Collaboration is a process defined by the recursive interaction of knowledge and mutual learning between two or more people who are working together in an intellectual endeavor, toward a common goal which is typically creative in nature. Collaboration does not necessarily require leadership and can even bring better results through decentralization and egalitarianism.

C-BRAT™ Project automated communication management includes the process required to insure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. It provides the critical links between project managers, executives/stakeholders, and team members, with information necessary for project success. The program manager is provided control to set an acceptable level of risk for his project. When the C-BRAT™ Project forecast of cost, schedule, engineering risks and other project attributes begin to exceed the set acceptable levels, C-BRAT™ Project warning panel provides a snap shot of the project health, by

Project Health View

identifying the areas of the project needing immediate attention. This also includes both the error log and incidence log of the project. It allows the management to accept or mitigate the risk.

The following four processes provide an overview of C-BRAT™ Project communication management:

Communication View

• Communication Planning - Allows the management to determine the information and communications needs of various groups involved in the project: who needs what information and C-BRAT™ Project instant warning messenger removes the need for who and how the information shall be disseminated.
• Information Distribution - C-BRAT™ Project instant warning messenger makes the needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Performance reporting - Performance information of each task is available to all stakeholders of the project remotely in real time. It includes task and project level EVMS charts, project cost and schedule probability curves, and corporate and engineering risk for each task of the project.
• Administrative closure - At project conclusion C-BRAT™ Project administrative closure provides verification and documentation of project results, to formalize acceptance of the project by the customer at no additional cost.

Data Access - C-BRAT™ Project offloads manager’s administrative burden by empowering team members through a simple intuitive single point of entry information capturing system. Program manager controls the data access between project managers, task managers, team members, executives and stakeholders via Information

Project ICAP View

Control Access Panel (ICAP). This provides structured project information flow to ensure the right information is shared between project managers, executives/stakeholders, task managers, and team members. It allows user to import data from various other formats such as Microsoft Project. It imports all available data about the project, simply by a click of a button. It can easily interface with the corporation's existing accounting, payroll, and inventory management system.