oDesk.com – A new way of finding resources for projects

By on May 21, 2013 in Project Management Articles
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The proper management of resources is one of the most critical components for a project to be completed within budget and within schedule. When companies decide to start a project, one of the first things they consider is where to get the resources for the project. Depending on the nature of the project, hiring external consultants may be the best option.

Global Job Marketplace like oDesk.com

When hiring external consultants, project managers carefully select the candidates, so that the skills match the particular task required to be completed. Nowadays, more candidates are available, with some located in different countries or even different continents. This is possible with online job marketplace services that offer the hiring and managing of freelance consultants, either individuals or teams, working in remote locations but connected through the Internet. Read the Complete Article

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Insightly Software Review: Overview – Features – Pricing

By on May 15, 2013 in PM Software Reviews
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Overview Presentation

Insightly, a web-based CRM and project management application, helps businesses keep in one place all the information they need to interact successfully with their customers. Customer relationship management (CRM) is not exclusive anymore to big businesses and enterprises. The CRM model of using technology to manage existing and potential customers is now available to small- and medium-sized businesses. Insightly is easy to access and use, yet powerful enough to bring people and projects together in one dashboard. But most of all, it is affordable to any business that wants to track projects, customers, tasks and other relevant information without the need to buy expensive software.

Features, Benefits, and Product Strengths

  • Powerful data organization, integration and automation. Users can organize and manage contacts and organizations as customers, partners, coworkers, vendors, suppliers or any other relation.

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Producteev Software Review: Overview – Features – Pricing

By on May 11, 2013 in PM Software Reviews
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Overview Presentation

Producteev is a task management platform that offers more than just a computerized to-do list. Since its launch in 2008 at the Le Web conference in Paris, it has now more than 2,000 paying customers, some of which are big names in their respective industries. What started as a simple web-based task management application has now evolved into a platform that allows users to collaborate in many ways and with many devices.

Features, Benefits, and Product Strengths

  • Dynamic Organizational Tools. From the Workspace, which is the first interface that appears, users can create tasks as well as invite people, if the project involves collaboration. Big tasks or tasks that need more time to complete can still be divided into subtasks. Tasks can further be grouped by using labels, which allows the user to organize tasks in a more meaningful way visually.

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Get Ready to Go EPM Live 4.4

By on May 6, 2013 in Software Latest News
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One quality of a great software platform is the ability to improve not only from within, but also to utilize improvements happening from without and offer it all cohesively to the customer. Version 4.4 of EPM Live has been recently released and it appears more comprehensive yet more open than ever. True to its promise, it is a project portfolio management (PPM) platform that can integrate with many existing systems but offer seamless control and monitoring from one work space.

Quick Connect Integration

EPM Live introduces the Quick Connect integration with its latest version. Through this platform, other business systems with their own database can be integrated smoothly. For example, with the Quick Connect for SQL Server, this PPM platform can utilize all existing data, tables, and groupings available in the SQL Server database of another system without the headaches associated with interconnection and data retrieval. Read the Complete Article

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Uncover the reasons why the office may be the worst place to work

By on May 5, 2013 in Project Management Articles
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In October 2010, Jason Fried gave a talk on TED, and that video has generated more than 2 million views since it was posted. TED is a non-profit organization that chooses to bring people from the technology, entertainment, and design (TED) industries through regular conferences. A co-founder of a company and a co-author of a New York Times best seller, Jason Fried, the president of 37signals, talked about why work does not happen at work. In his talk, he described the present-day office and explained why it is the worst place to get things done.

The Question

According to Fried, for about 10 years, he has been asking people where they would go when they really need to get something done. The answers he got can be categorized into three: 1) a time, 2) a form of transportation, and 3) a specific place. Read the Complete Article

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