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Project, Programme & Portfolio Management

In Smartsheet Unlocked Episode 11, we get to chat with Inês Barbosa, Director of Portfolio Management at RxCelerate, an outsourced drug discovery and development company that provides a comprehensive suite of services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Inês shares her journey from a career in the laboratory to portfolio management, from being a Smartsheet newbie to a presenting at Smartsheet user group and leading a transformation in work management at RxCelerate with the introduction of Smartsheet as the company's Project and Portfolio Management platform, as well as it being used for so much more. She also shares her top tips for getting started, growing adoption and her favourite feature.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Smartsheet Unlocked
00:56 Meet Inês Barbosa: Head of Portfolio Management
03:10 About RxCelerate
04:35 Role and Vision of Portfolio Management
07:58 Inês' Scientific Background
09:48 Transition to Project Management
13:36 Exploring Smartsheet for RxCelerate
18:10 Implementing Smartsheet: Challenges and Learnings
24:46 Benefits of Smartsheet Implementation
25:46 The Power of Centralised Metrics
26:10 Collaboration Across Departments and Clients
26:27 The OHIO Principle: Only Handle It Once
27:00 Management Visibility and Reporting
28:01 User Adoption Journey
32:00 Smartsheet's Versatility in Operations
33:09 Client-Facing Solutions and Innovations
36:50 The Impact of User Groups
40:54 Advice for New Smartsheet Users
43:04 Favourite Features and Future Requests
46:10 Shoutouts and Final Thoughts

Quick Links:

•Inês Barbosa LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/in%C3%AAs-barbosa-600814144/
•RxCelerate website: https://www.rxcelerate.com/
•Smartsheet User Groups https://www.smartsheet.com/user-groups
•For more podcast episodes, head to our Podcast page: ⁠https://www.getprodactive.com/podcast/

About Prodactive:

We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner helping clients all over the world, from North America, Europe to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

Rich Coles has over 20 years experience working within multi-national organisations helping deliver projects and programmes at a local and global level, from new product launches in FMCG, to people and process transformation in pharma, refurbishments in retail and real estate.

Leveraging this experience, a core expertise in cross-functional working, project and programme management and a deep knowledge of how to get the best out of Smartsheet, we help organisations maximise productive working and unlock unrealised business opportunities by harnessing the power of data and business insights.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch.

•Prodactive website: ⁠https://www.getprodactive.com ⁠
•Rich Coles on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-coles/⁠

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We love the flexibility you get with Smartsheet to work the way that's best for you. I traditionally like to manually provide my project updates as I can summarise that information better for stakeholders, but in simpler projects you might want to automate the reporting of what's been completed recently, say the past 14 days, and what's due to be completed in the next 14 days. So we've created an alternative version that automates this.

To download the template with the formulas in, head to our Simple Project Solution page: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/simple-project-solution

We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner, helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

Rich Coles has over 20 years experience working within multi-national organisations helping deliver projects and programmes at a local and global level, from new product launches in FMCG, to people and process transformation in pharma, refurbishments in retail and real estate.

Leveraging this experience, a core expertise in cross-functional working, project and programme management and a deep knowledge of how to get the best out of Smartsheet, we help organisations maximise productive working and unlock unrealised business opportunities by harnessing the power of data and business insights.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-coles/

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Can you see who or what is blocking progress on your projects? Smartsheet is such a versatile platform for project management and there are so many ways to enhance how you manage your work. In our projects we've added columns to see what predecessors could be blocking progress and what subsequent tasks could be impacted.

To download the template with the formulas in, head to our Simple Project Solution page: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/simple-project-solution

We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

Rich Coles has over 20 years experience working within multi-national organisations helping deliver projects and programmes at a local and global level, from new product launches in FMCG, to people and process transformation in pharma, refurbishments in retail and real estate.

Leveraging this experience, a core expertise in cross-functional working, project and programme management and a deep knowledge of how to get the best out of Smartsheet, we help organisations maximise productive working and unlock unrealised business opportunities by harnessing the power of data and business insights.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-coles/

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There really is no excuse for poor project management these days. Complex projects, yes, things will go wrong when you're managing projects because projects are about managing change, but poor project management, lack of visibility, lack of collaboration should be a thing of the past.

