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25 Secrets of Successful Project Managers

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In today’s world of PM, it’s not just project managers who get to have all the fun. Workers of all types are  finding themselves in and out of the driver’s seat as projects shift and change, so to help them along the way, we put together a quick reference guide of some of the best…

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Mindjet for Web Now Connects to Your Favorite Cloud Storage Services

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Today’s project teams include team members from across an organization – and from outside the company as well. Often, external vendors bring along their own favorite service for uploading and sharing files with the rest of the team. Services like Box or Google Drive or Dropbox are great in helping bridge that gap between internal…

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Hint, Hint: Project Management’s Dirty Little Secret

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As the business world shifts and settles into the more mobile, collaborative structure of industries gone agile, more and more people find themselves acting as project managers — without any formal training. The internet is filled with advice from the pros; downloadable guides, crowdsourced book projects, and tip after tip. After tip. But even with…

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Project Management Roll-up: Questions to Ask, Lessons to Learn and Secrets Revealed

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Conspire focused heavily on project management in April, with posts covering everything from mistakes to avoid to the right questions to ask. Check out five of our favorites below. 1. Help! I’m an Unofficial Project Manager Project management is something for everyone, not just those officially called Project Managers. Anyone in a management role within any…

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Why Implementing Project Management Best Practices Means Something Different for Everyone

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How many times have you read a blog or article that claims to have vetted the thousands upon thousands of tips to come up with *the* definitive list of project management best practices? And how many times have those lists contained not-so-new advice, or made suggestions that just don’t fit your organization? While there’s nothing…

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Using Mindjet for Windows Gantt Charts for Effective Project Management

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The shift to online, tech-grounded project management practices hasn’t gone over well with everyone. Traditional methods became traditional because they worked well. They made sense. And sometimes they just don’t translate to digital without sacrificing important things like manual control. With Gantt charts — a type of bar chart that illustrates a project’s schedule, terminal…

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Using Mindjet for Mac in Agile Time-Boxing

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Good news: you have less time to do more!  I’m not kidding. Scrum masters can do it, and I’ll show you how I accomplish it in three easy steps using our Mindjet for Mac product! Time-boxing is one of my favorite Agile principles, and I’ve used it ruthlessly since reading One-Minute-Manager in college. Like other…

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