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• Three Ways Our Customers Are Fighting the Recession
  Published 29 October 2008
  The economic climate as of late has become demonstrably unstable and, as a result, many businesses are battening down the hatches and making preparations for the upcoming fiscal year. This means cutting down on operating costs, eliminating projects that...
• Making Milestones Matter
  Published 16 October 2008
  In our most recent post, we introduced you to project milestones and how they can be used to effectively measure the progress of your projects. To recap: Milestones should be obvious—anyone on your project team should be able to easily recognize...
• Introduction to Milestones
  Published 14 October 2008
  Over the past couple of weeks we’ve covered a variety of project planning concepts, like breaking up large tasks and recognizing shared dependencies between tasks . One subject that we have not covered is how to definitively measure progress in...
• The Art of Assignment
  Published 10 October 2008
  In our most recent article, we talked about how to schedule tasks using project charts . If you read it then you already have a good idea of how to correctly order and prioritize tasks. In today’s article we’re going to discuss how to build...
• Scheduling Tasks with Project Charts
  Published 8 October 2008
  The first step to becoming a more efficient project manager is to decompose your project into small tasks using mind maps , an issue which we discussed last week. Today we’re going to address the second step in the process, which is setting the...
• Four Techniques I Use to be a Better Manager
  Published 22 May 2008
  When I founded SmartDraw.com I was a software developer not a manager. Not that this mattered much because the only person I needed to manage at the time was me! As the company grew, management was "thrust upon me", and I learned four techniques I still...
• Getting It Done On-Time with Simple Project Management
  Published 20 May 2008
  The most important aspect of any project, personal or corporate, is cost and cost is determined by the answers to the following two questions: How much time am I going to need? And how many people am I going to need? My background is primarily in software...
• Screencast: Managing Projects with SmartDraw
  Published 15 May 2008
  In this screencast we show you how you can use SmartDraw and to manage projects; first we show you how to scope your project with a mind map , then we show you how you can easily convert that mind map into a project chart (Gantt Chart) , and finally we...

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