At Prodactive we help clients around the world embrace Modern Project Management leveraging Smartsheet. One of the ways we get started is by conducting a maturity assessment to understand how things are currently, what the biggest priorities are and then developing an action plan that addresses not only technology, but also process, and we know some great people if they are needed too!

If you're looking to make a step-change in your organisation's projects and transform your transformation projects, get in touch. Head across to our webpage for more details and to download the example report and questionnaire https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/ppm-maturity-assessment/

We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

Rich Coles has over 20 years experience working within multi-national organisations helping deliver projects and programmes at a local and global level, from new product launches in FMCG, to people and process transformation in pharma, refurbishments in retail and real estate.

Leveraging this experience, a core expertise in cross-functional working, project and programme management and a deep knowledge of how to get the best out of Smartsheet, we help organisations maximise productive working and unlock unrealised business opportunities by harnessing the power of data and business insights.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch.

https://www.getprodactive.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-coles/

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Launching winning products is a complex process, but the collaboration and the management doesn't need to be.

Accelerate your time to market and ensure the teams are focused on developing the best products, not struggling with fragmented communication, lack of visibility and collaboration. Ensure your leadership teams can see progress and add value, rather than chasing for regular updates.

This video is a quick run-though of Prodactive's New Product Development accelerator, which is one of many solutions that can be fully customised to your business needs.

For more information, visit our website: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/better-product-development

We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

Rich Coles has over 20 years experience working within multi-national organisations helping deliver projects and programmes at a local and global level, from new product launches in FMCG, to people and process transformation in pharma, refurbishments in retail and real estate.

Leveraging this experience, a core expertise in cross-functional working, project and programme management and a deep knowledge of how to get the best out of Smartsheet, we help organisations maximise productive working and unlock unrealised business opportunities by harnessing the power of data and business insights.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-coles/

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We love personalised dashboards in Smartsheet where users can see just their tasks across many projects and update them directly. And even better, we love this solution where you can create a weekly reminder to go out only to people with active tasks or items and list the names of the projects and the number of items, as well as a link to go and check their dashboard.

This is a more complex solution and requires Pivot App, an Advanced add-on from Smartsheet, but if you've got it, you can crack this solution. Or if you need help cracking it, get in touch!

To see the process flow for this, click on the link and complete the form to download: https://www.getprodactive.com/demo-asset/multi-project-reminders/

We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

Rich Coles has over 20 years experience working within multi-national organisations helping deliver projects and programmes at a local and global level, from new product launches in FMCG, to people and process transformation in pharma, refurbishments in retail and real estate.

Leveraging this experience, a core expertise in cross-functional working, project and programme management and a deep knowledge of how to get the best out of Smartsheet, we help organisations maximise productive working and unlock unrealised business opportunities by harnessing the power of data and business insights.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch.

https://www.getprodactive.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-coles/

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Be alerted when something changes on your project that's going to impact a critical deadline, such as a launch date.

In this video, Rich Coles from Prodactive shares a quick tip on how to effectively add deadlines to your project schedules using Smartsheet. Learn to set up deadline alerts to ensure you're notified if changes affect critical dates, improving your project management process. This guide not only helps you keep track of project timelines but also ensures that any deviations are promptly flagged and addressed. Watch now to enhance your project management skills with these practical insights!

And for our PMO Template, download it for free here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/simple-pmo-template

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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One of the fundamental principles of project management is capturing project learnings. Yet the reality is the actual practice of capturing project learnings typically ranges from sporadic to non-existent.

With today's technology and collaboration and PPM platforms such as Smartsheet, there simply is no excuse for not doing this better.

In this video we demonstrate a Smartsheet solution that enables you to capture project learnings at a portfolio level yet make this easy at a project level. To download the Learnings Register template in this video and for a more detailed article on 'Learning to do project learnings better', head across to our webpage https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/project-learnings/

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.getprodactive.com/contact-us/

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.getprodactive.com/

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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A question we're often asked about Resource Management by Smartsheet is whether you can record and track time by task, rather than just by project. Well, now that tracking by phase has been enabled, this means you CAN now track by task as well if you do a little hack and make your tasks appear as phases!

