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Book review: How to do Systems Analysis

January 12, 2009

The strapline on the back of this book is ‘becoming a systems thinker’.  The authors have taken a practical approach to systems analysis describing the fundamentals of systemic thinking including problem definition and problem solving. How to do Systems Analysis covers the six main phases of systems analysis:  determining system goals, establishing a process and [...]

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Redesign project: complete (well, almost)

January 11, 2009

I can now understand how the people I met at Google had an unrelenting approach to work: coding is addictive. I got up this morning and started. I got dressed around 2.30pm and that’s only because I had only had two cups of tea and a mushroom all morning and I didn’t want to cook [...]

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Keeping up: aligning project management to real business

November 17, 2008

At the APM conference last month I spoke about the challenges facing project managers working in a 21st Century business environment. I first got interested in this as a topic when I started working in healthcare about 18 months ago.  The speed of advancements in healthcare technology is incredible, and every week there’s something new [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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Software Review: Easy Projects .NET

September 10, 2008

This month I’ve been writing various project management software reviews 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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People, not technology: new research

August 25, 2008

In June, Forrester released a report that concluded that IT projects are people projects: people management skills are essential for the successful design and implementation of the project. Experienced project managers will know that this is common sense. It’s rarely the technology that lets projects down: in fact, studies have shown that technology is one [...]

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