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Originally Posted by Finlay Boo
Hi,
Just wondering if anyone else in here uses 5pmweb to meet their collaborative project management and if/ how they link it with their own OmniFocus set up. If not, is the a similar PM application that works nicely with OF that may be worth considering?
I use the OF triple platform system to allow me to manage my personal tasks/ projects including creating tasks from an AdventNet Helpdesk system in which I use Applescript to parse the automated email that I receive when I am assigned a job, into a OF task complete with full details and a dated & timed due date. ( The script can be made available should anyone be able to make use of it). My personal system therefore works pretty well.
However, as a leader of 3 other developers, I'm constantly evaluating project management applications to see if I can widen this efficiency to the rest of the team. I'd like to be able to get an overview of progress of a range of projects (some of which will have been delegated to others) and get them into my review system. With 5pm I can download tasks as an iCal calendar but I haven't quite figured out how I can make use of this in OF.
Any pointers or any details of others' systems whereby you act as a leader for other non-OF users but incorporate their tasks into your system would be appreciated.
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Any web-based system that uses separate URLs for each page should be relatively easy to integrate into Omnifocus using clippings.
For instance, in Basecamp, when you assign tasks to other people, you could set up the task in Basecamp, assign it to them, then use the Clipping service or the Send to Omnifocus bookmarklet to capture the task as a waiting on or agenda item for that person.
To review what people are assigning to each other or have listed as their own to-do's, you could easily include that as part of a daily or weekly review. Create a review template (in something like Omnioutliner) or project/task and include in the links URLs to the to-do lists for ongoing projects. Review them, check them off in the project, and mark the project as reviewed.