Here's a little demo to give you an idea as to how you could approach this if this is something you need to do...

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We've got some great free templates available on our website and would be delighted to chat to you about more advanced PMO or project management needs leveraging our extensive industry experience leading projects, programmes and portfolios in world-class organisations.

Nowadays, we're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk/modern-project-management

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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Solutions

Launching winning products is a complex process, but the collaboration and the management doesn't need to be.

Accelerate your time to market and ensure the teams are focused on developing the best products, not struggling with fragmented communication, lack of visibility and collaboration. Ensure your leadership teams can see progress and add value, rather than chasing for regular updates.

This video is a quick run-though of Prodactive's New Product Development accelerator, which is one of many solutions that can be fully customised to your business needs.

For more information, visit our website: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/better-product-development

We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

Rich Coles has over 20 years experience working within multi-national organisations helping deliver projects and programmes at a local and global level, from new product launches in FMCG, to people and process transformation in pharma, refurbishments in retail and real estate.

Leveraging this experience, a core expertise in cross-functional working, project and programme management and a deep knowledge of how to get the best out of Smartsheet, we help organisations maximise productive working and unlock unrealised business opportunities by harnessing the power of data and business insights.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-coles/

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Here's a demo on how to use Smartsheet as a Service desk and ticketing solution.

Smartsheet is remarkably flexible and we love to help clients maximise the value of their investment and use it in as many ways across their business.

Many organisations have processes in place where they need to track requests from people, for example a service desk. With this solution that leverages Dynamic View, a Smartsheet premium application, you can create an elegant and sophisticated solution that enables visibility for requesters, service desk agents and for management alike.

For more info go to: https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/service-desk-ticketing-solution/

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.getprodactive.com/

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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At Prodactive we love innovating with Smartsheet. Here we showcase our Smart Image-to-Cell add-on that takes images that are submitted via a form or attached to a row and automatically posts the images into cells in the sheet so they can be used in dashboards, reports, automations, PDF documents and update requests.

In this demo, we showcase an example from a property renovation using Smartsheet to record snags and to create a punch list.

To find out more about this feature we are offering as an add-on to Smartsheet's native functionality and to get it enabled for your Smartsheet solutions, please visit our webpage https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smart-image-to-cell

Any any other questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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While Smartsheet is pretty intuitive, the level of flexibility and choice can be daunting for some people just getting started.

Given we're experts in Smartsheet and experts in Project Management, we've created a PMO template that leverages the power of Smartsheet into a simple solution for use with portfolios and programmes.

This video is a brief overview. You can see a full walk-through on our website and download the template with guidance instructions there: https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/simple-pmo-template/

This template is ideal for people starting out with Smartsheet and wanting a simple yet effective PMO solution that demonstrates some of Smartsheet’s core capabilities for collaborating on projects more effectively while providing a simple management overview both at a project and portfolio / program level.

It's one of many templates we have and is completely modular. It can easily be upgraded to incorporate additional assets as required, such as RAID logs, budget, change control, as required by the business and project methodology.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.getprodactive.com/contact-us/
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.getprodactive.com/smartsheet-trial/

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.getprodactive.com/

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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While Smartsheet is pretty intuitive, the level of flexibility and choice can be daunting for some people just getting started.

Given we're experts in Smartsheet and experts in Project Management, we've created a project template that leverages the power of Smartsheet into a simple project solution.

This is one of many templates we have and is completely modular. It can easily be upgraded to incorporate additional assets as required, such as RAID logs, budget, change control, as required by the business and project methodology.

To download the template and guidance for free, and find out more about this template, go to our website https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/simple-project-solution/

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.getprodactive.com/contact-us/

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.getprodactive.com/

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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We love getting as much out of the Smartsheet platform as possible and showing others a little of what can be achieved with it. So here's a solution we created for booking slots, for example spaces at a training event or a class.

View the video alongside our downloadable templates on: https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/booking-slot-solution/

⚡ Note you need to be logged into Smartsheet and currently the sheets are only available on the US Server. We will make them available on the EU Server so please check back or get in touch via https://www.getprodactive.com/contact-us/ to let us know which ones you want and we'll send them to you when available.

