Twproject: project management software,resource management, time tracking, planning, Gantt, kanban
Twproject is a full featured web based project management software that gives you full visibility and control over your projects.Twproject is also a time tracking software, a bug tracking software, a project planning software.
What is a Gantt Chart? Why it can be useful to manage your project? If you have never heard of it, it’s important to know that Gantt diagram is a very versatile tool to visualize and track the timing and progress of a task. CONTENT What is the purpose of the Gantt chart? 4 reasons … Continue reading “Project Management Basics: 4 Reasons to Use Gantt Charts”
Issues in the production process in the modern industrial world are common and can harm a company’s efficiency and profitability. These problems range from minor hiccups to severe failures that can undermine the entire production line. Reviewing these problems is not only a core part of project managers working in industrial manufacturing but can be … Continue reading “Reviewing an issue in the production process”
CONTENT 7 tips to increase work productivity 1. Focus on one activity at a timet 2. Take regular breaks 3. Focus on the most important tasks first 4. Set small goals 5. Delegate some tasks 6. Boost work productivity: use the tomato technique 7. No meetings Boosting your team’s work productivity is no impossible feat, … Continue reading “7 tips to boost work productivity”
People often confuse projects with processes. Some might argue that this is only a question of semantics and that saying “project” rather than “process” does not change much. CONTENT INDEX Project vs. process: the definition Project vs. process: the common points Project vs. process: the differences Further differences between process and project Projects, projects and … Continue reading “Process or project? What differences? What goals?”
Agile and Lean are two popular methods in the project management world that help teams deliver faster, more sustainable results. However, the differences and similarities between these two methodologies are often not clear. Even the terms themselves are often used in the wrong manner, as synonyms to describe a particular set of practices. For a … Continue reading “Lean and Agile: differences and similarities”
The Critical Path Method (CPM) is an algorithm used to plan a set of project activities, its purpose is to highlight the steps involved in the longest path that determines the project end date. To use this method, you must build the model by paying attention to: Define all projects’s phases Highlight dependencies between phases … Continue reading “Critical Path in Project Management – How to”
We know that, you are a project manager and you really need to close your tasks on time and on budget. Recently, increasing company’s culture has become important as well so now, to those two goals you have to add a third one: work with an happy and productive team. Work in a relaxed environment … Continue reading “How to Improve Resource Management and Get The Best From Your Team”
Have you ever had the feeling that everything in your to-do list has maximum priority? If yes, which method do you use to identify what can be postponed? Being a project manager, you know that managing project timelines is crucial; with a correct and realistic plan you will be able to work better, and all … Continue reading “3 Useful Tips to Improve Work Time Management”
Most of project managers have to face projects whose planning was done incorrectly, not in line with customer expectations, with the bad result of big delays and budget overflows, and maybe this has happened to you too.It is true, companies are being renewed, working groups are heterogeneous and distributed, increasingly flexible, and often, this flexibility … Continue reading “How SCRUM methodology can help you minimizing project risks”
Estimate projects correctly is a difficult task that every project manager has to face. It doesn’t matter if you estimate in order to evaluate resource work load (time/effort estimation) or just to create customers’ offer (cost estimation), the problem is just the same. How can I predict exceptions, delay, bottle necks and create an estimate … Continue reading “The Most Effective Strategy to Estimate Projects”
I recently read a very interesting post about how to use Scrum methodology in a SEO & Digital Marketing Team. The post has been written by Marcus Miller (@marcusbowlerhat) and you can read it here: Using agile project management for SEO & digital marketing This post gives me the idea to write a new one … Continue reading “Scrum With Twproject for SEO & Digital Marketing”
One of the biggest challenges, a project manager can face in a new team, is to change things for the better and let this changes take effect without the resistance of the team. One of the most frequent examples is when a project manager decides to introduce a new tool for project management. This moment … Continue reading “How to Introduce Project Management Software & Succeed”
Despite what people think, being a project manager requires a lot of creativity. A project manager has to be creative managing his resources and their productivity lacks , emotions or peculiar ideas, be creative in communication with his own bosses, be creative managing large projects with unexpected delays… So, how to stay creative even when … Continue reading “How to be an Innovative Project Manager (Infographic)”
Even if I’ve worked with Twproject for several years I get surprised every day by its number of hidden features. The one that I show you today could really help you, if, for example, you cannot access the application and you have to create a task to save information that you can loose otherwise. Twproject … Continue reading “Tips & Tricks: Create Projects by E-mail”
These days, companies has to face an ever growing need for dynamic teams, shared groups of people working together through the internet. This need increases hand by hand with the difficulty of managing team dynamics and project updates. For this reason, using conventional software like Microsoft project, built for managing projects in their best case scenario with … Continue reading “How To Manage Distributed Teams – Sharing is Caring”
Even if every company has its own peculiarity, we find, in our experience, that company with same business share also the same internal processes. This is probably the reason why, often, our customers, ask us for project’s template that they can import and adjust in their own Twproject instance. This helps them starting with Twproject easily, refining … Continue reading “Software Development Project Template – Free Download”
Perhaps your are the busiest person you know….. in this case you will probably need some help to stay productive and focused on your main tasks and goals, so go ahead and read this post 🙂 Global research and studies have pointed out some great new data in order to help us understanding what prevent … Continue reading “3 Productivity Infographic You Need to See”
Staying productive is the hardest and compelling task for all employees: be focused at your desk closing task for all day long. It isn’t simple. Isn’t it? Productivity is a famous topic, covered in hundreds and hundreds of posts, most of them giving a lot of interesting hints to keep up a high energy level at work. However, in … Continue reading “5 ways to get a more productive environment”
Procrastination is one of the biggest weakness of nowadays, the worst person you could hire in your company is the procrastinator: not the one unable of working in team, not the one unable to make the right decision, not the one unable of organize his own work, just the procrastinator. Just reading these few first lines you can … Continue reading “5 tricks to turn procrastination into productivity”
When a company feels the need of introducing a project management software is probably because a deep change is happening. Time of changing introduce a feeling of uncertainty that often terrifying people. It is instead usually a great opportunity for a company to grow and improve methodologies and results. When your work is well organized, working … Continue reading “The Most Effective Way to Solve Management Problem”
