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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Effective project management in your company: myth or reality?
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How to start and how not to go astray
Hold the rhythm and move to the goal!
Some of us still believe in business miracles and think that effectiveness of project management depends on certain luckiness or astrological circumstances. I do not believe in mythology and trust practical approach in project management. Thus I will try to characterize the inner world of any project or task taking into consideration all the necessary abilities of a manager as the head of the project. The reality of project management is based on the principle of well-customized workflow process within the execution work coupled with reliable team, clear veritable outcome, and financial solutions of the company and business opportunities of project stakeholders.
One of the most important things in the very beginning of the flow is strict realizing of its process. Each member of the team has to know for sure what to do and how to do it fast and effectively. But at the same time strict execution of manager’s tasks or sub-tasks should be comprehended and the responsibility of a certain task inside the project must not be a lot of a manager only. The so-called micromanagement won’t be appropriate in this situation, and the way out lies in organizing meetings, sharing ideas, requests, and thoughts. Such an operative solution is useful to analyze workflow phases and conduct a possible risk that is profitable in the beginning of a project.
Effective project management needs to be strictly regulated and its normal functioning has to pay respect to formalized workflow process framework. All the time remember about the veritable outcome and be an arbiter between stakeholders and team members. Your goal is not to run or pursue inner events leading to any result, but customize the flow and hold it in the effective condition for the project in general. Discussion forums, chats and blogs create the foundation of the communication and encourage collaborative relationships to desirable result. Visualizing of the team’s activity is also important element, which allows you to see what’s going on and what you need to achieve the goals you have planned at any segment of the workflow process.
Use workflow automate software for seamless customizing and visualizing
of the flow. Nowadays flexible collaborative software is worth our attention.
Comindware tracker and FREE task management would be an appropriate solution
for the company. Seamless using, effective work and customizing workflow process
within any project or task let you feel confident during the workflow.
Simplifying issue tracking, collaboration and the execution of sub-tasks,
creating separate work-spaces within the main project help to build flexible
system of project management. Comindware
applications have a clear interface and are easy to use: hit play, and your
project is started.
Author's bio: Ryan Hardy currently works in Project management insights, Sydney, Australia, project-management-insights.com. He likes to test various software and mobile applications and share his experience with the others. Years of productive analysis and tests showed him the right vector in using task management software, so he began writing for other blogs from around the world about it and not only.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
The difference between Basecamp and Comindware
Basecamp vs Comindware
Many of us like to work with processes, assigning tasks/sub-tasks to other team members and stakeholders of the project in general and putting in order and even bringing sense to such an arrangement. There are certain tools to combine management methods with automatic software, which should be suitable for agile and must enable a user to scope and track the workflow process at any phase. Also, these collaboration tools must give an access to the data of the task or the project, which allows a manager to take into consideration the wish of the client to see the data of the task or the project at any moment. However, the problem of choice is always opened and the guidance is needed in the amount of automate workflow software.
Basecamp characteristics
Being agile is about working with seamless automating software. Basecamp attracts users by its simplicity and extreme effectiveness. Blogging tools, calendars, to-do list and issue trackers, templates, message boards are combined in one body and are leading user in an intuitive way. Every similar tool's goal should be taking care of project/task sides enhancing collaboration between team members and stakeholders. It enables to edit tasks, sub-tasks in real time. Comments appear in the form of blog that is very convenient for conducting future development of the project. Each user has its working story, which is represented in Basecamp as a list. These lists are assigned to stories iterations and it's possible to move stories within the iterations. Such a Basecamp feature is beneficial, especially if you are faced with a situation, when you can't or have no opportunity to fulfill more work during one iteration, which you have scheduled. But at the same time Basecamp doesn't allow to set specific workflow environment and this circumstance reduces its originality and flexibility.
Comindware flexibility and Benefits
Comindware visual workflow builder has breakthrough flexibility in comparison with Basecamp. It allows putting all the work into workflow scheme right in browser window. Its graphical workflow editing enables user to visualize design and refine workflow process with drag and drop ease. Creating separate workspace within the main task/project is also possible in Comindware. It enhances collaboration between project contributors and each developer is able to assign personal tasks. Crafting and customizing processes in Comindware is seamless and taking into consideration company's business needs and scenarios. Moreover, it enables you to change and modify workflow process at any period of it and nothing will stop work. There is also an opportunity to get a written description of the workflow process steps based on workflow diagram. But there is a disadvantage of Comindware software – it's only on-premise now and there is no version for mobile platforms.
A Brief Comparison between Basecamp and Comindware
- Basecamp and Comindware are able to customize different workflow process with various tasks and goals.
- Basecamp and Comindware include a wide base of various communicative tools for sharing file, ideas, and comments between team members.
- Basecamp and Comindware let users to change and modify the workflow process at its different phases without stopping and interrupting.
- Basecamp and Comindware produce an opportunity to customize workflow process taking into consideration features of tasks. But Basecamp doesn't allow setting specific workflow a most management tools.
- Comindware is flexible and enables to craft separate work-spaces within the main project/task.
Author's bio: Ryan Hardy currently works in Project management insights, Sydney, Australia,
project-management-insights.com. He likes to test various software and mobile applications and share his experience with the others. Years of productive analysis and tests showed him the right vector in using task management software, so he began writing for other blogs from around the world about it and not only.
