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The latest News and Information on Project Management, Methodologies, Productivity and Tools.

OneDesk - Availability & Resource Management

Learn how to set working hours, manage workload and resources in OneDesk. OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

Best 7 Earned Value Management Software for Smart Teams

Earned Value Management or EVM platform is a set of tools that combine to offer a system for measuring project progress based on cost and budget. Every EVM software uses different tools to integrate with each other, and many different approaches are used to ensure everyone is utilizing the system’s benefits at best. EVM gives you the perfect solution with authentic information on your project’s progress.

Qualitative Risk Analysis for Beginner Level Project Managers

To deal with risks successfully, each project manager should develop and implement a risk management strategy, plan, and tools at the start of each project. Mostly, People are bad at assessing risk. They allow biases to influence their decisions or emotions to stymie decision-making processes. This is why project managers must understand how to analyze risk quickly, efficiently, and strategically for qualitative risk assessment.

How to maintain outstanding project leadership

In today’s project-driven business landscape, project managers are an indispensable part of completing projects successfully. But a closely related and equally important discipline receives much less attention: project leadership. Maybe it’s because one is a fairly standard job title and the other isn’t.

Sound the alarm: Would you even know if 'quiet quitting' was hurting your profits?

Quiet quitters don’t abandon ship. They don’t complain loudly. Instead these employees gently pull-back, and your business stops benefitting from their entire focus, energy and brilliance. For leaders, that should trigger alarm bells. But many carry on like nothing is amiss. The question isn’t whether you have people in your company that have stopped going ‘above and beyond’—inevitably, you do.

How to Ensure Your Business Offers a Healthy Work Environment: Creating a Positive and Safe Workplace

The word healthy, on its Latin root, means “whole“. A healthy workplace then is one where the employees can work together as a whole, being highly productive as a team while maintaining good interpersonal relationships. And you, as their employer, are responsible for creating a healthy and safe work environment for them. A healthy work environment includes ensuring that the workplace is free of hazards and that employees have the necessary tools and training to do their job safely.

Time Logs: What are they? And Why are They Important?

You’ve heard it said over and over again that time is money. The reason that’s such an often repeated cliche is that it’s actually true. The time you and your team spend on projects and various activities throughout the office correlates directly with your profits. And time logs are a perfect way to organize it. If you don’t know how much time something takes, you can’t accurately gauge how important the task is for your bottom line or how valuable your time is.

A Guide to Workload Management in OneDesk

Workload management involves getting a clear picture of who is available and when, in order to utilize your team’s full capacity and exceed goals. In OneDesk there are multiple ways to manage your team’s workload. You can determine how many tasks are assigned to someone, how much time they have available in a given period, the actual time or progress logged to work, and more.

Solving Business Challenges: How to Identify and Address Your Company's Problems

It was all fun and excitement when you first created your business, but at some point, things got a bit sidetracked, and now problems are piling up! Whether it’s a drop in sales, an issue with product quality, or something else entirely, business challenges are inevitable. All businesses have their own unique set of challenges that they must face. It’s how you identify and address those problems that determine your company’s success.