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Project Management Software for Small Teams

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For startups and small businesses, it’s crucial to start using special project management tools early on. However, the price of most tools is barely affordable for a new business. The good news is that a tool with all the necessary functionalities can be cost-efficient! Here is a list of free project management software tools that are great to start working on your projects with.

1. GanttProject

GanttProject allows you to organize work structure and manage projects in an easy way. Create tasks and break work down in a hierarchical tree, set deadlines, priorities, and milestones, and create dependency constraints between tasks. Set up profiles for system users with basic contact information, pay rates, and roles. Assign them work and monitor their workload.

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Project Management Software for Small Teams

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For startups and small businesses, it’s crucial to start using special project management tools early on. However, the price of most tools is barely affordable for a new business. The good news is that a tool with all the necessary functionalities can be cost-efficient! Here is a list of free project management software tools that are great to start working on your projects with.

1. GanttProject

GanttProject allows you to organize work structure and manage projects in an easy way. Create tasks and break work down in a hierarchical tree, set deadlines, priorities, and milestones, and create dependency constraints between tasks. Set up profiles for system users with basic contact information, pay rates, and roles. Assign them work and monitor their workload.

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Extreme Programming: Values, Principles, and Practices

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With software engineering being in such a fast-paced environment, traditional project management approaches are no longer viable. That means that IT professionals must find new ways to handle frequently changing development tasks.

Sharing this idea and focusing on the existing incremental development techniques, 17 software specialists introduced the Agile project management philosophy in 2001. Principles of flexible, fast, and collaboration-centered software development were outlined in the Agile Manifesto.

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Top 7 Features to Look for in Your Project Management Tool

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Every organization and business needs a good project management tool to make work more efficient and collaboration more effective.

According to research by Capterra, project management software is the most needed software by nearly half of the U.S.

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Time Wasters in Project Management

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A project’s success stems from a number of things. Among others, it includes sensible planning, professionalism of the team members and individual productivity levels.

Nevertheless, there are certain aspects to almost every project that take more time than planned. This leads to missed deadlines and incomplete task scopes. Do you remember the last time your project met the deadlines? In this article, we are going to discuss three central problems with project time.

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The Importance of Feedback in Project Management

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Feedback is a vital part of any project manager’s skillset. Not just giving it, but also receiving it. Let’s talk about its role, why it’s so valuable and how to get better at providing it.

The Benefits of Feedback

For a start, providing feedback—when done regularly—keeps everyone on track. That’s beneficial for anyone involved in the project.

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How to Make Your Next Webinar More Interesting

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Remember the time you were sitting in the university lecture about staying focused?

The hall was full of students, all attentively listening to the energetic instructor. He really knew what he was talking about — or at least it seemed so.

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The Growing Importance of Project Management: A Global Trend

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Until recently, many jobs simply didn’t exist. Take a wind farm engineer, for example, or an e-learning course developer. The rapidly emerging technology creates new occupations and changes the way people work.There is also a good deal of jobs which are not new, but remain overshadowed and blended into various other occupations.

Surprisingly, project management wasn’t recognized as a distinct occupation until recent time – at least, not in the U.S. Department of Labor’s official statistics.

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Running a Successful Open Source Project

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This post is based on a talk that Gunnar Wagenknecht and I delivered at the Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 and Devoxx US 2017. This content was recently published in the All Eyes on Open Source issue of JAX Magazine.

Running an open source project is easy. All you have to do is make your source code available and you’re open source, right? Well, maybe. Ultimately, whether or not an open source project is successful depends on your definition of success. Regardless of your definition, creating an open source project can be a lot of work. If you have goals regarding adoption, for example, then you need to be prepared to invest. While open source software is “free as in beer”, it’s not really free: time and energy are valuable resources and these valuable resources need to be invested in the project.

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