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.getprodactive.com/

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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Resource Management

The purpose of this video is to provide you with a user overview of the Resource Management solution from Smartsheet so you have an idea of what it can do and what to expect.

The Resource Management solution operates on a separate platform from your Smartsheet account and requires its own licences. It was previously known as 10,000ft, but has since been rebranded. This is different to the Legacy resource management solution available within the Smartsheet core app, for which I have done a separate video.

The full Resource Management solution is for organisations looking for a fully integrated resource management tool that enables them to have full visibility and reporting capabilities on the allocation and utilisation of resources, an ability to track time, find resources with defined skills and reallocate work. Like any application it has a wide range of capabilities to meet the needs of most organisations so it’s just a case of utilising the ones you need and knowing it has more capability as your needs develop. And like everything from Smartsheet, they continue to add more functionality to meet user needs so it’s constantly evolving.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

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The purpose of this video is to provide you a few tips and tricks when using the Resource Management panel within your Smartsheet projects. Note this requires you to have an active subscription to the Resource Management platform by Smartsheet, which was previously known as 10,000ft.

Here I show you how to pre-load your resource pool in your project timeplan so you can see availability directly without having to move across to the Resource Management platform to check availability where you're not looking to leverage the additional functionality the resource management platform provides.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

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If you use Resource Management by Smartsheet and want to allocate your team to tasks of hourly or half-hourly duration and for them to see the time they have been allocated to each task, here are some tips and tricks.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

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Here's an overview of the capacity view that is a fantastic addition to Resource Management by Smartsheet. This was introduced after our original overview video, so if you want a more in-depth overview, please have a look at Smartsheet Resource Management User Overview https://youtu.be/14fmH-VQV6s?si=rIcahIKQHTJdYocP

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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Here's a demo on how you can can do resource scenario planning leveraging the capacity view in Smartsheet's Resource Management module. For more detail on the Resource Management module, please see that video here https://youtu.be/14fmH-VQV6s?si=MZ1OakCcFD6ey9mP

For more info on the scenario planning sheet used in this video or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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With Smartsheet's Control Center, you can automate the creation of projects in Resource Management to save these having to be done manually. you can also pre-load the plans with placeholder resources to ensure your capacity plans are updated with the outline plan until the full plan is worked through by the project team and the individual resources assigned. If you want to reduce manual effort and also ensure your capacity plans include new projects, this is the way to go.

If you want a more detailed overview on Resource Management by Smartsheet, have a look at: https://youtu.be/14fmH-VQV6s?si=MZ1OakCcFD6ey9mP

If you want a more detailed overview on Control Center, have a look at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiijo37n3gP_bYk-7LAKVkaKJEecbGRwm

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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A simple example of how you can use Bridge to extract data from Resource Management and put it into Smartsheet.

To find out more about this solution, for more Bridge videos and to download Phil's 'Favourite Bridge Functions', or for help with getting started with Bridge and to understand how it could help unlock automation in your organisation head over to our website https://www.prodactive.co.uk/unlock-bridge.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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A question lots of people have asked us is how can we send reminders to people to complete their timesheets in Resource Management by Smartsheet. Previously this wasn't possible from RM itself, but now that Smartsheet have introduced the fantastic Advanced Reporting capability that sends data from RM into your Smartsheets, you can now trigger reminders!

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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For many of us working on projects or task lists, we have a set deadline when the work needs to be completed by, but if you are using Resource Management for capacity planning, you need to be smart about how you calculate the actual % allocation so you can still assess capacity effectively. This is all the more important for teams working on tasks that may take a number of hours and their work is being scheduled over the coming week.

The simple solution is to use a formula to automatically calculate the % allocation over the duration of the task based on the estimate of the hours or days effort required to complete it. You do this by dividing the estimated effort by the duration of the task - and if it is in hours, then you need to multiply the duration by the number of hours in your working day.

Note beware in Resource Management (RM), if you are working in hours, if someone is showing as 100% allocated, even if for 1 hour, RM will reflect that as a whole day.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

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With Smartsheet's Control Center, you can automate the creation of projects in Resource Management to save these having to be done manually. you can also pre-load the plans with placeholder resources to ensure your capacity plans are updated with the outline plan until the full plan is worked through by the project team and the individual resources assigned. If you want to reduce manual effort and also ensure your capacity plans include new projects, this is the way to go.

