About Schoolmeasures

SchoolMeasures (www.schoolmeasures.net) is a FREE, web-based project management application that provides just enough functionality to organize and track work to keep projects moving in the right direction.  It facilitates a simple protocol around the creation and management of lists, and drives progress and accountability for follow-through by letting everyone on the team know what is the next step and who is responsible.  It does not require project management skills, and it does not confuse inexperienced project leaders with project management language and functionality they may not understand, such as GANTT charts.

 

Projects usually fail not because of poor design but because of poor execution 

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But systemic reform is essential to improving student performance.  Better project management will deliver better results.  Schoolmeasures makes better project management easy and increases the chances that projects critical to reform will succeed. 

Schoolmeasures addresses the main causes of project failure

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Things won't get overlooked or fall through the cracks.  Schoolmeasures not only makes it easy for project leaders to plan and orchestrate work, but its collaborative capabilities also enables everyone on the team, including the project sponsors, to continually monitor project status in real-time, address issues as soon as they arise and add tasks that may have been missed in the initial planning. 

Work gets done because transparency drives follow-through

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Schoolmeasures keeps the spotlight on the individuals who have to do the work.  Every member of the project team can see the detailed status of every request until completion.  SchoolMeasures keeps a time-stamped running record of what's been requested, what's in progress, and what's been done, so misunderstandings are avoided.  It is clear who has done what.  At any time, all parties can know what is the next step, and who is responsible.  There is a clear stream of communications for each work item; requests for new information or decisions do not get buried under a mountain of emails.  Every work item is prominently displayed until the person who originated the item is satisfied and sets the status to "closed".

Product features

• Designed specifically for schools to be ready to use out-of-the-box
  • Users are pre-enrolled, roles are established for the service environment
• Web-based and easy-to-use; no software to load, minimal training required
• Pre-formatted reports in HTML and PDF for meetings and presentations that show 
  • Priority and status of each work item
  • Who is responsible for the next step
  • New, completed, outstanding and highest priority work items
  • Overall project summaries with color codes for project status 
  • Productivity metrics such as average time to completion
• Time-stamped events log makes it clear who has done what
• Collaborative capabilities facilitate management, discussions and teamwork across organizational boundaries
  • Can quickly see what others have been doing
  • Leverages the power of the entire team to keep the project on track
• Settings for priority, status, date due and other work parameters
• Optional email alerts when projects are updated 
• Dashboard provides key data at-a-glance
• Smart page layout is easy to read; takes advantage of wide screens
• Super-fast editing; advance AJAX design eliminates waiting for pages to reload

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