Software

Reviews of project management software from a real user, who literally wrote the book on Collaboration Tools for Project Managers. I’ve tried out dozens of tools to save you time and show you the best features.

Let’s play make-believe: addressing project management software adoption with user personas

“The role of director of user experience is pretty new,” says Steve Ballard, who has taken on this position at project management software company Workfront. “In consumer software it’s not so new. The product has to sell itself so the focus is on products that are useful.” The difference with software you use at work…

Screenshot of Digite v6.0 showing list of labour types

Review: Digite v6.0

Digité is head quartered in Mountain View, California and was started as a collaboration between two companies. The objective was to bring out a tool that would help people collaborate and fulfill the needs of a trend they had already spotted back in 2003, that of distributed teams. “It’s not a PPM tool trying to…

An open laptop computer sitting on top of a table

Review: Severa 3

Why is registering for anything so complicated? The ‘State’ field is not marked as compulsory when signing up for an account with Severa. Except my registration would not be accepted without one. So it is compulsory, then. Having said that there is no validation, as I just typed ‘State’ and I was in. The sign…

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Snap decisions

One Saturday in 2008 I made Monica Enand, CEO and Founder of Zapproved, get up extra early to demo her new software for me. It was 8am on the Pacific Coast, and she didn’t sound like she was sitting in her pyjamas in front of her PC. Given that it was the weekend before launch,…

Interview with Clarizen CEO and co-founder, Avinoam Nowogrodski

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…