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Redmine and Comindware. Detailed comparison
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It's not so easy to criticize and find limitations in the work of the others. Any product, software or tool is the result of titanic work of many talented people, whose dream is to make our world better. In the world of automate workflow software there are a lot of tools, which are worth to be examined. So firstly let's try to combine agile with automatic tools to track a task or a project. Huge volumes of data, content and translations should be kept in one place and seamlessly managed as well. Such software must enable user to track and maintain development projects/tasks, and remote access to the data of the task.
Redmine features
Redmine is an effective issue tracking tool with the extensible framework and easy customizable features. It enables to integrate with different management tools and is easy to define issues, to create various filters. Redmine's framework consists of track stories, called Specs. Each task/sub-task is assigned to a specific version, so that workflow process phases are visible. The flexibility of Redmine allows organizing fields for every item of the task/project.
Though this process goes yet not without some limits: the fields for items are not available for creating new fields for new items and such a nuisance slows down the reporting process. According to interface Redmine has rather specific one, so it should be finished or polished before start working with the tool. Time and budget can be managed in the wiki, which is helpful for collaboration along with other ways of communication between team members.
Comindware features
Comindware workflow builder is another representative of the automate workflow flexible software family. Its flexibility has no limits. It enables to drag and drop all the constituents of future task/project into the workflow algorithm right in the browser window. Each developer can assign personal tasks to complete the work. Every task has discussion section, where team members can share ideas, requests, and comments. The files are attached to the task/sub-task either.
Comindware differs significantly from Redmine in particular giving an opportunity to change and modify the workflow process any time. The flow goes further without stopping. The main disadvantage of Comindware tracker is that it's on-premise for now and there is no mobile platform version.
A Brief Comparison between Redmine and Comindware
- Redmine and Comindware automate workflow software are flexible and enable wide opportunities for the users in customizing agile workflow processes.
- Rather powerful basis of communicative tools integrated to these both Redmine and Comindware.
- Comindware gives an opportunity to change and modify the workflow process at any its phase.
- Free open source solution of both tools.
Author's bio: Ryan Hardy currently works in Project management insights, Sydney, Australia, project-management-insights.com. He likes to test various software and mobile applications and share his experience with the others. Years of productive analysis and tests showed him the right vector in using task management software, so he began writing for other blogs from around the world about it and not only.
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Inside view on flexible task management
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Modern life is fast and full of rush and doesn't value those who have no abilities to obey its rhythm. Life is a complicated thing and sometimes there is no time even to think about it, its processes, future goals and plans. Researchers have found out that nine months of our life (during which time a woman can bear a child), a person spends in washing and ironing, and three months in a traffic jam. Over a lifetime, people spend two weeks praying, six months on the road, five years they eat and drink, twenty four years and nine months – sleeping, and at last seven years working. Seven years of tasks, projects, plans, contracts and chaos in the office life. We are facing with different aspects of collaborative spirit and try to transform it into a well-organized and customized workflow process. For one of us it's easy to collect a team and manage it in a proper way to achieve results we planned, for the rest – such a task is hard and even impossible.
Visual experience
Customize and create!

Visual experience
Effective management is possible through a combination of the unity of economic, administrative and socio-psychological groups of practices. As well as the application of all these methods is successful when the organizational skills were set, ensuring the establishment of a clear work schedule for every member of a team, to establish his responsibility. Normal functioning of task management insists that all types of workflow methods are strictly regulated and brought into the customized framework. Sorry for the pseudoscientific delirium, but it is so.
Looking back in the past I have faced such a situation when I was jumping from one task manager to another hearing the words aloud: 'New task manager' or 'The best IT desk help tracker'! May be it was normal for somebody, but for me these slogans were pathetic and sounded annoying.
While searching 'task management El Dorado' I discovered a solution of customizing workflow process by Comindware. At your service is a web-based collaborative software for customizing workflow processes including tasks, sub-tasks and projects. Thanks to it tasks can be automatically generated and assigned as tracked positions are created or progress from one step to another.
Free task management
Comindware Task Management is a team-oriented task and project management software literally without any limits. The on-premise version is FREE and supports an unlimited number of tasks, users, projects, and departments. So you can try it and make a decision about this product on your own. Anyway with Comindware you have endless possibilities in customizing workflow process. Each project, team or department can have its own separate workspace and security settings yet still share resources on a single system. Unlike other similar software, Comindware tools are based on ultra-flexible ElasticData technology, which supports an unlimited task hierarchy. Thanks to it you can create and track as many tasks and projects as you want.
Customize and create!
If you are able to run a team or department via phone calls, video chats and live conversations, so customizing the workflow process using Comindware Task Management will be pleasant and easy for you. Organize work efforts into tasks and projects, set priorities and deadlines, collaborate, share files, and set-up automated notifications and alerts, update and track the status of tasks, view organized task lists, dashboards and reports – simply create your workflow process and make it perfect and flexible according to your needs!
Author's bio:
Ryan Hardy currently works in Project management insights, Sydney, Australia, project-management-insights.com. He likes to test various software and mobile applications and share his experience with the others. Years of productive analysis and tests showed him the right vector in using task management software, so he began writing for other blogs from around the world about it and not only.
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