I have reviewed ConceptDraw PROJECT and MINDMAP. The third and final piece in the ConceptDraw Office suite is ConceptDraw PRO. This, according to the vendor, “is a powerful diagramming and drawing tool that enables users to effectively visualize and communicate information and processes.” It’s a fancy drawing package, a bit like SmartDraw. It’s software that…
ConceptDraw Office is an entire software suite designed around the project management lifecycle. The first piece in the suite is ConceptDraw MINDMAP, which is “a business and personal productivity tool that collects ideas and organizes them into a visual map.” It’s a tool for on-screen brainstorming. I’ve never used mind mapping software before, being more…
(This post contains affiliate links. Read my full disclosure.)Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (Second Ed, 2013) ISBN 978-1780171715 Shortlisted for the 2014 CMI Management Book of the Year [amazon_textlink asin=’1780171714′ text=’Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’wwwelizabharr-21′ marketplace=’UK’ link_id=’e4e65f5c-2dea-11e8-bab1-f73377c9ff15′] uses a case-study…
SmartDraw is, according to the manufacturer, the world’s most popular business graphics software. It makes it easy to design “presentation-quality” graphics in “minutes, not hours.” I decided to put this to the test myself. When I put the SmartDraw 2008 CD in my PC, the installation window told me it would take 51 minutes to…
A Rebel’s Guide to Project Management provides practical solutions and easy-to-use templates to help you manage your projects more successfully. As well as that (and maybe more importantly) we are a community trying to get work done in the real world, not the ideal situations that the textbooks describe. If you juggle multiple projects, competing…
Sometimes it is not the work that makes work difficult, nor the people. Today the challenge that made my day more difficult than usual was something much more mundane: the arrival of a new telephone. It came with a three-fold leaflet explaining how to do a multitude of things, except set up my voicemail. A…