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Daptiv PPM: What’s new?

September 27, 2010

This summer, Daptiv’s acquisition by Parallax Capital Partners created a fair amount of chatter by the industry’s water coolers. The acquisition didn’t distract the team from the new release of Daptiv PPM. I caught up with the new CEO, John Baldwin, to find out the latest. “The Greenhouse is a part of our online community [...]

Software news round up

September 24, 2010

Learn PMP on your iPhone You can now get PMP Exam eFlashCards as an iPhone app! It’s a fully functional app offering over 1,750 exam Flash Cards, divided into 15 categories for targeted studies. You can click on each Flash Card to indicate whether you answered the question correctly or not, and get a summary [...]

Let’s play make-believe: addressing project management software adoption with user personas

September 22, 2010

“The role of director of user experience is pretty new,” says Steve Ballard, who has taken on this position at project management software company @task. “In consumer software it’s not so new. The product has to sell itself so the focus is on products that are useful.” The difference with software you use at work [...]

Projecturf: What’s New?

September 20, 2010

Last year I reviewed Projecturf and found it wanting. At the time, Chuck Pearson, the CEO, told me about the new features that would address some of my concerns about the software that were coming as a result of version 2.0. Version 2.0 is now here, so it’s a great time to catch up with [...]

Clarizen: What’s new?

September 17, 2010

Everyone seems to be releasing new software at the moment, and Clarizen is no exception. Version 4.8 of their project management software is now out and it has several new features including resource load simulation that allows users to perform what-if-simulation on resource assignments. This is a great feature, because it allows you to model [...]

Genius Project 6.6: What’s new?

September 13, 2010

It’s been nearly a year since I last looked at Genius Project. The team has been working on some new features, and I was keen to find out what they meant for users. I spoke to Christophe Borlat, the managing director of Genius Inside, to find out what’s new. Christophe, Genius Project 6.6 is billed [...]

Review: PlanDone

September 6, 2010

PlanDone has been around about two years, although the company says their concept for the software was formed in 1994. It’s a cloud based, hosted project management tool with collaboration features. At the top level of PlanDone you have projects, which are basically the high level goal you are trying to accomplish. These break down [...]

Review: Digite v6.0

June 18, 2010

Digité is head quartered in Mountain View, California and was started as a collaboration between two companies. The objective was to bring out a tool that would help people collaborate and fulfil the needs of a trend they had already spotted back in 2003, that of distributed teams. “It’s not a PPM tool trying to [...]

Social Project Management: new from @task

June 7, 2010

@task announced its new Stream platform last month at the annual user conference. Stream “combines the power of social networking with the structure of project management,” says the press release. “Stream empowers teams, increasing their acceptance of, and participation in, the project management process. With Stream, front-line conversational information and commitments flow upward, enabling greater [...]

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