There is no question that the late Steve Jobs was a genius and was admired by many, I included. Most things he did throughout his career turn out to be…
The typical human response to securing an open venue is to increase the number of guards, install more barriers, and conduct more checks. However, this strategy fails to recognize that…
When stakeholders ask "how long until SEO works?", they usually want one clear date. The honest answer is that timing depends on your starting point, your competition, and how much…
Patience, as a consumer virtue, is disappearing fast. When a page takes more than two seconds to load, users leave. When a checkout process has too many steps, carts get…
Things change quickly in today's economy. New technologies appear, industries evolve, and companies adjust their strategies to stay competitive. Jobs that did not exist a decade ago have become common,…
Think about the last time a digital product genuinely impressed you. Chances are, it wasn't because it added something new. It was because something you expected to deal with simply…
For the past 2 years, our team has worked hard to bring the best online project management and collaboration application to our users. We are a small engineering team working…
Agile projects do have a WBS. However, differences in perspective and terminology can cause confusion between project managers familiar with a WBS for a System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) based…
Given all the attention on telecommuting and virtual operations, you would think there was now a huge roster of companies running entirely “in the cloud, virtual team,” if you will.…
I am happy to let you know we just released the latest version of binfire.com. In this release all pages and files are 256 bit encrypted (same encryption as most…
A number of years ago, I worked on an executive team in which everyone was located in the same building but people seemed frustratingly far apart. Yet at my first…
Project requirements derive from concrete business needs or business-use cases and constitute the foundation for the project management. Without requirements, projects cannot exist. Incomplete and unclear requirements may result in…
A while back Scott Edinger wrote an article in HBR about remote workers being more motivated than office workers. He asked; Who is more engaged and more committed to their…
As you know managing distributed teams used to be really hard work. The differences in time, language and culture create many obstacles to effective management of projects. In my view, the biggest…
Communication and collaboration are essential parts of collaborative project management. In fact you can't find any project management application that does not brag about their team collaboration tools in the market today. Team collaboration tools…
I got the news today that Dabbleboard is shutting down. This is sad news! Even though our whiteboard competes with Dabbleboard, it is always sad to see a small software…