If you want a more detailed overview on Resource Management by Smartsheet, have a look at: https://youtu.be/14fmH-VQV6s?si=MZ1OakCcFD6ey9mP

If you want a more detailed overview on Control Center, have a look at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiijo37n3gP_bYk-7LAKVkaKJEecbGRwm

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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A question we're often asked about Resource Management by Smartsheet is whether you can record and track time by task, rather than just by project. Well, now that tracking by phase has been enabled, this means you CAN now track by task as well if you do a little hack and make your tasks appear as phases!

Here's a little demo to give you an idea as to how you could approach this if this is something you need to do...

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We've got some great free templates available on our website and would be delighted to chat to you about more advanced PMO or project management needs leveraging our extensive industry experience leading projects, programmes and portfolios in world-class organisations.

Nowadays, we're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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Smartsheet Core App functionality

Ever needed to add recurring / repeating tasks to a sheet automatically in Smartsheet? If so, here's the solution. Simply create a feeder sheet with the tasks and set an automation to send the tasks to the sheet at the frequency you want to add them.

The beauty of this solution is in the feeder sheet you have formulas, but when rows are copied, they become hard-coded, so the dates carried across become hard-coded too!

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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We love getting as much out of the Smartsheet platform as possible and showing others a little of what can be achieved with it. So here's a solution we created for booking slots, for example spaces at a training event or a class.

View the video alongside our downloadable templates on: https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/booking-slot-solution/

⚡ Note you need to be logged into Smartsheet and currently the sheets are only available on the US Server. We will make them available on the EU Server so please check back or get in touch via https://www.getprodactive.com/contact-us/ to let us know which ones you want and we'll send them to you when available.

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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Smartsheet is remarkably flexible and you can even use it as a dynamic content management system from data held in a sheet. In this demo we show how it can be used for an Employee of the Month dashboard where it shows the latest nomination.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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A quick video to show a fun feature we've added to an event dashboard - a countdown to show how many days until the event.

The live dashboard is on the Prodactive website: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/run-2024 - clearly if you view it after the event it will say zero, although we might change it to show days since the event so it remains live!

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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One of the videos we get asked most about is the project S-Curve, most probably because most people didn't think it could be done in Smartsheet. But at Prodactive we love cracking challenges others can't! We've made enhancements to the solution since the original video and given the number of questions we've received on it, we thought we'd re-do the video as well as provide the template set to help answer your questions as to how we've done this.

If you want to download the template used in this demo please visit our website at: https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/create-a-project-s-curve-or-glidepath/

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.getprodactive.com/contact-us/

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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We often get asked by clients if they can have more than the four colours for their project status reporting, risks or issues, as they are not content with x4 (red, yellow, green, blue/grey) in the symbols dropdown.

While it can add a bit more complexity to your metrics, you can absolutely do this by creating your own symbols list as a dropdown. So we thought we'd show you how, as well as letting you have some fun with our emoji sheets.

If you want to download any of the emoji sheets, visit our website at: https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/add-custom-symbols-to-your-dropdowns/

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.getprodactive.com/contact-us/

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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If you have a project or a task that has multiple dependencies from other projects and both of these will impact the start date of a project activity, here's a demonstration as to how you can so that by bringing these into a dependencies tracker. It's also a useful tool for a PMO to use to monitor the status of cross-project dependencies by pulling in live data on that task from the various tasks.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
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How healthy are your projects? Given how much time, money and effort goes into project delivery, it's worth stepping back from time to time to review this.

We've developed a series of assets within Smartsheet to help our clients do this this, including a portfolio project health check dashboard. We've also got a series of free resources on our website where you can do a project health check or portfolio maturity assessment for free.

And given we love continuously improving and learning, if there's anything missing from these you think we should add, please let us know.

Equally, if you'd like to have a discussion on getting the right balance between people, process and technology on your project portfolio, please get in touch.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact

For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

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Lots of people ask me "what is Smartsheet?" and why I'm such an advocate. So I thought I'd do a video that showcases the main reasons!

