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Touch of a button information

Effective project management is reliant on accurate and timely reporting. Without access to relevant information, decisions will not be made quickly or efficiently. This can result in significant project implementation issues leading to budget or time over-shoots.

The facilitator

Online project management tools are highly useful. But only if they are used correctly. The project manager and the project team need to ensure that the correct level of detail is being captured. Without accurate information, the tool is useless.

Ostrich or Silverback?

There are two types of management techniques when it comes to addressing issues. THe first is simply to bury your head and hope the issue goes away. This can work if the rest of the team are capable but more often than not can bite the manager badly. And then there is planning and being prepared which helps not only with foreseen potential problems but in handling problems that come out of the blue.

Certification vs. Competency

Certification is not enough to be successful. The ability to manage people is instrumental in building success.

Picturing clarity

A picture can tell a 1000 words as we all know. It’s also a very useful tool when explaining technical project issues to a non-technical project manager. It provides focus for a conversation and a graphical representation of the issue at hand.

A furtive glance!

MyProjectTracker allows you to see the status of all of your projects, internal or client facing, at a single glance. The dashboard is created to give you an immediate update with summary information. Need more? No problem, just click through to the projects of interest.

Just get on with it!

New business owners can worry about every small thing before opening their doors and this can prevent a business ever launching. Provided a strong foundation is in place, the doors should be opened. Problems can be fixed, but it is better to be doing this in operation – otherwise how do you know what the problems really are?