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Which Project Management Application Would a Small Company Go For?

Equinox-Apps is a mobile software company based in the UK but with a worldwide market that specializes in the development of equestrian mobile apps. Currently developing for the iOS and Blackberry platforms, with plans to expand into Android, too, this company has quickly mastered its approach to collaborative project management.

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5pm is now Available in Japanese

In today’s widely distributed business working environments, where teams can often work not just across time boundaries but also languages, too, 5pm has realized the impact that removing language barriers can have on its online, collaborative project management application.  The most recent addition to its suite of language translations is Japanese and it comes through

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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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5pm Re-Releases its iPhone App to iTunes

As a result of recent changes in Apple’s policy around mobile apps, 5pm has re-released its app in iTunes. Mobile versions of online project management applications are becoming a must as an integral part of the toolkit they offer, helping project teams keep in touch and keep abreast of latest progress at any time of

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The Older Browser – Worth the SaaS Development Effort?

Changes in browser versions has always, in the past, posed its own problems for those developing web sites and applications, trying to ensure that all bases are covered and that no existing users are left short-changed just because they’ve chosen to upgrade or, indeed, not to upgrade.  For companies like 37signals that produce web based

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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

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Improvements in Campfire to see out 2011

Campfire is introducing its end of year improvements for its users and these improvements include: Per-room permissions:  Before this feature came along, permissions had to changed on an individual basis for each person within a room in Campfire, which was time consuming and monotonous.  The new improved feature means that when a room is created,

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Apollo Now Supports Writeboards

A writeboard is, essentially, a web-based text document that is shareable across different users.  One of the earlier writeboard features was introduced by 37signals in its flagship product, Basecamp.  Many other collaborative project management applications have since followed suit in providing this type of feature for their users and Apollo has done similar.