Project Management Tips: How NOT to Plan a Project

It is common that the biggest mistakes are made at the beginning of the project, so in the end even a small mistake can cost you a lot, here a pretty good video on one common mistake at the beginning of the project:

 

Of course there are a lot of different kind of mistakes, what mistakes have you made while managing a project?

How To Read Password Protected Feeds in Google Reader

I don’t know about you, but favorite RSS reader is Google Reader. The only thing that I miss – support for password protected feeds, and i hate using desktop or adobe air applications, because as good as they are none of them offer feed synchronization with Google reader. So, that is where FreeMyFeed comes in. Here is what they offer from there site:

“Have you ever wanted to view an RSS feed in a web base feed reader such as Google Reader or Bloglines, but could not because the feed required user authentication or used an invalid SSL certificate?Well this site aims to be your solution. Using the form above, enter in the feed url, your username and password and then submit. You will be taken to a new page with an alternate URL for your use.This site does not require that you include a username or password. If you want to use this for all of your feeds, whether they require user authentication, are protected by https or whatever, feel free to do so.” 

No of course just be careful what kind of feeds you submit, because this service can’t boast about the security, but for me it is the solution i was looking for, i hope this will help you too.

for a free collaboration tool check out http://ping.fm/VZKn2

Project Management Software Comindwork Releases EmoLogging

Today i got a note that Comindwork released some new cool feature called emolog. Did you ever wondered why for your employee it is more interesting to spend more time on Twitter and Facebook instead of doing his work? Well the answer is simple – because when the work starts to be boring, not social, without interaction with other people, the motivation to work falls down

That is where Comindwork have thought about this cool new feature that will add emtions. “Emolog” here stands for the abbreviation of the “emotion” and “log”. I completely agree that emotions is very important for the team and for the project itself and i believe Comindwork has taken a really great approach, i love the feature, so head and the emolog for yourself.

Blogs About Mindmapping

Technorati Tags: mindmapping blogs,mindmapping software

I am sure that people that deal with project management already know what “mind map” is, today i am not going to do reviews on that software, i am just gona share with some of my favorite blogs about mindmapping and i am sure if you are interested in it, you will find your answer in one of these blogs:

• Peace of Mind (some notes about visualization, MindManager and other graphical tools)
• The MindMapping Software Blog (the title says it all)
• Applications of MindManager (a big collection of articles and tips on how to use MindManager)
• MindMapping Everywhere (theory and practical tips on mindmapping, the author draws maps by hand)
• Study Matrix Blog (big and interesting mindmaps)

 

Are you using any mindmapping tools?

“Ping Fire” – http://ping.fm/O77Cx

maybe someone could share an invite to Jaiku(http://jaiku.com)?

Top 50 Most Expensive Google Adsense Keywords

For everyone who is interested in advertising with google, this will be really useful:

With the raging economical crysis, there is no wonder that most expensive keywords for advertising are related to loans, mortgages and refinancing.

Source

Mary Popendieck On The Role Of Leadership In Software Development

I’ve stumbled on this video on youtube, very interesting, i am sure that you know the speaker, and if you don’t her name is Mary Popendieck, the co-author of the book “Lean Software Development“

From Google Tech Talks. It is a long video but well worthwhile to watch it.

Microsoft Office Alternative OpenOffice Gets New Release

First of all I’d like to say that i am a big fan of open source software, why to pay money when you can get the same thing for free? well ok, maybe not the same thing, but still free.

Everyone will agree me today Microsoft Office is the most popular document and spreadsheet editing program for PCs running on Windows OS, and even for Mac OS users. But with a new release of OpenOffice.org – the open source suite for business applications, the things are looking much better for casual user who is trying to avoid Microsoft dominating his whole PC. It is cross platform, it is free, it has all the stuff you need, compatibility with MS Office 2007. Even more, with OpenOffice you are getting not only a wordprocessor, presentation and spreadsheet program,
but you are getting vector drawing program and relational database. One more major is how OpenOffice handles these multiple program: i think it is way more convenient, because you only need to start a single program and then choose what you want to do at the moment, instead of launching multiple programs like word, excel and powerpoint.

Of course some people might be frustrated by the lack of templates in OpenOffice and yet this suite is great and i hope that with new improvements and releases it will gain more share in the market, thus will have the ability to make this useful open source suite even better.

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