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Project Management Tips Part II: Collaboration Tools

Posted by Lorenzo Gomez III on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, In : Project Management 

Since Jeff Kelly was kind enough to break the ice on PM issues I feel compelled to show you some cool tools out there for Project Management. As with most of the tools we feature here on eSamaritan the majority of them you can use for free or for very little money. For those that have never used a collaboration tool it's very simple. You have a project that you are doing and using excel to list all of your tasks is not enough anymore. It's not even enough to use Microsoft Project because you ...

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Project Management Tips!

Posted by Jeff Kelly on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, In : Project Management 

In the excitement of kicking off a project, people can get lost in all the details that come along.

1.     What features can I add?
2.     How soon can we get this done?
3.     How am I going to keep track of all this stuff?
 
Sadly, they lose sight of the two key questions they should be asking.
1.     What is the goal of the project?
2.     How am I going to measure success of the project?
 
When you’re discussing the scope of a project, you want to make sure that the activities that you do, the f...

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