Recently, employees and contractors have been asked to do more with less and multi-task in a challenging economic environment. Most have no formal training as professional project managers and many are left to use linear, static tools and processes in isolated meeting spaces, both physical and electronic, without any relevant communications.

PlanDone solves these problems by providing a centralized, interactive platform designed to gather and capture critical pieces of information such as files, guidance, goals or ideas within an open, flexible framework. PlanDone also organizes, prioritizes, schedules and enables better communication in a maintenance-free, hosted application that is easy to use for staff members at every level of the company and designed to support people in the way they work naturally - not force them to change their working style based on the confines of the software features.

There are literally hundreds of collaboration software companies and hundreds more project management software companies. But most are not utilizing new Web 2.0 technology to help companies complete their projects on time, and most customers using this software are failing to meet their stated deadlines, budget and expectations. Many of these models create a virtual meeting location to collaborate on deliverables without capturing data and forces users to leave the session to accomplish the work. PlanDone keeps teams in the same workspace as the meeting place and analyzes and recommends the next course of action programmatically - taking much of the guesswork out of daily planning. PlanDone also functions as a social, project planning application that relies on people’s input for reasonable, diversified, informed decisions.

Unlike other products, PlanDone has a built-in wiki system for tracking recent changes, a priority ranking system for differentiating task importance, an instant message system that captures chat information directly into the supporting documentation and a projected deadline system for accurately pinpointing end dates with certainty. PlanDone avoids the back and forth document version confusion by dynamically tracking the most current version in the wiki and providing clear expectations as action steps to team members of their prioritized tasks and due dates. Teams report higher productivity, more accurate deadline projections, greater ability to get back up to speed and reduction in miscommunication and confusion over shared roles.

PlanDone boosts a company’s top and bottom lines by increasing teams’ organizational confidence to reduce daily maintenance while pursuing higher priorities and ability to reduce infrastructure costs associated with operating multiple IT platforms and multiple, redundant, costly software packages with long training cycles and steep learning curves.

PlanDone helps teams work more efficiently and effectively while bringing clarity, visibility, and accountability to project planning in a whole new way.