VIDEO: LiquidPlanner Project Management: Product Spotlight

welcome technology vice viewers to this week's product spotlight joining us today is jen ash the senior customer success manager over at liquid planner a project management software provider thanks for joining us today jen we'll go ahead and get started with the first question can you describe liquid planner in one sentence liquid planner is the world's only priority-based predictive project management tool out there that allows teams to manage their complex portfolio in a business environment that is ever-changing in a way that is data-driven yet usable and fun and so what differentiates liquid planner from the competition legal planner differentiates itself in many different ways first and foremost we take a completely unique approach to project management we have a patented algorithm running behind the scenes that looks at three factors of information your resource availability your task estimates and your organizational priorities to build a realistic schedule for you in looking at your resource availability and building that in liquor planner ensures that no member of your team is ever overbooked in looking at your organizational priorities it makes sure that your people your resources are working on the right things as far as estimation is concerned in the application we have you estimate in best case worst case ranges and what that does is it ultimately factors in the inherent uncertainty that exists in almost every project out there i may think that writing a document is going to take me an hour but it could take me 30 minutes or it could take me an hour and a half and building that uncertainty into the schedules from the very beginning really empowers our project managers secondly we partner with our customers one of our company-wide core values is service first i've been with the company for over five years working directly with customers and we are very much focused on making sure that our customers have the resources that they need to be successful additionally we are comprehensive in real time we offer one central location what we call a workspace environment for teams to manage their entire portfolio collaborate with their team and report on their project progress all in real time no matter when a change happens to your schedule due to the way that our algorithm works the schedule is automatically recalculated and updated so regardless whether or not you're a project manager on the team or a project contributor you're always looking at live dynamic information and in that real-time environment the app is also very flexible so if you're a software development team working in agile process or a it team running waterfall methodologies you can co-exist in the same workspace and stay connected it really streamlines communication and allows for global reporting across many different groups and all those things combined really gives our customers the confidence and the information that they need to deliver their projects on time you mentioned liquid planner likes to work with teams for agile and waterfall i'm just wondering if you prefer to work with one or the other and who your ideal customer is that's a great question our ideal customers are software development and i t teams anywhere from 25 to 50 members in size in organizations of 500 or more so how do you price the good planner i'm assuming it has a tiered model yes exactly it's tiered we offer three additions each with different feature and service options interesting and what's the current limitation for liquid planner we're out to solve a really complex issue and we built a very powerful solution to do it and we found that our teams who are most successful with the good planner have taken the time to build out sound business processes around how to use the application have architected their workspace environment in a thoughtful way and have really educated the users on how they should engage with the application and when this happens teams love liquid planner got it and what's a best practice what's something that you like to tell companies right before they implement liquid planar a recommended practice is to get everyone on the team involved the more project contributors that you have in the application making updates to their work and collaborating the more of a realistic schedule you'll have and the more information you'll have at your fingertips to make informed business decisions makes sense well thank you so much for your time today jen i really appreciate it i know i certainly learned a lot and if you our viewers would like to learn more about liquid planner or other project management software go ahead and check out our product selection tool where we can help you find technology that fits the needs of your work thanks for watching

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