Projects Gateway Is The Place For Great Project Managers To Find Great Projects As a project manager, I found it frustrating to hear of interesting or game changes projects that were already underway and I didn't even knew they existed, let alone had the chance to throw my hat in the ring for the chance to deliver them. This got me thinking, how many truly great projects are out there that talented project managers just have no idea of? Great Project Manager Struggle To fine Great Projects This causes a few … [Read more...]
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November 2, 2013 7 Comments
Liquidplanner Review
LiquidPlanner cloud project management software is ideally suited to small to medium sized businesses with a schedule based focus to project management. If your projects are not overly complex but time critical, then LiquidPlanner provides and easy to use project management tool that might suit your need. LiquidPlanner is a simple but powerful alternative to Microsoft Project. It offers task management, project scheduling, and team collaboration in one central place. And unlike other tools out there, LiquidPlanner … [Read more...]
October 27, 2013 2 Comments
Free Trial Project Management Software Grapple
Over the past 18 months or so I, along with another project management colleague Aaron Hudson have been developing what we would want to see in project management software, which we have called Grapple. We have recently launched our Alpha prototype, which is free to use, for now. As readers of my blog, I thought I would give you the opportunity to be among the first to trial it. I would also like to introduce you to some of Grapple's key features and encourage you to give it a try and share your thoughts on what … [Read more...]
October 8, 2013 2 Comments
Avoiding Project Failure
If I knew this answer, I would be a wealthy wealthy man. With statistics flying around that assert that over 60% of projects fail, 56% of project budget at risk from poor communication, 10 Billion lost in Australia alone due to poor documentation it seems that a project can fail for countless reasons. Therein lies the problem, can we really avoid project failure? No, at least not in the sense that a project will be delivered exactly as it was expected to. I mean what does in life? What project goes exactly to plan? … [Read more...]
October 3, 2013 3 Comments
15 Secrets For Project Success
Finding the secret to a successful project is the holy grail for a project manager and indeed for most businesses. Well it is for me, and I certainly have my own thoughts on what the key factors of success are and, while I could cite something around “integrating the 9 function areas of PMBoK”, This doesn't really add much value. So what is the one thing that if we do right would return the biggest chance of project success? Well for me, the most important factor to project success is effective and transparent … [Read more...]
