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.
General information Name: MyProjects Lite Vendor: Avellana Software Hosting options: Web hosted Cost: Lite version for iPhone/iPad is free. The free version only allows you to create 10 tasks, which is very limiting. The full version of this app is £2.49. I couldn’t find an option to upgrade from free to paid, which means you…
In this video, Richard Gordon from Microsoft discusses the role of SharePoint, bemoans the fact companies don’t upgrade to the latest versions or use the full functionality and muses on the future of project management software. This video was filmed at the Project Management in the Collaborative Age round table discussion hosted by Microsoft and…
Software September continues with a look at iPad applications for business. Last year, I got an iPad. I didn’t choose to buy one: it was the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards prize. I wasn’t expecting to win it, and I’d only ever seen one before. The people with me that evening were ecstatic at the…
General information Name: TeamworkPM Vendor: Digital Crew Application Developers Hosting options: Web hosted version only Cost and plans: 30 day free trial. From $12pm for a personal plan to $149pm for enterprise plan. Languages: 24 languages including Norwegian and Indonesian. Currency: Has a long list of standard currencies. Basic features: building projects Creating a new…
One of the questions I’m asked frequently is: “How do I use social media tools for communication?” I addressed this during my presentation at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting in Dublin (in 2011), and one of the organisations I drew on to illustrate how other people are doing it was the Chartered Management Institute. The…
General information Name: RationalPlan Vendor: Stand by Soft Ltd Hosting options: Locally hosted. There is a free trial but it requires you to download an application. Cost and plans: Single project (this is not just for one project at a time; it relates to having unrelated projects without dependencies). Multi-project for interrelated projects i.e. a…
General information Name: AceProject Vendor: Websystems, Inc. Hosting options: There is a web hosted version and a version you can host yourself Cost and plans: Free for basic accounts with 5 users and 5 projects. This only gives you 50 tasks which doesn’t seem very much at all to me. There is a sliding scale…
“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…
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…
5pm is web-based, on demand project management software. It looks lovely and the user interface is intuitive. It’s very easy to get going and the help feature is good if you get stuck (they have videos and a blog which covers new features and useful info like downtime). The main downside I could see is…
There’s a relatively new software tool on the market – a tool which had it’s funding pulled after failing to make it big in 6 years, and was rescued from the rubbish bin by someone with practically no project management knowledge. Sounds like a disaster? Actually, Bob Light sounds like just the kind of person…
Last month I looked at the new features in Genius Project. I wanted to find out more about how the software works with Microsoft Project, so I spoke to Christophe Borlat, General Manager of Genius Inside. There are lots of project management tools out there today doing interesting things, what makes Genius Project different? Genius…