Socialize your Projects (v8.xx)

Socialize your Projects (v8.xx)

Genius Live! is Geniusproject’s social collaboration platform that takes enterprise project and portfolio management to the next level. Genius Live! will empower your users by delivering a collaboration platform that will introduce powerful social media capabilities familiar to today’s information worker. Project stakeholders will benefit from Genius Live! social interface improving team collaboration, providing a better end user experience, streamlining the flow of project information and increasing productivity among project teams and application adoption.


Genius Live! Highlights and Benefits:


  • Delivers familiar social media tools accessible on multiple devices.

  • Single-page view – akin to a social media wall or timeline – aggregates project updates and statuses.

  • Provides project managers and team members" instant access to vital project information. Increases user adoption and reduces email exchanges.

Genius Live! is available at three different levels:


  • Personal, includes all actions, notifications and communications sent to you.

  • Project, includes all actions, notifications and communications sent to you regarding a project.

  • Record, includes all actions, notifications and communications sent to you regarding a particular record.

  1. Genius Live! personal project wall


The Genius Live! project wall is the single place where users can see everything they have to be aware about projects, and everything they have to do on projects. On the right-hand side are listed all my open tasks and "To Do's", on the left hand side a window listing the communication stream for all of the different types of messages.



The right hand side pane displays all current logged users tasks and "To Do's". The user can directly update progress from this view.


The left hand side a window listing the social communication stream for all of the different types of messages like comments, workflow action requests, notifications and alerts. User can directly take actions from there.


  1. Accessing your Genius Live! project wall


There are two ways to access your Genius Live! projects wall:


From the navigation: Navigate to the [My workspace] tab and click on " Genius Live! – Project wall" in the contextual navigation menu. By default, this is the Geniusproject welcome page.



  1. Managing Tasks and To Do's from your Genius Live! dashbaord


As stated before, Tasks and "To Do" are listed in the right pane of the Genius Live! dashboard.



Using the drop-down list box, displayed items can be sorted by, "Due Date," "Name," "Project," or "Start Date".



It is also possible to reduce the number of displayed items in order to focus more on some of them. To do this we will simply use the "Filter" to specify a "Project" if the list is sorted by project or a specific item naming, if the box is not filtered by project.



  1. "To Do" layout in Genius Live! project wall



"To Do" name (title)

Here, AC"

"Check

new

regulation

for

The text is a hyperlink, clicking on it will open the "To Do"

Project the "To Do" belongs to

Here, "ABC Laboratory setup"



Edit icons, appears only on mouse over

By clicking on it, it opens the "To Do" in Edit mode.




Color deadline status bar


[Grey] = OK [Yellow] = at risk [Red] = Late



Progress bar

Display graphically the percentage of progress as well the figures.

For "To Do". Possible values are 0 and 100 only

Due date



  1. Task layout in Genius Live! project wall



Task name (title)

Here, "Demo"

The text is a hyperlink, clicking on it will opens the Task

Project the Task belongs to.

Here, "Demo Project"



Edit icons, appears only on mouse over

By clicking on it, it opens the Task in Edit mode.




Color deadline status bar

[Grey] = OK

[Yellow] = at risk (still before deadline, but actual remaining work is greater than remaining time)

[Red] = Late



Progress bar

Display graphically the percentage of progress as well the figures.





Remaining workload on the task for the current resource






Start or Due Date

If task started => planned end date

IF task not started => planned start date

The date display color, see "Color deadline status bar" above.



Input time icon

When clicking on the icon, it opens a pop-up window to capture task updates (see below).


  1. Update task from Genuis Live! project wall.

Clicking on the stop watch icon on any of the tasks, it opens a dialogue box to update the progress on the task.


See the chapter 7.8 "Posting Time to an Assignment without using a Timesheet" for more details





  1. My Task board

The Task-Board (as well as Genius Live) displays the tasks to which you have read access. It can be used by both project leaders and team members.


The tasks can be grouped by status, due date, etc., or filtered by "My Tasks" (further filters possible).






Here the example for planned start date to get your next month planning:





You can also report times and get informed who else is assigned to the Task.



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