project management

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How To Manage A Group Project In Google Wave

4:00AM Gina Trapani | Google Wave has the potential to be used for just about anything, but Wave’s best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here’s how to manage a group project in Wave. More »
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Tom’s Planner Is An Impressive, Intuitive Project Scheduling Tool

6:30AM Adam Pash | If your work life’s all laid out in Gantt charts but you’re not happy with the tool you’re using, check out Tom’s Planner, a web-based project scheduling and collaboration tool. More »
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The Big Picture Provides Intuitive Project Management

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | The Big Picture is a project-management tool which fuses a calendar, task lists and project creation tools with a mind-map style interface. The result is an intuitive click-and-drag interface that makes project management simple. More »
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Zoho Projects Keeps Teams Focused And In Touch

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Online office suite Zoho enters the project management realm with a few attention-getting features. One is import support for Microsoft Project files, and another is a consolidate, real-time view of what’s going on with, and between, project members. More »
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WizeHive Offers Simple Project Management

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re looking for a feature-rich project management tool, WizeHive offers a broad range of tools to make planning, managing, and sharing your projects easier. More »
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Onyaka Is A Free Web-Based Staff Planning App

2:30AM Adam Pash | Got an important project that requires a staff of several people and want a simple tool for managing and planning out your schedule and staff? Webapp Onyaka can help. More »
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Know When Your Work Project Is In Danger

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | It’s easy to guess what went wrong with a work project after it goes South. Web Worker Daily wants you to get a little foresight, though, and know what to fix, or when to bail. More »
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Gantter Does Project Management In Your Browser

6:00AM The How-To Geek | Web-based project management tool Gantter has an interface that looks remarkably similar to Microsoft Project—and even lets you import and export your Project files. More »
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ClockingIT Is A Free Hosted Project Management Tool

11:30PM Lifehacker US Edition | The ClockingIT webapp is a hosted, open-source solution to managing team-oriented projects. The robust features in ClockingIT might be overkill for a single worker, but when applied to a team yield a gold mine of management tools and report generation. Projects contain subsets of tasks, which you can filter by various criteria, like “Open Tasks” and “My In Progress Tasks.” GANTT charts visualize the project schedule and update with date changes. ClockingIT includes unlimited file storage per project. While I was able to set up an account and try out the various functions, I didn’t have a software development team on hand to really put ClockingIT through the paces. If you have experience with ClockingIT, sound off in the comments below! For other free alternatives check out Project2Manage and activeCollab. Thanks David! ClockingIT More »
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Use A Mind Map To Organise Your Week

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | For freelancers or anyone juggling multiple tasks—not necessarily multiple projects—Raj Dash at the FreelanceSwitch blog recommends using mind-mapping software to create a weekly organizational planner that can be crafted to fit your exact needs. In his case, that’s a Sunday-to-Saturday diagram, with each day stacked with coloured tasks (green for billable work, pink for research for another task, etc.) and each day exported to a spreadsheet to total up the day’s billables and work output. Raj’s example is do-able with most mind-mapping (or design) programs, including the multi-platform, no-cost FreeMind, and makes what you’re doing and what you’ve done a visual affair. Got your own task-scheduling map to share? Post it in the comments. Managing Multiple Freelance Gigs With Mind Maps [FreelanceSwitch] More »