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To App or Not To App?

To App or Not To App?

By Brian Denten on October 28, 2013

Building a dedicated mobile app for a business is all the rage right now, and often with good reason. As Apple’s App Store, Android’s Play Store, and Microsoft’s Windows Market continue to see explosive growth after a half decade of revolutionizing digital development and distribution, it can be very tempting to use the platforms to […]

Posted in Application Software, Your POV | Tagged android, iOS, mobile app, mobile applications, project management, tech startups

On Cloud Adoption

On Cloud Adoption

By Ben Kepes on November 15, 2012

Clearly adoption of a new project is a result of myriad factors, but one of the key things to remember is that it is the non-technological human factors that are often the blockers to a successful project.

Posted in Enterprise, Trends & Concepts | Tagged adoption, appirio, cloud computing, Michael Krigsman, project management | 1 Response

FileTrek Fulfills Need for Workgroup Transparency

FileTrek Fulfills Need for Workgroup Transparency

By Ben Kepes on June 5, 2012

As more and more applications are enabled on mobile platforms, there is an ever increasing need to ensure that corporate IT and managers of workgroups have visibility over who accesses and makes changes to files. Historically there has been an emphasis on enabling mobile access, but a relative absence of focus on ensuring transparency over […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Apple, CoverFlow, FileTrek, ipad, iphone, project management

80-20: the deadly cause of IT project failure

80-20: the deadly cause of IT project failure

By Martijn Linssen on March 26, 2012

There seems to be a rush of IT failure topics these days, all trying to find the Holy Grail of project failure. While I hold that this is a world of AND and AND, not OR and OR, I do see a major cause for project failure for the last decade: shifting from serial processing […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged 1.0, agile, application development, architecture, business exceptions, business rules, management, pareto, Pareto principle, project management, Scrum, Supply Chain | 1 Response

Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not?  The Backdoor Experiment.

Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not? The Backdoor Experiment.

By Zoli Erdos on October 29, 2010

There’s a debate going on about 37Signal’s “hidden” “unannounced” price increase of their popular Basecamp service. Apparently most of the uproar wasn’t so much due to the price hike itself, but the fact that it happened without any announcement. Cinovate Cinovate Cloud Inn. Why did 37 Signal’s Basecamp price double unannounced? http://bit.ly/bLan2a Contact Cinovate for […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged 37signals, Basecamp, pricing, project management, transparency, zoho | 11 Responses

Lowering Risk at Decision Points

Lowering Risk at Decision Points

By Guest Authors on September 8, 2010

I’ve actually got the chance to catch up on a little blog reading this morning, and I just got to digest Sameer Patel’s wonderful post entitled, “Innovation 1.0, served here.” The bit that really hit home was this (emphasis mine): “By organizations embracing and encouraging innovation, that really doesn’t equate to every factory worker walking […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged conferences, decision-making, defragcon, feedback loop, hutch carpenter, project management, Sameer Patel

IT Project Slipping?  Just Throw in More Bodies … Not.

IT Project Slipping? Just Throw in More Bodies … Not.

By Zoli Erdos on May 4, 2010

As a former Project Manager I faced the above situation far too many times, and I second Dilbert, it does not work. Throwing in more warm bodies often has the opposite effect, you project just got more expensive but not a bit faster…

Posted in General | Tagged dilbert, it implementation, project management, projects | 1 Response

Project Management Made Easy: Rule 89

Project Management Made Easy: Rule 89

By Zoli Erdos on April 7, 2010

Project management guru and occasional CloudAve guest blogger (you hear me, Andrew?) Andrew Filev warns of the most common project management mistakes to avoid …  but even he doesn’t know it all comes down to Rule #89:

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged humor, project management

Project Management 0.6

Project Management 0.6

By Zoli Erdos on April 4, 2010

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged dilbert, humor, project management

33 Selected Blogs about Innovation, Project Management and 2.0: Vote for the Best!

33 Selected Blogs about Innovation, Project Management and 2.0: Vote for the Best!

By Guest Authors on December 15, 2009

What project management blogs do you read? I’ve assembled a list of blogs that give me substantial food for thought when I write on innovations in project management. The list also includes blogs that serve as great sources of information about Enterprise 2.0, new management methodologies, leadership, motivation, as well as useful project management tips […]

Posted in General | Tagged afilev, blogging, collaboration, innovation, pm, pm 2.0, project management | 6 Responses

Project Management a'la Dilbert

Project Management a'la Dilbert

By Zoli Erdos on November 29, 2009

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged dilbert, humor, project management

A Google Wave Use-Case – Agility in Application Lifecycle Management

A Google Wave Use-Case – Agility in Application Lifecycle Management

By Ben Kepes on November 4, 2009

I remember sitting enthralled at the keynote where Google Wave was first publicly announced – despite most of us being a little numb to general hype, most of us felt a bit of a tingle down the spine when seeing the Wave demo – it was just so goddam cool. Those of us who have […]

Posted in General, Product reviews | Tagged alm, collaboration, enterprise 2.0, google, mingle, project management, wave | 1 Response

Pbworks Ups The Ante With Real Time Collaboration Features

Pbworks Ups The Ante With Real Time Collaboration Features

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 3, 2009

When Zoho projects 2.0 was released, I wrote a post about the evolution of project management. In the post, I talked about the nature of Project Management 2.0   Project Management 2.0 can be considered as the combination of traditional project management with collaborative and social components In the same post, I also dug in […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged collaboration, pbworks, project management, real time collaboration, saas, social networks, wikis | 5 Responses

Intervals for SaaS Project Management

Intervals for SaaS Project Management

By Dan Morrill on October 19, 2009

Image by Geodog via Flickr For people who are familiar with Microsoft Project and other online project management tools, taking a look at Intervals might also be something that will help you work your projects smarter. I recently took a look at intervals, and found that in the competition for Software as a Service, Intervals […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged intervals, pm, pm20, project management, saas | 1 Response

Pbworks Adds Social Component To Their Project and Legal Editions

Pbworks Adds Social Component To Their Project and Legal Editions

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 22, 2009

In June this year, Pbworks (formerly known as Pbwiki) launched the Project Edition, an integration of project management tools with the traditional wiki. This edition was directed towards freelance consultants, advertising firms, design firms, etc. in such a way that the project management becomes an organic outgrowth of the real work done by these businesses. […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged microblogging, pbworks, project management, saas, Social network, wikis | 3 Responses

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