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Our project management section features news and information on everything project management – from how to articles, through reviews of software. If you are a small business owner you must frequent our Project Management section as it contains vital information on how to better run your business.

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What Type of Project Manager are You?

 In today’s technological environments, where project managers are often just ‘given’ the job or inherit a project to manage, and they have to bring a team together to reach a successful outcome.  There are a number of online solutions that will help a project manager to organize and manage their products and many of these

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5pm – Two Key Features to Help You Manage Your Projects

5pm is one of the leading online on-demand project management applications that helps project managers keep a track of their teams and activities.  So what are the key features offered by 5pm to help successfully manage projects?

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Wrike Introduces New Express Creation of Tasks

Wrike is one of the leading project management tools on the internet today, with many thousands of users spread worldwide. In today’s fast moving technological working environments, project teams need to work as efficiently as they can and any time saving features within their online project management application can make a significant difference to the. 

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Wrike Introduces New Task Groups to Help Keep Important Items in the Frame

When we are working on large and often complex projects, it can be difficult for a project manager to attention on those activities that are the most important, without them getting lost in the bigger picture.

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Planning Effectively for Projects with 5PM

The planning stage for a project is principally concerned with who in the team needs to do what activities to see the project reach its conclusion successfully and the project manager’s role in this is to provide a framework from which s/he can structure the necessary tasks and communicate that out to those involved.  To

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Using Online Project Management Applications to Support Effective Project Communications

Communication is probably the single most important activity contributing to successful project management and a good project manager can realistically expect to spend around 85% to 90% of the time engaged in communications of one sort or another.  Of course, effective planning, setting milestones, managing risks and issues all have to be carried out and

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Lessons Learned Sessions – Making them Effective

 A lessons learned process, implemented correctly, can deliver huge benefits to organizations, saving time and money.  To be effective, the lessons learned process needs to be fully integrated into the daily working practices of projects and businesses, rather than simply bolted onto the front or the end of a project, as is often the case. 

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WORKetc What’s in the Next Major Release?

  The next major release for WORKetc, the popular collaborative project management tool, will cover a number of areas: Improvements to the existing custom fields feature Facility to save views Updated Sales and CRM to include tables that can be customized Account roles and permissions to give greater control over who can access and update project related

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Wrike Introduces Workload Management

Once a project is in full swing, a big part of the project manager’s role is to manage those additional tasks, activities and problems that arise, most often unexpectedly, to ensure that the project remains on schedule for a successful outcome.  When problems occur in projects they need resolution and this typically involves generating activities