From the monthly archives:

September 2011

Use your experts

September 28, 2011

The best thing about going to the hairdressers is having someone wash my hair. The second best thing is being able to sit there for an hour and be lost in my thoughts while someone makes me beautiful. I don’t talk to my hairdresser about holidays or work, and we have fallen into companionable silence. [...]

Software September: news roundup 2

September 26, 2011

5pm and SpiderScribe.net I think we’ll see more and more software companies do what 5pm has done and incorporate links to other products, rather than try to be all things to all people. The team at 5pm has added the ability to connect to SpiderScribe.net for mind mapping. SpiderScribe.net is from Disarea, the same company [...]

Software review: UnleashPM

September 21, 2011

General information Name: UnleashPM Vendor: Nucleus Group, Inc. Hosting options: Web hosted version. The website says they also have an option for you to self-host it, but there are no prices for this Cost and plans: Free for 1 project and 5 users. $40 per month for up to 5 projects and 25 users. $85 [...]

Can you really work on an iPad?

September 19, 2011

Software September continues with a look at iPad applications for business. Last year, I got an iPad. I didn’t choose to buy one: it was the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards prize. I wasn’t expecting to win it, and I’d only ever seen one before. The people with me that evening were ecstatic at the [...]

Carnival of Project Management #36

September 16, 2011

Welcome to the August/September 2011 edition of carnival of project management. There’s a new project management website in town, PMChat. It’s actually the ‘minutes’ of a weekly Twitter discussion. You can join the discussion on Twitter using the hash tag #pmchat or you can read the summary at the website after the event. Rich Maltzman, [...]

Will Project Management Software Solve the Project Failure Problem?

September 14, 2011

This is a guest post by Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx. Despite the myriad advances made in project management technology in recent years, project failure rates continue to be through the roof. Each year, the CHAOS Report findings that are published by The Standish Group are dismal. The Standish Group’s 2011 CHAOS Study shows that [...]

Software review: TeamworkPM

September 12, 2011

General information Name: TeamworkPM Vendor: Digital Crew Application Developers Hosting options: Web hosted version only Cost and plans: 30 day free trial. From $12pm for a personal plan to $149pm for enterprise plan. Languages: 24 languages including Norwegian and Indonesian. Currency: Has a long list of standard currencies. Basic features: building projects Creating a new [...]

Giveaway winner: Facilitating Risk Management

September 9, 2011

Last month’s giveaway was a copy of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management by Penny Pullan and Ruth Murray-Webster. The winner was Fiona, from Dorset in the UK. Congratulations! If you weren’t lucky this time and still want a copy of the book you can buy it on Amazon. There’s another great book giveaway [...]

The Leadership Attitude

September 7, 2011

There has been a notable shift in recent years to talking about project leadership, as distinct from project management. Management, as the saying goes, is about doing things right, and leadership is about doing the right things. In reality, both leadership and management are often done by the same person – the project manager. But [...]

Software September: news roundup 1

September 5, 2011

Welcome to Software September 2011! This month I’m focusing on project management software, with a guest post from Curt Finch of Journyx about how software can improve project success, product reviews and news from project management software manufacturers. That’s what I’m starting with today, so here is a round up of what’s been happening over [...]

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