what time is it? ...5pm

In today's workplace, team work is pretty unavoidable. Very rarely do we see places where you can work by yourself and get things accomplished. For example, one area people may say that solitude is good is that of research. I agree that while doing focused research is probably better done by a subject matter expert, at some point, this topic has to be published and then adopted to be turned into something useful. Even technology transfers require teams. Teams today are dynamic and require a lot of planning and coordination. As teams grow and budgets shrink due to the lovely economy, group dynamics has to be well-coordinated as increasingly complicated tasks now have to be accomplished quicker and more efficiently than ever before. On web app that assists teams in setting and then successfully meeting deadlines is 5pm. This website is awesome!

5pm offers a variety of tools to help manage both short and long term tasks. Being centrally accessible allows all members of the team access to useful data concerning with project planning. 5pm offers a customizeable interface that displays a gantt chart outlining project sub tasks and deadlines. There is a section called “My stuff” that provides each member of the team their own space where they can keep tabs on items that are related to themselves. The site offers RSS support so when a project manager moves a deadline out another week, each affected member is now informed and can relax knowing they have more time to complete their specific task. Project leads can even export reports to CSV. This app is able to link into various calendar applications such as Apple iCal, Google calendar, and any other that supports iCalendar format. The auto-archive options is also a useful features as tasks which were at some point taken off the table are suddenly required again.

The cost of adopting 5pm in your work place depends a number of factors such as the number of people in the group, number of projects the site will manage, and your file storage requirements. The cheapest plan starts at $18/month for 5 users, 10 projects, and 300Mb of storage space. The most expensive plan is $175/month for unlimited users, projects and data storage requirements. As with another app I reviewed, 5pm also requires no infrastructure. All maintenance is taken off your hands and handled by 5pm….now can you find a better deal!!