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Product Review: Bonsai
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Product Review: Bonsai

Bonsai appeals to me both as a project manager AND as a freelancer looking for ways that I can more easily manage client and financial data. If you’re in the business of agency, freelance, or consulting work, Bonsai’s business management offerings in combination with its project management capabilities are downright impressive.

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Product Review: Zoho Projects
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Product Review: Zoho Projects

I’m continually curious to learn more about the enterprise project management software market 🤓 This time, I’m taking a look at Zoho Projects, the project management software solution associated with a much larger Chennai-based B2B software company called Zoho.

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Product Review: Asana
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Product Review: Asana

Asana’s tagline is to “work on big ideas, without the busywork.” How much latent productivity could you unlock if knowledge workers spent more time on their area of expertise rather than on the mechanics of managing and reporting on their personal workloads? This is where Asana seeks to add value.

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Product Review: Moqups
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Product Review: Moqups

Moqups sees its product as a solution to the ongoing challenges around requirements definition. In their view, creating good requirements is “more art than science.” Engaging a diverse swathe of people early in the process and continuing to question and refine initial hypotheses is key to generating the best possible set of requirements.

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When to Say No to Things at Work
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When to Say No to Things at Work

For the first five to ten years of your career, you should say yes. To everything. You should say yes so much that you’ll want to throw up from saying yes. Once you achieve a certain career threshold, you need to shift from saying yes to saying no. And, if you thought saying yes was hard, it’s nothing compared with the difficulty of saying no.

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Product Review: CROOW
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Product Review: CROOW

CROOW is a project management software company that describes itself as being at the nexus of project management and business management. For this post, I had the opportunity not only to demo the product but also to speak with CROOW’s founder to learn about the origins of one of the new kids on the block in the PM software space.

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The Unpopular PM
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The Unpopular PM

As a proud millennial and child of the ‘90s, I distinctly remember the ubiquitous educational posters adorning the walls of my elementary and middle school imploring us to remember that “what is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.” What do you do when project stakeholders resist adopting effective program management practices?

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Product Review: Nirvana.Work
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Product Review: Nirvana.Work

I am constantly on the hunt for new productivity products, so I was looking forward to testing out Nirvana.Work, which bills itself as the world’s most powerful automated planning system. A lot of project management software can be convoluted, especially for young teams that are starting out. Nirvana.Work could be adapted for small-scale projects with relatively minimal effort.

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Product Review: Hive
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Product Review: Hive

Hive is productivity and collaboration software that is famously used by teams at world-class companies ranging from Google to Starbucks to Toyota to IBM. As a productivity and community building enthusiast, Hive was on my list of products to try.

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