Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 26, 2017

This article, How To Start A Project As An Accidental Project Manager , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Help! I’m an accidental or new project manager. How do I get started? Simon Harris. That was one of the questions asked recently in Project Management Café, our Facebook Group (what, you’re not a member? Hop over and join us now! ). Simon Harris was our expert guest for the week, hosting the chat on the theme of ‘The Accidental PM’s Surgery’ and this is what he had to share about ho

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Ron Rosenhead

JULY 26, 2017

This was the sentiment expressed by one person on a recent project management course. This person was not alone; many of the group agreed. We discussed whether the sponsor should understand project management and it was agreed that while they did not need to know every technique they should have ‘a very good overview.’. It raises an interesting issue – just how much does a project sponsor need to know and how do we ensure they have that knowledge?

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Binfire

JULY 26, 2017

Jira is a popular bug tracking application developed by Atlassian and used by thousands of developers. It is used mostly by software developers and IT professionals for reporting and tracking of bugs in their projects. Because it was developed by software developers for software developers, most other professionals find Jira is difficult to use. This article is not a review of Jira, but to point to the advantage of having bug tracking as part of a complete project management application.

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Avaza

JULY 26, 2017

Keeping the entire team focused on the right tasks can be a mammoth task. Our new Resource Scheduling feature (read about it here: Part 1 & Part 2 , here) has been launched to help you plan and deliver projects confidently. Scheduled assignments created for your scheduling users are now available on the Timesheets Day View, allowing your users to quickly create timesheets.

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Brightwork

JULY 26, 2017

A report is described as a document with key information covering a specific time period, and communicated in oral or written form. Or, more commonly, the bane of every project manager’s life! Between gathering data, accommodating the needs of every stakeholder, formatting, and getting the document distributed on time, project reports are often a time-consuming task.

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