Recent Posts in ‘Best Practices’
Want to know the best way to implement Basecamp? Thinking about tracking employee time, but want to use the knowledge and expertise of business owners like you that have already gone through the process? Well, the BEST PRACTICES section is for you! We’ll help you determine how and where to implement a tool and coach you along the process.
Project Management – Ensuring Important Lessons are Learned
Lessons learned offer us a valuable opportunity to take previous experience and modify our approach such that we avoid some of the pitfalls that can be anticipated and handled before they have a negative effect on our progress. Unfortunately, often in the drive to see a project complete, the incorporation of lessons learned is often
37signals and Remote Working
37signals, makers of the popular online collaboration project management, application, Basecamp, are great proponents for remote working, with staff dotted all over the globe, from the UK to Idaho and Florida to Canada. As a forward-thinking company, 37signals realized early on that they would need to stretch their net far and wide to get the
Technology in Business – 7 Questions to Ask
A preface to Technology in Business 7 Questions to Ask: I had an old boss who was absolutely addicted to technology. You could call him a technophile. One of those guys that absolutely had to have the latest technology: bugs be damned, compatibility be damned, and time to setup and implement be damned. He wanted
Business Email Management Tips
We talk about a lot of tools here at Promana. We’re dedicated to helping you best run your business using Internet tools. It’s in this light that I thought I’d take a step back and discuss the one I REALLY use more than any other, and it’s so basic sometimes I forget that I’m using
Summer 2011 – Intuit QuickBase Hero is Crowned!
Earlier this year, Intuit invited its customers to submit nominations for the title of QuickBase Hero, as an individual who has shown the ability to create strong solutions for all different types of business problems, for example, using QuickBase to produce apps that streamline intricate processes, organize complex projects or improve productivity.
Quickbase – New Customer Feedback
Intuit has introduced a new customer feedback forum to help them capitalize on their customers’ views and develop new an innovative functionality for their QuickBase, project management, application. Intuit recognize that their customers are the essential driving force in developing their products and helping to keep their market share in what is a very competitive
International Institute of Learning – 30-day deal for July, 2011
The International Institute for Learning (IIL) has recently released a new 30-day deal for a 3-hour on-demand session on Project Management Metrics, KPIs and Dashboards. The session will be led by Dr. Harold Kerzner, who says: “The growth of customer value management programs and stakeholder involvement in projects has made us aware of the deficiencies
What is a Project
One way to define a project is as a set of tasks that are completed to deliver a final objective within a finite timescale. Businesses, both large and small, will normally put projects together to achieve objectives that will further their business in a positive way, whether that is to increase revenues, or maximise resources,
Managing Web Projects
Developmental project teams in today’s software organizations are often distributed across different locations, sometimes across different continents. To allow projects to operate in such a disparate way, project managers and their teams rely on online tools to manage their development projects. As a manager of a creative web development team you need a range of
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