Features

Turn managing your Prince2™ projects into a more enjoyable and rewarding activity

Visual Project Maps helps by creating an environment where the project team are effectively working within the Prince2™ method, project members have easy access and visibility of project information, while they are subconsciously re-enforcing their knowledge of the method. With the ability to easily edit or change project properties as well as produce project data in various formats, Visual Project Maps for P2 can turn managing your Prince2™ projects into a more enjoyable and rewarding activity.

Because VPM utilises the Mindjet MindManager platform you get the benefit of two products. VPM will aid in managing successful projects in a PRINCE2 environment with MindManager giving you the unrivalled visual mind mapping power to perform a variety of tasks. See MindManager for more information.

Below we have outlined some of the challenges faced by organisations, and shown how Visual Project Maps can help you overcome these.

• Every Project Manager documents their projects in different formats ie MS Word, Project, XL.
  VPM Creates Standard templates so every project has continuity and can easily exported to the MS Office suite
• De Facto Standard Methodology not followed for managing projects
  Creates standards for internal processes that conform to the Prince 2 methodology.
• All project management documentation not stored or shared centrally
  VPM dynamically saves all the files to a designated file located to the server so all documentation is stored in one central place
• No views of project information or documentation
  Easy one click access to any file or document from the central location so you can see what needs to be actioned or updated
• Project Managers feel Prince 2 is “too heavy weight”
  VPM creates all of the documentation for you. All the project manager needs to do is change each plan for each project
• Prince 2 training is too expensive and organisations don’t have time to send all of their PM’s on courses.
  VPM is a great learning tool for Prince 2, included is official content from the "Managing Successful Projects with Prince2" handbook re-produced under licence from the Office of Government Commerce.
• Too much time is spent documenting the project rather than running the project
  Set your project documentation up in a few minutes as apposed to hours.
• The MSP manual always needs to be at hand.
  One-click access to content from the OGC's "Managing Successful Projects with Prince2" manual

Can I see my project tasks in a timeline view?
MindManager already has the built in functionality to export your project tasks into MS Project. If you want to view a Gantt chart time line view of your project but consider MS Project either too expensive or complicated why not use JCVGantt. This product synchronises directly with MindManager so any changed you make in the Gantt chart or Map are reflected in both locations instantly.

But my organisation doesn't use PRINCE2, it has its own methodology?
Although VPM has been developed around PRINCE2, the product can be customised to use
your own project management methodology*

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