Greater Productivity and Efficiency with Project Management Software ZilicusPM

WILMINGTON, Del. - Aug. 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Today organizations are facing stakeholders' expectations to deliver excellence. It is becoming a question or survival in fast changing business dynamics. The pressure to perform can be seen not only at top management level but also at down the line employees' level. There is a dire need to remain focused, be efficient and productive.

Zilicus enables project management office and project management professionals to keep up with this pace and expectations. The latest version of ZilicusPM has introduced a feature for project managers to keep its project planning and execution focused with project charter/scope, project requirements, project review. It also makes project manager more productive enabling them to do project planning & tracking even quicker with keyboard hotkeys for project planning.

The features and enhancements introduced in the latest version of project management software ZilicusPM 11.1 are.

Keep Project Planning & Tracking Focused By Having Online Project Charter, Project Scope, Project Requirements
Well documented, clearly and concisely written project charter, project scope, project requirements help project managers to keep its project plan aligned. S/eh can perform project execution and monitoring more effectively keeping in mind project scope, etc. ZilicusPM enables project managers to record project artifacts like project charter, project scope, project requirements for a project.

Faster Project Planning & Tracking with Keyboard Hotkeys
Project managers have plenty of things to look after but they can not ignore project planning & tracking at any cost. ZilicusPM has made it even faster and easier for project manager to update project plan & update progress. New set of keyboard shortcuts have been introduced to make project planning faster for project planner.

Some of the keyboard shortcut introduced are
F2  : Make selected task editable (ready to edit)
Escape  : Exit editable mode for a selected task
Control + Insert : Add a new task below
Control + Shift + Insert : Add a new sub-task below
Delete : Delete a selected task
Tab : Once a given task is made editable, project planner can user tab to add/update task name, change start date, change duration, change task priority, update task status, update task % completion, assign resource(s)

Project planners can also use keyboard shortcut in Advance Schedule and Gantt page such as

Alt + T :  To add new task
Alt + R : To add recurring task
Delete : Delete selected task
Control + C :  Copy a task or group of tasks (depending on selection)
Control + V : Paste a task or group of tasks (depending on selection)

Importing Microsoft Project Plan with Resources
Project managers while importing project plan can specify resource mapping. If project planner chooses to map resources, this feature will ensure that all activities assigned to a resource specified in MS Project plan will have same activities assigned to mapped resources from project team in ZilicusPM.

If you have been managing projects with conventional spreadsheet/ MS Excel templates or emails, it is the right time to start using online project management software. Take a screenshot tour of project management system (http://www.zilicus.com/tour/) ZilicusPM and Sign up for 30-days free trial (https://projects.zilicus.com/Signup.jsp) of project management software ZilicusPM 11.1