Do you want to jump start new project planning? Start using project templates!

Wouldn’t you rather save time by using a project model someone else has already set up for you?
When you’re managing your projects in Planzone, you don’t have to worry about spending time designing and planning your projects from scratch. A wealth of project experience from the whole Planzone community is there to take you instantly several steps forward. With Planzone, you can benefit from using the Planzone community template database to quickly create and configure your specific project plans.

Project templates can be used in three different ways:

> Create your projects using a public project template

> Import project templates from the public templates database and modify them to create your own project template database

> Share your project templates with others in the Planzone community

Project templates can be kept private and be used exclusively by your team members on your Planzone. They can also be copied to a public database where the whole Planzone community can access and use them.

You should keep in mind some of the advantages it can provide to your company:

• Advertise your brand name on an expanding web 2.0 tool

• Publicize your company’s capabilities  by clearly defining your fields of expertise and project management methods

• Promote your company by inserting a link to your website or company information in your publically available project templates

We recently implemented some great new enhancements around project templates that allow you to:

• Create a project template from an existing project

• Include project documents as part of a template

These new features allow you to immediately reapply your best practices by re-using project documents, without having to re-enter task lists, milestones or activities.

Finally, we also revised our “get started with Planzone” template to be easier to use and we added 4 other new general public templates: sales event planning, email campaign, website launch, new product launch plan.