Hi Everyone,
I'm new to SmartSheets, and project management in general. I have a 3 year old company that designs, manufacturers, and sells kids toys and books. In the past few months we've been having serious issues with staying on top of the volume of projects that we take on for ourselves. We are missing deadlines, and as a result getting products to market late, which has a huge negtaive impact on revenue. It's our belief that the total workload is not too much, but that staying on top of all the projects simultaniously is too complicated. Things get dropped and forgotten in the whirlwind. We need a system. I think that SmartSheets could be the answer, if only I could set up a set-up that works.
What we need is a way to dump all new to-dos, and a way for those to-dos to be easily viewable. I have tried putting each project on its own sheet, but then I have to click on each sheet to see what my to-dos are. In the whirlwind of other daily tasks, to-dos start to feel burried within each project sheet. So on top of having a place to PUT the to-dos, we need to be able to see upcoming to-dos and dealines easily. So we need to easily CAPTURE to-dos, easily view the to-dos, and know when we need to finish that to-do by.
Has anyone delt with managing 10+ projects simultaniously? Do you have any advice?
Thanks for any assistance or insight!
