As a Project Manager that manages large projects (over 200 tasks) and travels quite a bit and finds myself in low bandwidth environments (hotels, airports, supplier/vendor guest wifi, heck even intra company locations were I don't have a dedicated docking station or CAT5 connection, and I am reduced to that guest company wifi. All these situations create a terrible environment to use a Cloud based software like WorkFront. I often find myself, for fear of disenchanting my audience, pre-printed PDF's or exporting my timelines in MS Project to share with large groups or executives, that alternative of having them slowly watch changes to tasks, durations, assignments, viewing reports or critical path would be unbearably slow. My solution (IDEA) would be to provide us project managers an option to "work offline" much like many programs have. Once the option was selected, imagine WF creating a temp file that stored a predefined amount of data (may just the timeline elements, and the sub-task information, and maybe only allow updates to some basic elements, all to be stored in the temp file, to be updated back to the cloud, at a convenient time (preferably while I am sleeping) instead of wasting a bunch of audience time (many of which now see this slow software tool and create a first impression from that. The irony is as I am typing this message, the letters on the page of this text take almost 2 seconds each to arrive. Very very slow!
