Method123

Today, Method123 announced that it has just gained its 200,000'th customer and has sold to more than 250 countries worldwide. The release comes as the quarterly results in the US look poor as the recession grips America by storm. "Sales were down for the last quarter in 2008 over prior years, when the recession first hit" says Jason Westland, CEO of Method123 Ltd. However 2009 has been an extremely good year to date. It seems that customers are weary of spending tens of thousands on large implementation of project management tools sets and they are now interested in getting the maximum bang for buck with more affordable online tools like ours.” Method123 was founded in 2000 and was initially a free tools site for project managers. It released the "Project Management Template' product set in 2004 and has gained 200,000 customers in just 5 years. The company also has the largest "virtual" Project Management Community in the World, with more than 225,000 P...

Since we released MPMM Project Manager Enterprise last Christmas, we've received a huge number of enquiries from customers and resellers. To ensure that you're up-to-date with the latest reseller info on this edition, I've listed here the most popular reseller FAQS. Please read them. Q: Where can I read about MPMM Enterprise? A: Visit this web page: http://www.mpmm.com/project-management-enterprise.ph Q: Do you have a video that we can watch, to see it in action? A: Yes, we have just released a new video on MPMM Enterprise. You can watch it here http://www.mpmm.com/MPMMEnterpriseVideo/MPMMEnterpriseVideo.html Q: Can I collect payments for Enterprise license sales? A: No. We will manage the payments collection and commission distribution process for you. Q: Is the Enterprise Edition price fixed? A: Like all our products, you have the right to sell them at whatever price you choose. However for the Enterprise edition, because it has an open organization license, the minimum ...

Template Tips: How to develop a robust “ Risk Plan ” A key document created during this phase is the Risk Plan. A Risk Plan outlines the foreseeable project risks and provides a set of actions to be taken to both prevent the risk from occurring and reduce the impact of the risk should it eventuate.  To develop a Risk Plan: List all of the foreseeable risks during the project Rate the likelihood of each risk occurring Assess the impact on the project should each risk occur Prioritise the overall importance of each risk Identify a set of preventative actions needed to reduce the likelihood of each risk occurring Create a set of contingent actions needed to reduce the impact of each risk should it eventuate Document the process for managing risks throughout the project. Project Tips: How to undertake Issue Management Issue Management is the method by which issues currently affecting the ability of the project to produce the required deliverable are formally managed. A pr...

Q: How does the sales process work for MPMM Project Methodology Enterprise? A: As you know, the Project Methodology Enterprise edition includes an open user license for the customers Organization. So this sales process works slightly differently to sales of our other editions which are described in the Reseller Information Pack you should have already. For the Project Manager Enterprise edition, here are the 5 sales steps: 1. Pre-Sale: You initiate the sales process as you do normally. 2. Order: When your customer is ready to purchase, they will send you a Purchase Order for the product. The PO needs to be made out to Method123 Ltd. 3. License: You will then send the customer the Project Methodology Enterprise License Agreement attached. You need to fill-in your Reseller details at the top and get them to sign and date it. 4. Processing: You then email us the Purchase Order along with the Project Methodology Enterprise License Agreement and we will take it from there. We will review t...

Customer Question What's the difference between Method 123 and Method 123 Project Management Methodology? Thanks for getting in touch. As you have pointed out, we have 2 product offerings: The Method123 "Project Management Kit" and MPMM. The differences between the Project Management Kit and MPMM Project Management Professional are as follows: Support team Response - The Project Management Kit includes the complete suite of templates needed to deliver projects. MPMM also includes the same templates, as well as an entire project management methodology. The methodology tells you how to deliver projects, step-by-step. So it takes you through the Project Management Life Cycle and describes how to complete it successfully. - In addition to providing you with a methodology for projects, MPMM also includes a complete suite of practical examples for projects. So for instance, where the Project Management Kit includes a template called a "Business Case", MPMM includes t...

Template Tips: How to develop a robust “ Quality Plan ” ‘Meeting the quality expectations of the customer is critical to the success of the project. To ensure that the quality expectations are clearly defined and can reasonably be achieved, a Quality Plan is documented. The Quality Plan should: Define what quality means in terms of this project List clear and unambiguous quality targets for each deliverable. Each quality target provides a set of criteria and standards which must be achieved to meet the expectations of the customer Outline a plan of activities which will assure the customer that the quality targets will be met (i.e. a Quality Assurance Plan) Identify the techniques used to control the actual level of quality of each deliverable as it is built (i.e. a Quality Control Plan). It is important to review the quality not only of the deliverables produced by the project but also of the management processes which produce them. A summary of each of the management proces...

Greetings from Customer In the methodology noticeably the project scope statement and managing the scope (Scope Management) is missing. Which process will take care of these. This is covered in the "Change Management" section. Please have a look and let me know if you have any questions. Change management comes into play once the entire requirement (Scope) is defined, and the changes will be to the original requirements. The Project Charter defines the requirements, but rather it is at high level, a detailed specification has to be done, which different people may call it different names (Project Scope Statement as per PMI, Requirement Specification, Functional Specification). Furthermore scope is one of the triple constraints therefore defining it entirely and controlling is very much essential. I could not find that in the templates provided in MPMM Project Management Process . I am sure this question would have come up in the past from other customers. As per PMI scope is...