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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In the Smartsheet Gantt chart or timeplan, the default setting is for an 8-hour day that starts at 8am. You can amend the length of the working day, but the start time remains at 8am for working day durations up to 12 hours, and then starts at 00:00 for any durations longer than 12 hours. It also assumes 1 hour of non-working time between 12-1pm.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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In Smartsheet's gantt chart you can enter time in minutes, hours, days and weeks. In this demo I show a few tricks to create a tasklist showing the hours and minutes.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
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We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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In certain dashboard charts (pies and donuts) if there is no data, it can appear the chart is broken as you get a message saying 'Unable to display chart'. You can avoid this by setting up your data to provide a value if the actual metrics are zero and instead say 100% no issues or whatever the metric is. Then when there is data in the metrics, the placeholder value goes away.

The formula I have used here is: =IF(SUM([Col1]13:[Col1]15) = 0, 1, 0)

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
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We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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Advanced App functionality

A live demo to show how quick and easy it to set up 6 new projects in Smartsheet with all their associated templates from a blueprint. By using the 'automatic' provisioning setting, once this is running any project that is marked as approved in the intake sheet will automatically be created - in this case I have 6 projects that are all created within this demo. Good luck trying to do that manually in the same time!

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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The purpose of this video is to demo the WorkApps solution so you can (1) see the user experience and (2) see how easy it is to create and maintain an App

Note WorkApps is a premium add on only available for Premier, Enterprise of Smartsheet Advance plan users, but for organisations operating at scale and wanting an enhanced app style user interface and the other benefits that come with WorkApps it is definitely worth looking at and might tip the balance if you’re considering a Smartsheet Advance plan that comes with the other premium apps and Control Center.

Key reasons and benefits for Work Apps:
1. User experience – no navigating sheets or folders, simply select the App tile and the various assets associated with that App and user – with a user-friendly default landing page (note automatically optimises solution for mobile devices)
2. Optimised access to forms
3. Able to share Smartsheet reports without sharing the sheets
4. Admin – very easy to manage, including user settings

UPDATE: Smartsheet released Portfolio WorkApps in September 2022 so you will now be able to automatically create WorkApps for items created with Control Center. https://www.smartsheet.com/content-center/product-news/portfolio-workapps

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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In Smartsheet, cross-sheet formulas using index/match are really powerful, but there will be times when you need to reduce the number of formulas in a sheet, want the flexibility to manually update a cell or don't want data to update immediately. This demo takes you through that scenario.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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If your dropdowns in any of your sheets change on a regular basis, Datas Shuttle is the best way to automatically update these on any sheets and forms, taking away the need for manual updates. Simply create a download to run on a pre-defined interval (eg weekly) and an upload to run automatically when there's a new download.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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Smartsheet Dynamic View demo using two scenarios to give an overview of how it works and potential use cases - one for employee training records and feedback, the other for sharing specific info from a project timeplan with an external contractor where you don't want to share the whole plan

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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Sometimes you only want Smartsheet to copy certain information to other sheets, rather than the whole row. This demo gives an overview on how to achieve this using Data Shuttle to download specific information then upload it to the target destination(s).

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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Demo of how to set up an offload workflow to download specific data from a Smartsheet on a repeating schedule to an CSV or Excel file in your One Drive or Google Drive.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

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Considering whether you need Smartsheet Pivot App? This video provides a short demo of the pivot app and covers a number of scenarios where you would want this functionality along with a few tips.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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The purpose of this video is to provide an overview of Smartsheet Control Center and what to expect from a user perspective when applied by a Programme Management Office.

So what is Smartsheet Control Center? It’s an Interface that allows you automate the process for creating new projects with a consistent set of templates and structure that are all named appropriately and are automatically interconnected at a project and portfolio reporting level to your dashboards and reports. It also enables you to make global updates to projects once started rather than having to edit every item individually, and allows you to automate the archiving process for closed projects.

