Posted by andrew on 26 January, 2008 00:13

Last month we got huge amount of user feedback from you and now actively process and implement that. We released the following features and improvements today:

1. Features to delete cases and projects were voted by majority of users. These features are now available according to the user permissions and will demand annoying explicit confirmation for deletion from you.
2. Charts for weekly cases and pages progress are added in response to numerous requests to have that for project analysis.
3. Global navigation is made even simpler so you can browse your projects even faster. Global breadcrumbs are improved for easier project navigation.
4. Project goal widget is added to the project dashboard to enable the need #1 - keep entire team always aware about the project goal and have the ability to discuss the goal in blog.
5. Milestones UI is polished and refined per your feedback, you may plan your projects even better.
6. Various minor UI improvements are done as well.

Thank you for your interest, we are happy to get your feedback and suggestions!

Project Goal Widget

Project Deletion is Back!

  Posted by godzhesas on 21 January, 2008 16:46

1. Feature Set – Companies have different views what a project management software should include, so read carefully before you choose. Do not get on the marketing tricks like “Our time tracking tool is the best project management tool”, keep your eyes open, a good project management software needs much more then that.
2. Web-based – can be accessed from anywhere, anytime, multi-user.
3. Support – everybody claims that their support is superior, but is it? First thing I’d do, I’d email support with some simple questions and suggestions maybe, and see how quick and how good the respond is.
4. Collaboration – first of all this means working with other team members on a task to reach a defined goal. In other words it’s just day to day communication, and you’ll want this to be as effective as possible – emails, blogs, video conferencing, intranets, extranets etc.
5. Integration - an integrated system combines project management or project planning, with many other aspects of company life. Can the system be integrated with a third party tools? Make sure it does.

Of course there can be said much more on this topic, but i think these are the key things to consider when choosing a project management software. Choose wisely! :)

  Posted by pas on 09 January, 2008 20:19

Project and company blogs are superior instruments for building real team.
Team is actually a set of people who share same goals and, more important, share themselves. Informal communication in distributed team can be done in blogs, where you can store and discuss

• Ideas
• Feelings about the project
• People issues

Ideally, a blog post is equal to team meeting. It may have its own structure and may have not; all post replies are meeting results. Its good when you can combine real-life meetings and blogs.

What's so important about informal communications? It's about people working with people, sharing themselves. Not as functions, but as human beings. Such position, to treat each Coworker as Human, is an essential part of company strategy. Everything may become a space for fulfilling yourself. Starting from project blog ending up with whole company.

Are you really addicted to the idea that successful teams make successful projects?
Me, personally, am sure about it.

Keep talking!