Tool Shop: LiquidPlanner 4

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This latest release features extensive usability improvements and provides much greater access to all project participants. While the redesigned features might require some cultural shifts and changes to existing processes, the benefits in the areas of project accountability, "data democratization" and progress reporting are well worth it.

If you want to follow the evolution of project management applications to the cloud, look to LiquidPlanner as the benchmark for this progressionwith its features that make it easy to leave desktop project management applications behind. After releasing the Analytics Module (covered here by Andy Makar), the companywent to work on LiquidPlanner 4. The latest release sports a redesigned Project Portfolio View, extensive improvements to My Work (formerly My Tasks), and enhanced Status Reports. In total, there are more than 50usability improvements in LiquidPlanner 4.

I subscribe to the school of thought that project management applications need to be accessible to all project participants — the project manager, team members, executives, and other project stakeholders — so the tool needs to be usable with features not obscured in sub menu after sub menu. The LiquidPlanner editing experience has undergone a complete overhaul with the end result being a streamlined user interface that requires a reduced number of clicks…

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