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Welcome

Purpose of the PIEmatrix Wiki

Welcome to the PIEmatrix Wiki. This Wiki contains publicly accessible documentation contributed and maintained by anybody interested in working with PIEmatrix.

What goes in the PIEmatrix Wiki?

Guidelines for consistency

Who can contribute content to the PIEmatrix Wiki?

What to use PIEmatrix for

Why PIEmatrix and not my xls/doc/tasks etc. list?

Sample PIEmatrix Projects

Getting Access to PIEmatrix

Any Interested User

At Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium Schools

Usage Policy

PIEmatrix Login and Use

Your Own Settings

Email Settings

Log Out Timer

Projects

Getting Started

Layers versus Pie Slices versus Boxes versus Steps

Some Editing Suggestions

Issues versus Risks

Stacking of Projects

Examples

How to Stack

Templates

What are Templates?

When do you create boxes/steps in a template vs. a project?

What do you do in Templates vs. Projects?

Available Templates

Duration in Templates and how it effects Live Projects

What your Department should discuss before/when using PIEmatrix

Need Technical Help with your Project?

PIEmatrix provides the best resources for technical questions about PIEmatrix use so you can get help when you need it:

Videos: Most pages have a link to a video on the upper right-hand side (white area) with a video specific to the page you are on.
Tips: Most pages also have "Tips" which explain the main parts of a page right next to the video link
Help Center: Click on "Help" on the upper right-hand side for access to the software's own Help Center
Live Chat: the link can be found at the bottom right of the Help Center when you are logged into PIEmatrix.com
Phone support: 802.318.4891
Email support: support@piematrix.com

Wiki Edit Help

You may wish to use your userpage (click on your name at the top when logged in) to practice or "test" new content to make sure it looks good, before copying and pasting it elsewhere.
Wiki Cheatsheet
User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
Configuration settings list
MediaWiki FAQ
MediaWiki release mailing list

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 ===[[Duration in Templates and how it effects Live Projects]]===
-==What your Department should discuss before/when using PIEmatrix==
+==[[What your Department should discuss before/when using PIEmatrix]]==
-*Tags: agree on the tags. They act as the keywords by which you search for a project. Be mindful not to use for example HR and Human Resources. When searching you would need to remember to search for both HR and Human Resources to find all projects that relate to Human Resources. Also be mindful of spelling - tags cannot be deleted...
-*Naming of Projects: If you have a numbering convention or naming convention that you are using for your projects or do not have one yet at all - make sure everybody in your department knows the preferred naming method, e.g., by employee number, by project number, by area to which project belongs, etc.
-*Naming of Roles in Templates: it might be best to create role names that have a common theme at the beginning, e.g., HR Benefits Specialist, HR Retirement Specialist, HR... so that all roles related to your area show up together when you are assigning roles to steps, this will make the role assigning much faster
-*More on Roles: you are setting up a template because you will use this process again - imagine that people involved in the project change - now come up with a name for the type of person who will do this step no matter whether this year it is Sarah who is doing these steps and next year it is John because Sarah moved on - you want to have a name for the role that makes it clear what type of person should be assigned to this task
 ==Need Technical Help with your Project?==