The mid-market project management software arena is becoming much more competitive. Clarizen (click here to see my review of their software) is another player. I spoke to Avinoam Nowogrodski in Israel to find out what sets Clarizen apart from the competition. You’re the CEO and co-founder of Clarizen. Tell me about the company. Clarizen is…
Clarizen is an online, ‘software as a service’ project management tool that has integration with other desktop applications. It’s aimed at small and medium sized companies that can’t justify the investment in all-singing-all-dancing project management software, which costs a lot to implement in hardware, licences and training. Clarizen has no hosting costs. Licences start at…
Earlier this month I reviewed Easy Projects .NET, a project management package from Logic Software. There’s a bit of a trend with more and more players coming into the project management tools arena, and more companies are leaning towards web-based tools that help with collaborative working. Easy Projects .NET (now Birdview PSA) is used in…
Earlier this week I reviewed Viewpath Express, a free web-based project management tool. Viewpath is not positioning itself as a rival to Microsoft Project, so I thought it would be interesting to find out what they are aiming for with their project management software. I interviewed Dean Carlson, CEO, to ask him. Microsoft Project tends…
Viewpath 2.0 is web-based project management tool. Earlier this month the company announced at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco that it was making Viewpath Express free and available to anyone. They can do this because there are adverts all down the right hand side of the page. They also have another version, Viewpath…
This month I’ve been writing various project management software reviews and Easy Projects .NET (now Birdview PSA) has been on my list to investigate for quite some time. Amanda set me up with a demo account and I had a test drive. The first time you log in the tutorial page appears with seven easy…
In June, Forrester released a report (*updated 3 Aug 2015: no longer available online) that concluded that IT projects are people projects: people management skills are essential for the successful design and implementation of the project. Experienced project managers will know that this is common sense. It’s rarely the technology that lets projects down: in…
I saw a demo of the latest version of LiquidPlanner, the project management scheduling and collaboration tool, on Tuesday. It’s now been released – and it’s still in the Beta testing phase so it’s still free! Bruce Henry took me, a life-long user of MS Project, through the main features. I have dabbled with ConceptDraw…
This is the last in a 3-part series about managing cross-cultural and international teams. Missed the earlier posts? Read the first bit here, and the second bit here.The biggest issues for international projects are cultural understanding and communication. The former isn’t something that can be neatly tackled by a software package. It relies on the…
Setting up a project is easy: anyone familiar with MS Project will be able to navigate around without problems. The main part of the screen shows the task list and Gantt chart. All the standard functionality is there: managing resources, costs, dependencies. I particularly like the semi-transparent way the duration bars on the gantt chart…