{"id":5809,"date":"2011-06-14T23:41:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2011-06-17T18:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T07:18:43","slug":"manage-your-project-better-with-organization-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/diagrams\/manage-your-project-better-with-organization-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Manage your Project better with Organization Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>A while back, Indu did <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/examples\/organizing-for-success-1-map-out-your-organization-structure\/\">three amazing posts<\/a> on the different types of org charts. While org charts has been the topic of focus this week, we ruminated a bit on how we could use organigrams like never before. True, we did talk about how we could use <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/Draw-Organizational-Charts-Online\">org charts<\/a> in an unorthodox manner in <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/diagrams\/5-reasons-why-hr-managers-love-organizational-charts\/\">our last post<\/a>, but we wanted to push the envelope a bit further.<\/p>\n<div>You see, there are various tools that are used for project management, which have had varying degrees of success but we thought &#8211; Why not form your own customized project management tool using <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/\">Creately<\/a>? Confused? Let\u2019s shed some light on this compelling topic.<\/p>\n<p>As our first example, consider two teams of web designers who all report to separate project managers. As a project manager, you would call\/phone\/email your web designer and\u00a0divvy\u00a0up the workload (e.g. to design a wireframe). Make sure you agree on a delivery date and a WIP date as well. Once this is done, using the<a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/tour\"> collaborative features<\/a> of Creately you can easily see if the tasks are being done. This way you get rid of time wastage and keep track of each team member&#8217;s progress without having to invest is a PM tool that is both expensive and is good for just one particular use. Use an organigram (as shown below) to create a customized version of a PM tool relevant to your department alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PM-Org-Chart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5810\" title=\"PM Org Chart\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PM-Org-Chart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3w3koqe3hizre.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PM-Org-Chart.png 550w, https:\/\/d3w3koqe3hizre.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PM-Org-Chart-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>When inside Creately you would click on the blue icon to open up the <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/Online-UI-Mockups-and-Wireframes\">wireframe \/ mockup<\/a> below.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PM-Org-Chart-Mockup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5811\" title=\"PM Org Chart Mockup\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PM-Org-Chart-Mockup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3w3koqe3hizre.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PM-Org-Chart-Mockup.png 550w, https:\/\/d3w3koqe3hizre.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PM-Org-Chart-Mockup-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think that this is probably just a one-off example we cracked our brains at? Think again. Let\u2019s consider a marketing department where you are the boss. You have two executives working for you on various research projects. That big presentation is coming up soon and boy, do you need that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ansoff_matrix\">Ansoff Matrix <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PEST_analysis\">PEST analysis<\/a> in a hurry. Why not get your executives onto Creately and then collaborate with them. This way you would be aware of who has done what and when. Peruse the example below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marketing-Org-Chart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5812\" title=\"Marketing Org Chart\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marketing-Org-Chart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3w3koqe3hizre.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marketing-Org-Chart.png 550w, https:\/\/d3w3koqe3hizre.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marketing-Org-Chart-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again clicking on the blue icon, when inside Creately, will open up the PEST diagram.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marketing-Org-Chart-PEST.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5813\" title=\"Marketing Org Chart - PEST\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marketing-Org-Chart-PEST.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3w3koqe3hizre.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marketing-Org-Chart-PEST.png 550w, https:\/\/d3w3koqe3hizre.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marketing-Org-Chart-PEST-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aim of this post is to help you think and use <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/desktop\">Creately <\/a>from a totally different angle. All it takes is intuitiveness and some innovative thinking to use this smart app anyway you want. We\u2019d be more than glad to offer you more exciting tips on how to use <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/diagram-products\">Creately<\/a>. Plus we&#8217;re all eager to know what you think of how we have offered a new spin on things in this post, so please do go ahead and comment. In the meanwhile, stay tuned for some exciting posts from the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/product\/googleapps\/plans\">Creately <\/a>team soon!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, Indu did three amazing posts on the different types of org charts. While org charts has been the topic of focus this week, we ruminated a bit on how we could use organigrams like never before. True,&#8230;<span class=\"continue-reading\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/diagrams\/manage-your-project-better-with-organization-charts\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,686,50],"class_list":["post-5809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diagrams","tag-collaboration","tag-examples","tag-org-chart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5938,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions\/5938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}