So while you can still manage a PMO effectively in Smartsheet without Control Center, as your numbers of projects increase, the risk of human error, key person availability and the admin overhead starts to mount up – all of which is addressed by Control Center.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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The purpose of this video is to provide a short demo of Smartsheet Calendar App and show you how you can take your calendars up a level compared to the standard calendar available in all sheets. Note this is a premium app so comes at an extra cost unless you’re in an Smartsheet Advanced package, but like all the premium apps, it will pay for itself in terms of increasing visibility and efficiency if you have relevant use case.

Key benefits
• Much more powerful calendar view than standard view with much greater choice and formatting for data and views
• Ability to bring together data from multiple sheets via a report (standard calendar can only do same sheet) and also control the data pulled into the report
• Embeds onto dashboard / website / portal and viewers are able to interact with items, update them and add comments / attachments as well as adding new items to the calendar if those settings are selected

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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The purpose of this video is to give an overview of how Smartsheet can be used to create an effective meeting room booking system for multiple rooms. Clearly this can be modified to many other uses, such as desks or equipment where items are required for varying timeslots on a particular day.

To create this system I have used the Calendar app and Dynamic View, which are premium applications, and can both be used for a myriad of use case, with this demo simply serving to show how flexible they are to meet many different use cases.

You can see and test the calendar for yourselves on our website, but for privacy reasons you won’t be able to use the Dynamic View functionality as I have adjusted the form settings so it does not record the booker’s email address.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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There are a variety of scenarios where stakeholders wish to view the trend of project status over time and the weekly / monthly snapshot. This can equally apply to financials, among a whole host of use cases.

In this video I demo how you can take a scheduled weekly snapshot using Data Shuttle and then add that snapshot to a rolling record that in turn can be used to feed metric sheets and dashboard views, as well as simply serving as a reference sheet for anyone wanted to see the historical data.

Note this can be done without DataShuttle by using the copy row function - it just means you end up with a lot more columns, but maybe you'll find them useful for future reference by having a history of the weekly snapshot.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch. We're an award-winning Smartsheet partner based in the UK, and helping clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

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Bridge

If you're looking to take your Smartsheet solutions up a level, then you should explore Bridge by Smartsheet. It's a no-code / low-code solution that enables you to connect Smartsheet to other systems with pre-build integrations or via API and HTTP calls - but it also allows you to achieve much more advanced solutions within Smartsheet itself.

You can create advanced workflows with complex logic based off triggers or a defined schedule. It's available as an add-on product for Smartsheet customers on an Enterprise plan and is included in the Smartsheet Advance.

This is a an intro video showing two simple examples:

1) Auto-translating content (such as a status update)
2) Creating a status update record by adding all updates as row comments, enabling you to have a record going back as far as you need (from when you set it up). This can provide an excellent audit trail on sheets and risk logs, given the history log only goes back 90 days and in many cases can be a cleaner solution than creating a copy of the row into an archive each time it is updated.

To find out more about this solution, for more Bridge videos and to download Phil's 'Favourite Bridge Functions', or for help with getting started with Bridge and to understand how it could help unlock automation in your organisation head over to our website https://www.prodactive.co.uk/unlock-bridge.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

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We get enquiries from time-to-time about automating Smartsheet hierarchy, and there are a number of community posts asking the same question. Is it possible or not? Well, the simple answer is yes! And in this video we show a couple of robust, scalable solutions leveraging Bridge.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

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Note: The first example (vehicle servicing request management) was developed off the back of an introductory Bridge webinar hosted by Smartsheet (19th April 2023) - many thanks to the host for helping us get started with Bridge!

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Smartsheet forms are a great way of capturing information, but do have their limitations. In this video, we demonstrate how Bridge can help you generate multiple rows from a single form entry, with a mix of shared and unique data.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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This video demonstrates how Bridge can be used to copy cloud-stored row attachments to other rows.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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A simple example of how you can use Bridge to extract data from Resource Management and put it into Smartsheet.

To find out more about this solution, for more Bridge videos and to download Phil's 'Favourite Bridge Functions', or for help with getting started with Bridge and to understand how it could help unlock automation in your organisation head over to our website https://www.prodactive.co.uk/unlock-bridge.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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A deeper example of the power Bridge has to elevate your Smartsheet solutions and save you time in the process. In this example we explore the nuances of Smartsheet's hierarchy and the inter-row relationships you can draw upon to build funky solutions.

