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A Quick Guide to Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM)
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: A Quick Guide to Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM)Introduction As a project grows in size, the number of interactions and dependencies grow exponentially. Independent tasks become less and majority of tasks become more dependent on the completion of other tasks. For instance, take the case of a product launch. The marketing team has to bring out its messaging and identify the channels in…
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Understanding The Different Levels of Help Desk Support
Learn more: Understanding The Different Levels of Help Desk SupportIf there’s something strange in your neighborhood? If there’s something weird and it doesn’t look good? If you’re seeing things running through your head? An invisible man sleeping in your bed? Who you gonna call? … What if you need to reset your password, the printer doesn’t work, you can’t update adobe reader, you can’t access the…
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Understanding the 4 Types of Risks Involved in Project Management
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Understanding the 4 Types of Risks Involved in Project ManagementIntroduction Complex projects are always fraught with a variety of risks ranging from scope risk to cost overruns. One of the main duties of a project manager is to manage these risks and prevent them from ruining the project. In this post, I will cover the major risks involved in a typical project. 1. Scope…
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Huddle Software : Overview – Features – Pricing
Categories: Project Management Software ReviewsLearn more: Huddle Software : Overview – Features – PricingOverview Presentation Huddle.com is an enterprise collaboration software that helps businesses manage their content on the cloud. Touted as a Sharepoint alternative, it has a mini social network that helps employees create and browse through user profiles and enables file sharing & project collaboration options. It also provides you mobile apps to enable employees access…
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Adventures in Babysitting – Avoid Becoming Your Project Team’s Au Pair
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Adventures in Babysitting – Avoid Becoming Your Project Team’s Au PairWhen I first began my career in project management, my mentor held a coaching session with me and said, “Being a project manager is more than just delivering on time and on budget. It’s about being the steward for your project team. “ That quote always resonated with me as I started managing some of…
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Tenrox Software : Overview & Features
Categories: Project Management Software ReviewsLearn more: Tenrox Software : Overview & FeaturesOverview Presentation Tenrox.com is a cloud based project management software that helps you plan and schedule your projects, track time and expenses, along with tools to manage billing & reporting. Along with the website, it also provides mobile applications for Blackberry, Android and iPhone platforms. It is built on the Microsoft technology stack and integrates…
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TeamHeadquarters Software : Overview & Features
Categories: Project Management Software ReviewsLearn more: TeamHeadquarters Software : Overview & FeaturesOverview Presentation TeamHeadquarters.com is a project management tool with helpdesk support, made by Canada based Entry Software Corporation. It helps project managers with a wide variety of tasks ranging from creating reports to project scheduling. They also provide tools to help you design your customer service portal. It is currently offered both as a hosted-SaaS…
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Keeping a Lid on Scope Creeps
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Keeping a Lid on Scope CreepsThis article is supported by AtTask, online project management software. Request a Trial. Get a 360-degree view of all workplace activities, helping both team members and management to better understand and organize their work. Introduction If you have worked on big projects, you would know that the original size of the project during the requirement…
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Best Practices in Stakeholder Management
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Best Practices in Stakeholder ManagementThis article is supported by AtTask, online project management software. Request a Trial. Get a 360-degree view of all workplace activities, helping both team members and management to better understand and organize their work. Introduction Stakeholders in a project are those who are actively involved in a project, and whose interests are impacted by the…
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Populating your CRM – What data to collect and how to collect the data?
Categories: CRM ArticlesLearn more: Populating your CRM – What data to collect and how to collect the data?Quality customer data is the most essential component of a CRM and without effective customer data, you cannot make informed decisions. The bigger and relevant the database is, the effective your sales funnel becomes. In this post, I will cover on what data to collect and how to collect it effectively. What data to store?…