Run projects, not manage.

Project One is a ready-to-go system that can run any project.

• Every activity is in principle a project. Buy milk or build world's largest bridge, projects both.
• If number of tasks equals one, your project management tool would be a todo list.
• A project consists of assigned tasks in parallel and in sequence - in other words each assigned task must be allowed to be split into x number of sub-assignments. Delegation and distribution.
• A project is (almost) impossible to plan 100% as things happens and new tasks and assignments might be added, notes or files added and assignees changed.
• Thingamy's Project One can run anything you throw at it, with complete flexibility.
• Managing is what you have to do when you're not running something, it's standing in the manège with a whip and not sitting on the horse.
  
  

Oracle claims (OOW 09) that 20% of world GDP is spent on projects. Time to grab some serious savings and profits?

• With more people involved and a multitude of assignments a "Project manager" is named.
• He or she will then spend his/her days calling participants to get update, fielding requests for updates and updating lists, MS Project and spreadsheets. In short, clerking.
• Thingamy's Project One is a template that will run any size project from start to finish, deliver all reports automagically and letting the "Project manager" become a conductor instead of a clerk.
• A "Project owner" (or anybody with the right) can start a project at any time.
• Once started he/she will add the first assignments.
• Each assignee can decline, accept and do it as one task or split his assignment into any number of subtasks in parallel and/or sequence and any number of sub-subtasks - rinse and repeat. Hence an assignee will in fact be a "Part project owner" with the usual need to conduct the activities, report back and in general be on top of it all.
• Not limited to using the baton in full sight of the orchestra, the "Project Owner" can be allowed to add tasks, subtasks and change the path at any time. Again all from Project One with instant effect.
  
  

• In the "old days" the most meticulous of us planned our summer trips in the minutest detail. Routes and schedules were laid out, part of the vacation fun that; preparing and dreaming.
• Never did the details pan out, reality and less-than-solid vehicles saw to that, leaving the maps to sun bleach under the back window. But we had fun despite never getting to all the planned spots.
• Today we do the rough planning based on Google maps and experience. Once underway, connected with the world by mobile phone, driving a good car and directed by the GPS makes it all run smoothly despite weather changes or traffic jams.
• Projects are still like car trips in those "old days", maps with detailed routes and schedules are well prepared, then almost never updated as reality makes even the best laid plans moot.
• Projects need a nimble car with a well laid out driving position and a GPS. Thingamy Projects is the first "GPS equipped vehicle for projects".
  
  

With Project One you don't have to (but can, if found useful):

• Use email.
• Go to meetings.
• Write reports. Thingamy's Projects system does that continuously.
• Request updates. All is visible.
• Answer requests for updates.
• Looking for stuff. In email clients, file trees and document handling systems.
• Update spreadsheet and project management tools.
• Spend time with to-do lists.
• Fire up any other software.

Instead you focus on actual work and share it with your team or group or everybody else.

• Thingamy's Project One runs on any operating system (currently compiled on Windows, Linux and OS X) and requires no other software.
• It can be on-premises or in the cloud. We can even run it as a service if need be.
• Install is copy and paste then start.
• Implementation requires, once started, an update to participants via web interface or by import (XML or CSV). Other implementation issues depends on scope - including connection via API to other systems etc.
  
  

• €30 per user and month once up and running to full satisfaction, no binding. Users equals all team / group / department / company users depending on scope.
• Admin has it's own interface for settings and tweaks to/adding of workflows, reports, property fields and more.
• Layout specific files are open and accessible.
  
  

Simple and typical process from start to finish of a project.

	A bit of admin before you start using it first time. Adding users and a list of your organisation's typical "Project types" so you can organise a bit later. Users can be added by import of XML or CSV files as well, but passwords and roles must be set.
	Not many participants in this example...
	Log on as a "team member" or as in this example as a "Project owner" and find a list of reports in the bottom right corner. All reports are generated on the fly and are thus real time.
	The reports is the place to start activities, in this case "Start a new project" according to project type. Click on blue text and the "object" expands showing all properties as well as all current and former projects of each type. Click on one of the projects and it expands including showing all assignments and so forth.
	Once "Go" is clicked the first tasks pops up immediately. Just having started a new project that would of course be "Define the project".
	Next task follows automagically and now it would be "Add the first task / assignment". All projects have at least one task so one has to be assigned, to yourself as well obviously.
	Choosing assignee happens in the same interface.
	Who then is given a task (automagically again) where he/she is presented with all the details needed to make a decision - accept or decline. If decline it goes back to assigner who will have to reassign.
	When accepting you can do the assignment as one task or split it into sub-assignments that you assign to others or yourself.
	When a task assigned by you is finished you will be asked to review it with the option to send it back for more.
	When all's OK you will be asked if you'd like to add another assignment. Following a "Research" assignment the advertising agency project owner would probably add an "Art" and a "Copy" assignment. This happens on all levels of the assignment ladder, rinse and repeat until the whole project is finished.
	The project conductor formerly the project manager/clerk can now sit back and keep an eye on all as it unfolds. Better yet, she can add tasks to the project and notes to assignments.
	Any team member will (if you want) be able to add sub-assignments to all their own assignments, given or received.
	Colour coding your projects is one way to keep it all in an easily accessible (and boss compatible) view...
	Activities are displayed in the top left part of the screen - what the team is doing and who are we waiting for since when.
	If you have assigned tasks you can "take them back" and do them yourself until the assignee have started working on it. Somebody could be on vacation...

If you want to dominate your industry, please feel free to contact me.

Thank You.

Sigurd Rinde

Phone: +33 6 8887 9944, Skype: sigurd.rinde, Twitter: @sig, Email: sig@thingamy.com.