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I've had my Linkedin profile for while now, but was not very active on the network until a few months ago. That's when I discovered Linkedin Groups. I signed on for project-management related groups. The discussions on Linkedin groups are insightful, interesting, and go deeper than those on Twitter...
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The world of project management is a crowded place. There are multiple profesional accreditation options, multiple project management methodologies and countless books, blogs and tools to manage projects. This is a good thing. I have never talked to two organizations who managed projects the same way...
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We're shopping around for a CMS for AceProject's web site. In our search, we found KenticoCMS , a nice product that seemed to fit our needs. So we installed the demo to play around with it. That's not the interesting part. The interesting part happened a couple of day later. I received an...
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I do a lot of presentations in my job: product demos and user training fall under my responsibility. I love it, because it's never the same. Each client is different, so I adapt my show based on their needs. I almost never use PowerPoint. Why never use PowerPoint? PowerPoint is too easy to abuse...
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This week, I had finally had enough. There was no apology that could fix the relationship, no reparations possible. It broke my heart but I had to do it. I broke up with a product I love. Xobni is a great Outlook Add-on that indexes all your email, provides neat metrics (like response times) and had...
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At Websystems, we have IP phones that forward our voicemail messages to our email addresses. This is very convenient, since we can forward the message to the appropriate person easily. The voicemail notification also contains any special information entered by the caller, such as confidential or urgent...
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Sometimes we are so bent on closing a sale that we are tempted to ignore the needs to the clients and push our product. We are focused on the short term (closing the sale), instead of the much more profitable long-term (having a happy client). AceProject is a great project management system. Unfortunately...
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I was reading this excellent post about being taken seriously and it made me realize how important it was to product management. The first element of David's post is about telling people what you have done instead of what you will do. It seems like common sense at first, but how many times have you...
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Do you remember the last time you shopped for a car? As you get in the dealership, you start looking at cars in the showroom. A salesperson helps you out, answering your questions and guiding your choice for a new car. Once you've decided what you wanted, the pressure is applied. As you are sitting...