8 Ways To Avoid PM Software Buyer’s Remorse

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When shopping for project management software, start with some basic parameters — your budget, the number and type of users, etc. — and then focus on making sure your next tool provides these eight essential features.

Flying cars. Robots. Hoverboards. Teleportation. I doubt I’m the only one who grew up thinking that by the time the 2000s finally got here, technology would be so advanced that the world would be run by robots, humans would live in colonies on the moon, and everyone would be “beaming” themselves to their desired destination. After all the futuristic books I’ve had to read, the movies I’ve watched, and the rapid advancements in technology that took place in the past 20 years, it all seemed plausible.

And yet, here we are in the year 2013, and I’m looking around wondering why I don’t have an android butler named Watson that cleans my house for me, keeps track of my calendar, cooks me dinner, and exists solely to make my life easier. Perhaps we’re not as advanced as we think.

But what if…what if robots that make our lives easier really do already exist — just not in the form we thought they would be? Think about it. I may not have a robot that looks and talks like a human hanging around my house, but I do have a smart phone that talks back to me, keeps track of my calendar, tells me the scores of …

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