Matthew Scott of The Strategic Incubator just wrote: "Internal Project Management: Backpack Is Our Choice."
Think of Backpack as your small business intranet where you share, store, secure, and discuss everything that is important for your team to accomplish a client engagement.For example, we are currently working on multiple client engagements. We have an office located in Greater NYC area and one in Portland. Occasionally we have specialty contractors from different parts of country. We needed a shared system enabling each person to access, share, and store information vital to the client project success.
I’ll share a brief overview of how we use Backpack within minutes of partnering with a new client.
When Company-X partners with The Strategic Incubator, a process is set in motion:
- We establish a Backpack page of Company X. It takes us about 10 seconds and then we click one button to send an automatic email and text message notifying selected members of our team that we have a new project page.
- Each team member gets to work adding to the to-do list, notes section, and the writeboard section to brainstorm some preliminary creative ideas.
Before Backpack, we would pick-up the phone and receive a work status a few times a day.
Now, we just open our shared and secured Backpack URL site from any computer and in seconds I can see exactly what our individuals are doing.
The full post also includes lots of sharp ideas for how you can use Backpack for your business.
