Project Management

The old fashioned way to manage projects was for a project manager to keep the schedule. The project manager would hold review meetings to update it (thereby wasting everyone’s time), or visit cubicles/make phone calls for updates.

The more modern way to manage projects is the Agile method. This typically involves a project manager holding short, daily, “scrum” (comes from a rugby term) meetings.

With a cloud tool to manage projects, everyone on the projects can update […]

Are you staying on top of your project management?
A project management tool helps. A good tool will give you a visual view of dependencies, progress, and slips in schedule. You also want your project management tool to give you:

An overview of the project
Completed tasks
Tasks in progress
Assignments
A calendar.

(Read my blog post here about project management: How to Stay on Top of Your Project Management.)

I often recommend Insightly […]

Projects have defined start dates and end dates (even if that end date keeps moving!) and it’s important to stay on top of milestones and manage schedule risk. If you’re managing projects with milestones and resources, then you should be using project management software such as Microsoft Project, Insightly, or Asana. (Task management software, on the other hand, is less complex.)
Here’s how to start the project management process:

Determine your start date for the project […]