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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: 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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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: Roadmunk
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Product Review: Roadmunk

Roadmunk is a roadmapping software designed to fill a gap left by many popular project management products—the ability to communicate strategy to an executive audience. I’ve faced this challenge many times in my career when using the work management products commonly available in an office environment.

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Product Review: Hey
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Product Review: Hey

Oh, hey! Here comes the ubiquitous Hey product review. Hey is a subscription-based email service that was developed by Basecamp, a time management software company renowned for its forward-leaning practices around the future of work. Productivity nerds like me have been eagerly awaiting the launch of Hey for months.

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Solutioning and Project Management
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Solutioning and Project Management

When a colleague asked me to write about the difference between solutioning and project management, I knew that solutioning had transcended from a passing fad to a full-blown trend. Solutioning seeks to structure the problem solving process so that it is consistent, repeatable, and generates optimal results.

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Storyboarding for Report Writing
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Storyboarding for Report Writing

On the last few deliverables I’ve worked, we were having difficulty synthesizing the information in a coherent manner, incorporating perspectives from multiple authors, and organizing the content in a logical sequence for the reader to process. So, I’m trying a new approach. Here is our plan to storyboard as part of the report writing process.

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