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In a couple of sentences, please tell us what you value on gantthead. What makes us different or better than other project management resources?
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Gary Rosenfeld
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Many sites vie for the IT project manager's attention. IT Project Managers look for insightful and worthwhile content. Content that can add value to their job and assist in their professional development. This could be a much needed template or a forum in which to safely pose a newbie question. gantthead fulfills this need better than any other site out there.
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Gareth Nicol
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Much more realistic discussions and information that I find useful to either stimulate some creativity within my Program or to address real issues positively.
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Jean Chrest
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I can usually find something in the list of articles that will give me insight into helping me with struggles I find in my work life. Gantthead was also a valuable tool for information and support when I was between jobs.
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Rick McClure
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the downloadable templates are a great help.
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Kim Doll
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gantthead provides a very well put together product with relavent articles to Project Management.
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Karen Cash
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I like the periodic emails which contain various articles and white papers on one single topic. This allows a PM to focus only on that topic for improvement and study. The hands-on experience in the articles is very helpful and can assist PM's on a fast-track through the learning curve. I look forward to more articles and resources from gantthead.
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Yvette Moody
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I appreciate the variety in topics available. I can always find tools, articles or other information that is useful in whatever aspect of a project I need assistance with.
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Rich Eaton
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gantthead is focused on IT project management issues (versus generic PM), practical solutions (versus theory) and great active (versus dead) forums focused on relevant issues. All content is professional and very little of it is designed to steer me to specific vendor products or services.
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Irwin Franco
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- I have been using this site since three years. It is my main source for articles, best practices and advanced subjects about PM - When I need a template, This is the first place I use. - The quality, importance and development of each article become this site a critical source of information and points of view of PM Leaders.
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Steve Dale
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Gantthead provides well researched and structured advice to project managers in real-time in a "just in time" delivery format. What I mean by this is, A project manager can say, "I am having challenges communicating with some stakeholders, what are some techniques I can use to overcome these challenges?" Gantthead answers questions like that with practical advice and tools.
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Rona Sharland
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I value the sound & practical knowledge which I can trust and access at a click or two. This provides me with a valuable resource to work with cutting out any "noise" that I sometimes find at other websites.
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Diane Krieger
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The true spirit of sharing and collaboration, downloadable templates and solid information found on the site.
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Katie Mankins
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I really value the departments that have been set up on gantthead. I find that they align very well with my areas of interest. The articles that I find on gantthead are thought provoking, well written, and worth reading as well as sharing.
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Susan Telford
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Excelent articles on leadership
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Mike McKay
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Key relevant articles that can be applied directly to current processes and techniques used within the project/program environment
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Jolie Roy
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The wealth of experience and information gantthead provides gives me the chance to check in whenever I have a question or issue I need to address. Having a place to gather with other PMs going through some of the same things makes it not so lonely out here!
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Michelle Reavis
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The templates and project plans really help my team define project requirements.
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Trudy Salkin
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I find your articles very informative and applicable for all industries. The information is clear, concise, and well defined. I always look forward to ganthead newsletter emails due to the relevant topics. No other online source provides the excellent material as well as ganthead.com. Many thanks for the outsanding articles and support you continue to provide!
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Grant Gibson
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Relevant PM information and insights; Frequently issued Well written Fun to read
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John Meyer
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I like the ability to scan through several topics and click to find more information and from that, more references. Ganthead provides an interface that is attractive and easy to select items of interest. Some technical newsletters are colorless, and just show typed information and a link. It is hard to find topics that you want without reading through al the abbreviated introductions.
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Beverly Hurley Hill
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I only access a few PM resources and I find myself printing or forwarding your articles more than others. We are all PMP's and our moderate sized organization has two PMO's - one for new product which is marketing and revenue generating in focus - the other for operational projects which is expense and resource streamlining focused. You tend to speak to both sides and sometimes even contrast the two. Thank you.
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Debbie Lowery
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I'm really getting a lot of benefit from reading other's experiences in the articles. As a new project manager, I'm constantly searching to see how others handle various issues and I can usually find an answer that makes perfect sense to me.
