How to use Vector Project

Every part of the app, step by step, on the web and on iPhone. The same help is in the iPhone app under Settings → Help Center.

Vector Project on the web: the menu along the top, and My Work with promises kept, date conflicts, Your next move and the lists — My Work on the web: what's waiting on you, with your next move first.

The idea

Vector Project runs any project with handoffs between people, from the bottom up: a plant move, an IT rollout, a building fit-out. Every piece of work has one owner, who agreed to its date. The schedule is calculated from those promises, not drawn by a planner. When something slips, everyone downstream sees why, and who owns the delay. Every request, promise and change stays on the record.

Work you create for yourself is committed at once. Work you ask of someone else is a request: they accept it, propose a date they can make, ask a question, or decline. Nothing is on their plate until they say yes.

Help Center

Pick a topic, or search.

Getting StartedWhat Vector Project does, and the few words it uses.My WorkWhat you owe, who's waiting on you, and what you're waiting on.Requests and PromisesAsking for work, answering a request, and what happens next.Doing the WorkStarting, the checklist, what you need from others, and slips.FilesAttaching the work, versions, and withdrawing a wrong file.Submit and Sign-offSubmitting, signing Complete and Reviewed, and sending work back.Risk and Early WarningRating the risk on your work, and the project’s early-warning card.PhasesHow a project's work is grouped, and who changes the phases.Phase TemplatesYour company's standard shapes of project, set up once.The ScheduleHow dates are calculated, and whose delay is whose.Projects and TeamsStarting a project, who sees it, and who runs the team.Holding, Killing and Closing a ProjectPause a project, stop one, or close it when it's done.Who Validates for MeHanding signing Complete down to someone on your team.Your AccountSigning in, your seat, and where your data lives.

Getting around

On the web these are along the top; on iPhone they're tabs along the bottom.

My WorkWhat's waiting on you
ProjectsLists the projects you can see; open one for its work by phase, its phases, its team and its history
ScheduleThe calculated timeline of one project
SettingsHolds your account, Help and Sign Out