From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Interview with Clarizen CEO and co-founder, Avinoam Nowogrodski

September 29, 2008

The mid-market project management software arena is becoming much more competitive.  Clarizen (click here to see my review of their software) is another player.  I spoke to Avinoam Nowogrodski in Israel to find out what sets Clarizen apart from the competition.
You’re the CEO and co-founder of Clarizen.  Tell me about the company.
Clarizen is a leading [...]

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Genius Project software review

September 26, 2008

I was hoping to have a review of Genius Project for you today, but I haven’t been able to get my hands on a demo account to trial it.  They are bringing out a new version next week and I’ve been told I can have access then.
When I do get a chance to play with [...]

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Software review: Clarizen

September 24, 2008

Clarizen is an online, ‘software as a service’ project management tool that has integration with other desktop applications.  It’s aimed at small and medium sized companies that can’t justify the investment in all-singing-all-dancing project management software, which costs a lot to implement in hardware, licences and training.  Clarizen has no hosting costs.  Licences start at [...]

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Interview with Vadim Katcherovski

September 22, 2008

Earlier this month I reviewed Easy Projects .NET, a project management package from Logic Software.  There’s a bit of a trend with more and more players coming into the project management tools arena, and more companies are leaning towards web-based tools that help with collaborative working.  Easy Projects .NET is used in 27 countries, and [...]

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Site updates

September 21, 2008

I have now enabled this site to work with gravatars, so if you post a comment your image will appear.  I’ve also re-structured some of the categories, splitting out book and software reviews and adding a new ‘events’ category for things that don’t fall neatly into ‘networking’ or ‘conferences’.
I’ve also added PM Majik to the [...]

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Interview with Dean Carlson

September 18, 2008

Earlier this week I reviewed Viewpath Express, a free web-based project management tool.  Viewpath is not positioning itself as a rival to Microsoft Project, so I thought it would be interesting to find out what they are aiming for with their project management software.  I interviewed Dean Carlson, CEO, to ask him.
Microsoft Project tends to [...]

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Software review: Viewpath Express

September 15, 2008

Viewpath 2.0 is web-based project management tool.  Earlier this month the company announced at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco that it was making Viewpath Express free and available to anyone.  They can do this because there are adverts all down the right hand side of the page.  They also have another version, Viewpath [...]

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Progression of women in PM: new research

September 13, 2008

Zuzana Botkova, an MBA student, is writing her dissertation on the progression of women in project management.   The main areas of focus for her research are motivation, challenges, leadership behaviours and the soft skills and emotional intelligence of project managers.
She has already scheduled research interviews with male and female project managers, and the second [...]

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Who is the city?

September 12, 2008

I’m running late. Not very – in fact, I’ll probably arrive just about on time. But the person I’m meeting has already sent me a text to say she’s there. I dash through the revolving doors and up the stairs. As she said, she’s sitting at the first table.
“Hello, are you [...]

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Software Review: Easy Projects .NET

September 10, 2008

This month I’ve been looking at various project management software tools and Easy Projects .NET has been on my list to investigate for quite some time.  Amanda set me up with a demo account and I had a test drive.
The first time you log in the tutorial page appears with seven easy steps to getting [...]

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