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Jeff Faulconer
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I like the content you provide. The community aspect is also a nice feature. It's one thing to read about PM the way PMI explains it, but it's a whole different story trying to work through it.
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pat tagnani
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I can quickly scan and see if there is anything I am interested in. Templates
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Roxanne McClain
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It's a great place for research - lots of information in a central location. gantthead also seems innovative and in touch with the times, providing good information on how to deal with evolving technologies and tools.
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Stephen Booth
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Readable relevant information. Not just heavy turgid theory.
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Laura Polak
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The ability to network with my peers, and the great articles on subjects that are hot in the industry today. Gantthead is a wealth of information for the project manager.
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Posted on: September 27, 2007 06:08 PM
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| Situation: You need a free substitute for PowerPoint.
Google just launched Presently, adding to its basic set of desktop tools that offer the core functionality of the MS Office Suite. On the one hand, you get what you pay for and all of these apps are decidedly low end compared to their Microsoft brethren. As with any Google Docs apps, you might be concerned about security as your files are stored on the google site, versus on your computer. That's somewhat helpful if you need to collaborate with others (see video).
However, if you're collaborating with others who use MS Office regularly (most of the busines world), you'll run into the hidden cost of these apps - compatibilty. Going from MS to Google apps (like pulling a ppt into Presently) is pretty easy if you don't mind dumbing down your document. However, going the other way -- not so easy.
However, free is good and the argument for these tools is pretty strong for many - they give you what you really need (since most people don't need much) for free and make collaborating easy for small groups.
Things you can do:
- Upload Powerpoint presentations into Presently (disabling some features)
- Cut and paste text from MS Office docs into Presently.
- Embed video and any of the other typical media types into a Presently slide.
- Use their predefined themes (not terrific, but ok)
- Decide to share the presentation (or not).
- Maintain versions of the presentation (happens automatically)
Things you can't do:
- Cut an paste graphics out of your Powerpoint files into Presently. You have to save them off and insert them.
- Create your own themes
- Use cool transitions
- Save the file to your desktop
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Posted on: September 20, 2007 04:41 PM
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Situation: You need a really simple easy way to track issues on your project.
 Project Management is many things to many people. I was trolling the gantthead discussions and found this posting that mentioned JIRA and Greenhopper, calling both JIRA and the combination of the two, Project Management tools.
 JIRA is really a pretty cool Issue Tracking tool, further enhanced by a Greenhopper drop and drag interface. I know from the gantthead experience that people are always looking for a simple, web-based, issue tracking tool like this and the drop and drag nature of this one, makes it very easy to work with. Take a look.
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Posted on: September 06, 2007 12:44 PM
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Situation: You need more near-term visibility.
 It's always easier to estimate how long things will take when you're right about to do them. That's when you suddenly uncover all of those little steps between here and there that ou forgot about completely when building your 6 month project plan.
Inch Pebbles are used to estimate all of those little granular activities that together make up what you'll really have to do to get the job done. In Estimating with Inch Pebbles Johanna Rothman discusses how you can use this extreme programming technique weekly or monthly to get a better handle on where things stand. The article is a quick read - well worth your time. |
Posted on: September 06, 2007 11:46 AM
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Situation: You're in Need of a Way Around Your Email System's Attachment Issues.
 A while back, I reviewed SendThisFile - which allows you to effectively send large attachments to people via email. Now, there is a tool called Driveway, that is a bit more user friendly.
At some point, we've all tried to send something larger than our email systems allow - a picture, a presentation, whatever. Both Driveway and SendThis File allow you to post those files to a secure remote server and include links to them in the email you send. So you're not actually sending the files in email, but you're getting them there, which is the important part.
SendThis File is very straightforward, offering you just go their site, upload your file and grab the link. Driveway does the same, but also offers plug-ins that allow you to do it from your desktop and collaborate on documents directly on the remote server. Another consideration is that SendThisFile has no size limit, while Driveway limits the size to 500MB. As the Driveway folks say, "Size Really Does Matter". |
Posted on: August 25, 2007 09:10 AM
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