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Working through Copper Project Management vs. Contact via Email

 

Copper project management software allows groups of individuals to work on a project together, exchange ideas, make changes to the project, and efficiently control their portion of the project, even if they are hundreds or thousands miles apart. This software lets everyone involved with a project work at their own speed, at their own convenience, and still knows everything that is happening with the project.

Allows groups working on same project to coordinate easily

If groups of individuals within a company are working on one project together, they have to be able to communicate with each other, and to show each other what they have accomplished. Without proper communication then the project suffers. Copper project management software allows for the communication between people involved in the project to flow smoothly.
Many companies assign a project to several different people. The people involved may work in different departments, or even in different cities. One way that these people try and communicate with each other concerning the work they need to be doing on the project is via emails.

Emails have many chances of failure

When you send an email you have to rely on the email server to carry the email to the intended party, then you have to wait for the other person to read the email, and send a response. You waste valuable project time because not every person will check their emails every day. Sometimes emails fail to be sent properly through the server, sometimes they get sent to the recipients’ junk mail folder and sometimes they simply get overlooked.
The majority of people now receive hundreds of emails per day and when you are scanning those emails for ones that are important you can easily miss one that you really should have read. These missed emails from project participants results in project delays and frustration.

Copper project management works in real time

With Copper project management software, each member of the project can log in and see what the other members have done, what messages they need each member to read, and how to proceed.
When a project manager communicates to the other members via email, it is easy for them to forget to send an email to one party or to forget what duties they assigned to which member of the project. Confusion can quickly cause the entire project to be a disaster.
With Copper project management software, each member can see the project board in detail and they know what tasks are theirs, what tasks have been assigned to others, and what the most important tasks are. Each member of the team will know exactly what needs doing and will be able to communicate with each other as they proceed.

Fastest connection when one member needs help

When a team member needs help in completing a portion of the project, they send an email and have to wait for the answer. During their wait time, they become distracted and start thinking of other things and by the time they get an answer they have lost their train of thought and motivation.
With Copper project management services when a member needs to reach the other members the connection happens quickly and they can proceed with their work.