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Earlier this month at the DEMOfall conference, PlanDone announced the release of its project collaboration software of the same name. The software targets teams at small-medium sized businesses that need to plan and manage projects to completion with certainty.

So, what is PlanDone? According to the company's fact sheet it is a "disruptive and revolutionary" product that is transforming project planning. Some mighty powerful words, and I wondered what they meant by "disruptive," so I asked. According to Founder and CEO, AJ Wacaser, PlanDone is disruptive because, "We are blowing the model of project management out and turning it on its head."

How so, I asked? PlanDone follows a decentralized model focusing on the action steps where the real work gets done and ensuring that the highest priority work gets done in the optimal order to meet deadlines. Wacaser said, "Each day I go into work I have to decide -- what am I going to work on first today? PlanDone helps you answer that question."

Anyone who has ever worked on a project team knows two things for certain: 1) Most people tend to work on the tasks they enjoy most first whether or not that could potentially delay others and 2) A lot of delegating and sharing goes on between members that is never captured at the project planning level and it impacts everyone.

PlanDone helps teams skip the procrastination model and allows each team member to know the Top 10 things they need to work on and their order of priority. By following this model, project leaders can estimate with accuracy and certainty knowing the actions that must be taken, by whom, and in what order in order to get to the deadline on time. Take a look at the MyTop10 screen:

The software builds a visual representation of the project and its progress using a priority ranking system. Based on the rate at which you're really working, it is able to give you a realistic picture of what is truly happening within the work team. All that sharing and delegating that goes on organically can now be captured quickly and easily within the software by delegating work from your list of tasks. This allows you to balance the human element with the system so these activities get captured and accounted for easily. In this way the plan becomes more of a snapshot of what is really happening versus an uncertain guess based on a planning process that is not integrated with the actual work taking place.

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