a the task.
• Task Notes - It is possible to post notes about a specific task. This is a handy way to keep a historical record of what is happening with a particular task.
• Task Attributes - There are various attributes of a Task that can be updated to provided meaningful info on the progress of the Task. Each of these attributes has various options and they are implemented as Predefined Lists so the site administrator can manage the options. The attributes included with the module are :
  •    Priority (eg. Critical, Needs to be fixed etc.)
  •    Reproducability (eg. Rarely, Often etc.) 
  •    Resolution (eg. Can't Reproduce, Resolved etc.)
  •    Severity (eg. Critical etc.)
  •    Status(eg. Near Completion, Being worked on etc.)
• Task Calendar - This is shown on the Task View page and allows browsing of Tasks that were created on a particular date.

Tasks can be categorized as :

•    General Task
•    Bug Report
•    Enhancement
•    Feedback
•    Idea 
•    Milestone

STATUS TRACKER

Project Status can be updated and a corresponding reason provided. The project can be flagged as completed, On-Hold or Cancelled.

A block on the Project view page displays the history of status updates made to the Project.

BROADCAST

Ability for Project Administrator to send broadcast messages to members of the project.

PROJECT ADMINISTRATION

Ability to add multiple persons as Administrator of a Project.

DONATIONS

Ability for Project Administrators to accept Donations. This is handled via Paypal. 

Administrator can decide whether or not donors are listed on the Project View page.

As you can see, the project manager is quite advanced yet simple to use. Im sure you can't wait to start creating projects and scheduling your success.

It's easy to get started creating projects right away, just upgrade to V.I.P membership and begin immediately.

Until next time... Thanks for listening.

P.S. You can see a project in progress here. But please bare in mind that we made the project incomplete and we stopped progression at a point where we added tasks that were not due for completion for 10 years. this is so you can see a project mid way through with all the relevant settings. The project you can see here is part of a goal. The goal was to make initial preparations to the 4eLife community site. This serves as an example only, as many changes have been made and implemented since the beginning of the goal which includes several projects, some completed and others remain incomplete in order to serve as an example of how the goals and projects systems work together.