MetaTeam is a team management solution that delivers performance by focusing on the most important and least well understood factor: team organization and accountability.
MetaTeam raises team performance and lowers project costs by enabling team leaders to manage chartering, planning, scheduling, decision-making and delivery in one integrated solution.
And because MetaTeam is a comprehensive framework for all project management activities, it offers levels of analysis that other products can not.
Most project management tools handle just one slice of the pie
Project failures currently cost US businesses over $100 billion each year.
MetaTeam recaptures the losses of poor project management and failed projects by going beyond the current scheduling- and tasking-centered tools to provide a rich project governance environment.
MetaTeam’s governance framework is simple and intuitive. It ties critical business and project goals to roles, responsibilities and decision-making.
MetaTeam’s built-in best practices make it easy for project managers at all experience levels to do the right things quickly, making them more competitive.
Other project management tools often represent goals and tasks as line-items, leaving out the detail that is fundamental to project execution and control. For less experienced project managers, that lack of support sets them up for poor performance.
MetaTeam takes a more comprehensive approach, letting team members work within a network of project information that acts as a living charter and project plan.
MetaTeam keeps all of the team’s information fully connected, findable and meaningful.
Delivery-critical information is captured with the planning that directs the daily work.
- Decisions are managed in a structured framework
- Responsibilities are specified and applied within resource management along side goals and tasks
- Requirements are itemized and accounted for during goal management and decision-making
- Scope, risks, authorization and other baseline information are captured and organized. Even commendations for work well-done have a place in MetaTeam
All project activity is layered on top of the foundation of team management, removing confusion and saving time.
No other project management software comes close to delivering the richness and power of information. MetaTeam makes it easy to collect, distribute and use this information within a best-practices framework that positions your team for success.
Significant projects start with a specification and authorization of the challenge in a charter. The charter guides the project team from start to delivery. For smaller projects the charter may be simple, but in virtually every case the basic understandings are documented.
MetaTeam makes chartering a project a simple activity guided by an information structure that collects the details of:
- Mission
- Goals
- Scope
- Background information
- Authorization
- Dates and times
- Rules and values
- Risks
Other planning details are added to the charter, including the team membership, the roles and responsibilities, key decisions and the details behind the headline goals.
MetaTeam’s charter format dovetails with project management standards and best practices.
Customers also have the opportunity to customize the format to meet their organization's particular needs.
MetaTeam captures planning information in a tightly integrated framework of goals, roles and responsibilities.
MetaTeam makes creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) easy with drag and drop hierarchal goals management. The project manager can also import information from Microsoft Project, layering MetaTeam’s rich management structure over the imported tasks.
Following best practices, the project manger assigns each goal to one or more roles. MetaTeam roles help members keep track of their part in the project, as well as who they can rely on for help. Responsibilities are defined easily to add clarity, reduce rework and boost productivity by tapping into the full potential of team members.
MetaTeam recognizes that people often wear many hats and devote time to both directed and undirected activities. Directed and undirected activities are aggregated and tracked trough the Goals, Tasks, and Responsibilities features, providing insight into the distribution of effort between roles and the team members they are assigned to.
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Scheduling & Resource Management
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Scheduling is integrated throughout MetaTeam, letting you manage it top-down or bottom-up at any level of detail, to give you a granular view of levels of effort over time.
MetaTeam’s date-driven planning tools allow for reporting on every part of your project, including roles, responsibilities and decisions, resulting in better resource management.
MetaTeam complements Microsoft Project’s scheduling capabilities for complex projects by letting you import and export your Project files while keeping chartering, planning and delivery activity in MetaTeam.
Good decisions are critical to successful project management. In fact, decision-making is one of the most expensive and risk-prone processes teams engage in.
MetaTeam offers a robust structured decision-making framework that can help your team make better decisions more quickly and with greater commitment to the results.
MetaTeam catalogs decisions for easy access, deliberation and reference after resolution. Your decisions are organized according to:
- Subject
- Person responsible for the decision
- Decision-making approach
- Weight and importance to the project
A decision is generally made in support of achieving one or more goals. MetaTeam captures the decision - goal relationship. Any requirements of the goal become criteria for the decision and are used to prioritize resolution options.
Depending on how you structure your decision, you can let the team enter options, add facts, requirements and resolutions, hold discussions, vote by secret or public ballot, and attach documents.
Ranking decisions helps your team focus on those that are most important to success. A set of decisions may be ranked in two ways. Simple ranking provides a rough ordering by the decision owner. Advanced ranking offers a rapid, more fine-grained ordering by the decision owner answering a small number of drop-down questions in a form.
Unlike scheduling tools, MetaTeam supports your team all the way from planning through delivery.
And unlike general purpose collaboration tools, MetaTeam gives your project information an organizing structure that feeds through all stages, from chartering to planning.
MetaTeam’s higher level of project scaffolding makes information findable, actionable, and reliable. Where simple collaboration products often make more work and may actually lower productivity, MetaTeam:
- Reduces confusion within the team
- Helps eliminate rework and conflict
- Provides greater transparency to management
- Builds stronger sponsor and stakeholder relationships, and
- Creates a coherent history of the project for future reference
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