Project Templates

The Project Templates allow you to define re-usable settings that can be used to quickly create new projects. The options that can be pre-defined include the following

• Template Name

This will be the name of the template which can be selected when using Project Template form in Progressive Capture

• Description

This describes the template and how or where it might be used.

• Status

The starting status for the project

• Details

Optionally add project name, description, quality statement, scope, type, supporting business process, type and budget, as well as the currency for any costs associated to the project

• Milestones

Add any standard milestones that would be common to a project. If you are following PMP or Prince2 you may want to pre-establish some of the typical milestones used in these structure project methodologies.

• Tasks

Create common tasks that would be required in this project, define relationships to milestones and or other tasks and set start and end dates relative to the project creation date.

• Costs

Create any default costs

• Risks

Create any default Risks

• Stakeholders

Add stake holders, their roles and hourly rates Useful if you have anyone that is commonly involved in all projects.

Once you have defined project templates, you can invoke these by adding the Project Template form to your progressive capture flow which is followed when raising and initiating new projects.