To find out more about this solution, for more Bridge videos and to download Phil's 'Favourite Bridge Functions', or for help with getting started with Bridge and to understand how it could help unlock automation in your organisation head over to our website https://www.prodactive.co.uk/unlock-bridge.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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Completely undo all your hard work by automating the deletion of rows from your sheets. A unique and powerful use case for Bridge - use with caution!

To find out more about this solution, for more Bridge videos and to download Phil's 'Favourite Bridge Functions', or for help with getting started with Bridge and to understand how it could help unlock automation in your organisation head over to our website https://www.prodactive.co.uk/unlock-bridge.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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A flexible way of updating your sheets if they haven't been provisioned using Control Center.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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Smartsheet Groups are great ways to manage access to assets with groups of people quickly and easily. We did a video on that a while back.

Now these groups can only be edited by the owner or System Admins. Which is where Bridge comes in! Using Bridge you can automate the updating of Groups from lists in your Smartsheet. Now we recognise Bridge is an advanced feature that comes with Advance Gold, but Phil has been doing lots of videos on it showcasing how powerful it is and how it can help you take your Smartsheet solutions up another level!

Smartsheet's open API offers endpoints for managing groups. This video shows some of these in action and suggests methods for implementing this in a hands-off, scalable way within your organisation.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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In this video Phil explains the three key features of Bridge that have helped him unlock automation at scale within Smartsheet.

- Tip 1 - Get Report
- Tip 2 - Child Workflows
- Tip 3 - Conditional Junctions

For more information and a downloadable template, visit our website at: https://www.getprodactive.com/resource/unlock-bridge/

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.getprodactive.com/contact-us/

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.getprodactive.com/

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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Given how critical Smartsheet is to many organisations' operations, having back-ups is equally critical. While you can automate back-ups natively with Smartsheet, these are limited to weekly and only provide you with a zip file containing csv files of each sheet and the attachments, if requested.

But critically, this is limited to an overall workspace size of 4GB, and given you can't readily find out the size of your workspace, you may not discover you have exceeded the 4GB until it comes to downloading the back-up and finding it hasn't backed up... and that will come as a horrible surprise.

And you are limited to this running on a weekly basis, whereas for more critical operations, you may want this daily, for example.

You can always create a copy of a workspace using 'Save as New', but only if it has less than 100 items in it - and this needs to be done manually.

Using Bridge, you can get around these issues by scheduling backups of large workspaces within the Smartsheet environment, effectively creating copies of the existing workspace on a repeating schedule you determine.

In this video Phil provides an overview of the solution he has developed using Bridge that we use at Prodactive to back-up our critical workspaces.

To find out more about this solution, for more Bridge videos and to download Phil's 'Favourite Bridge Functions', or for help with getting started with Bridge and to understand how it could help unlock automation in your organisation head over to our website https://www.prodactive.co.uk/unlock-bridge.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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Smartsheet groups are a great way to control access to workspaces and assets quickly and easily - and are particularly useful for WorkApps. However, a particular limitation is that only the group owner (creator) and System Admins can modify this. And you can't currently transfer ownership of groups.

So imagine you need to make a change to a group and the owner is away... you have to call on a System Admin to do this. Or grant System Admin access to someone simply so they can do this, and in many organisations this not something you will want to do.

But there is another way... In this video we demonstrate how Bridge can be used to democratise the administration of group membership to ease the burden on key resources.

To find out more about this solution, for more Bridge videos and to download Phil's 'Favourite Bridge Functions', or for help with getting started with Bridge and to understand how it could help unlock automation in your organisation head over to our website https://www.prodactive.co.uk/unlock-bridge.

Any questions, or for help with your PMO Smartsheet solution, including using any of Prodactive's extensive range of solutions, please get in touch: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/contact
For a 30-day free Smartsheet trial click here: https://www.prodactive.co.uk/smartsheet-trial

We're an award-winning Smartsheet Platinum partner based in the UK, and we help clients all over the world, from North America to Australia, achieve great things with Smartsheet.

https://www.prodactive.co.uk

#smartsheet #projectmanagement #pmo

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