Mobile workflow management using TeamLab

To begin with, that to get acquainted with his first service for managing workflow, I generally poorly represented by their meaning and purpose. And now I can hardly imagine workflow without such a system. Working together even a small group in the presence of a variety of tasks, limited in time, it is easy It can turn into chaos if the activities and tasks of each employee are not recorded in the public interface.

Today we look at an online collaboration service. it is called TeamLab. Many people have heard of it, and some already in all its uses. Lifehacker has devoted to this service detailed overviewAnd today, we consider the case of work in TeamLab exclusively with mobile devices and see how convenient it is.

acquaintance

So, the mobile version has been tested on devices running Android and iOS systems. After logging into the system, we were met by the main screen with the main functions of the service. Just want to note that even on my an old HTC Wildfire with a screen resolution of 320x240 pixels service looks just fine. Obviously, on the mobile version of a good job.

And now for the work in each of the sections of the mobile version of the service.

Community

This section meets us a summary of the activities of employees within the company. Below the screen are subsections of life and activity of the community "Blogs», «Forums», «bookmarks"And"Events».

Forums are very convenient for the discussion and resolution of various business issues. You will always be able to express their opinions or share an idea from anywhere in the world, but blogging helps keep employees up to date. By using bookmarks, you can compile a list of relevant and useful links to various resources on the network and navigate to them directly from the TeamLab workspace.

People

This section contains a list of all employees, sorted alphabetically for ease. In addition, the search can be carried out through a special box above the list.

Right in the list are buttons for fast sending an e-mail. When selecting a particular employee to a page with detailed information about it.

Documentation

By default, when the transition to this section you will get a folder "My documents", Which stores personal documents that are available to you. Below the screen are subsections "Available to me"Containing the files that have been shared staff, as well as"General documents"That holds public files.

Due to the fact that the creation, reading and editing of documents is carried out by means of built-in to TeamLab, you can work with any document directly from your mobile device. In addition, you can create a suitable folder structure inside your sub and upload files from your device.

projects

Perhaps the most important part of any workflow management systems. In the transition to this section before you open a list of current projects within the company.

Each project contains a list of milestones, tasks, discussions, people associated with the project, as well as a list of documents related to the project. This arrangement greatly simplifies and speeds up the work on the project from a mobile device. In fact we have access to any information related to the project, press 2.

Below the screen there is a subsection "My tasks"By which you easily keep track of assigned tasks and manage them. When you open the task appears its description. Here you can add and read comments from other employees about the task.

Total

The developers managed to bring all pages to a single mind, making enough to understand interface of one section, then fingers will find the basic function keys in the other sections and menus. The most necessary for the functionality present: project management, task, contact, work with documents - are all present and implemented very convenient. If we add to this are constantly adding new features and optimizing existing ones, speed deployment from the ground and the presence of the free version, The TeamLab deservedly be called one of the best services for the management of labor activity.

TeamLab service site.