Flexible Time Tracking for Consultants, R&D, and IT
| Situation: Your Firm Needs To Track Time at a Very Granular Level. |
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Time Killers
Categories: Time Killers
Situation: You Need a Good Excuse... Postioning can be very important in project management, but sometimes we go a little overboard. Dave Prior, Vice Chair of the PMI IT&T SIG sent this link over to me a minute ago -- pretty funny. |
Record Every Thought...
Situation: You want to improve your "not so photographic" memory... People used to "suction-cup" note-pads to the inside of their windshields, so that if they wanted to jot down a note ... (well you get it)Jot, a new free service on the web accomplishes that for you in a really effective, easy to use way. Yes, you're using your cell phone, but at least youre not trying to write while driving. The idea is that you dial an 800 #, talk into the phone and hang up. Everything you say is transcribed and sent to your email account. Messages can also be sent via text message to your phone OR to a distribution list. So if you are running late for a meeting, you could pick up the phone, dial Jot's #, and say "team - I'm going to be 20 minutes late" . A text message then goes to each of your team members letting them know what's going on. How efficient is that! I've really got to say I'm excited about this one. I'm constantly looking for easy ways to remember the thousands of things I need to catch up on every day. I'm sure many of you feel the same. |
Pain Free Presentation Training
Situation: Your public speaking skills could use a little polish... Who knew training in public speaking could be anything but a nightmare? I was reading the WSJ last Tuesday and ran across this article, "Improv Troupe Teaches Managers How To Give Better Presentations". It's not just any Improv Troupe either --- these are the folks at Second City! It looks like it's actually affordable and held several times a year. |
Integrating MSP Desktop, SharePoint, and/or Groove...
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Situation: You need to bridge MSProject Desktop, SharePoint and/or Groove 1. Already have MS Project 2003 licenses for everyone on projects. TeamDirection does not require licenses for everyone on projects. What you saw in the demo is the ability to publish and synchronize tasks from MS Project (2003 and 2007 supported, btw) to a SharePoint Task List (again 2003 and 2007 supported). Team members can then participate in the project via their browser. Since SharePoint services ship with Windows Server 2003, this can be very cost effective. 2. Already have SharePoint or Groove licenses for everyone Yes. Again we work with the SharePoint services shipping with Windows Server 2003, or we work with hosted providers running portal and SharePoint 2007. And, if you're an enterprise MS Office customer, Groove will be available. 3. Want to sitck with Tools they already have in house and are used to. Though its difficult to describe, rather than changing the process to fit our software, our software adapts to a company's process. For example, we also have a product that integrates with Mindjet MindManager and publishes topics to SharePoint and Groove. We also have another rich desktop that people can deploy so any user can see a rich gantt view of projects. And our features try to anticipate user needs to communicating in order to complete projects-- integration with Windows messenger for example. 4. Do not want to take on a big implementation effort. MS Project *Server* 2007 is built on the SharePoint |
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