Category: Project Management Tools

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#013 – Estimating IT Projects and an Update

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I will be presenting on Estimating IT Projects at PD Days in Moncton May 23rd.  I also talk about my new on-demand Estimating IT Projects training course.

Show Notes:
  1. Host: Ron Smith
  2. Music: www.hooksounds.com
  3.  www.chalder.ca
  4. PMI NB – PD Days
  5. Course Information link: Estimations Course mailing list and info.

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Ron Smith

Ron is a Project Manager with Chalder Consulting Inc. www.chalder.ca

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Manuscript from Fog Creek Software

I wanted to do a comparison on Project Management Software and reached out to Fog Creek software first.  They use to have an evidence based scheduling tool that was a neat feature in a product called Fogbugz.  The way that tools works is to analyse past estimates vs actuals (evidence) to guess how a particular developer should really be estimating.  They’ve now moved this evidence based scheduling into a product called Manuscript.

I signed up for the demo and was sent a followup email from the company (Will) asking how I was making out.  To my surprise I was impressed that Will interacted with me on a few emails and was willing to share a demo he just recorded which I’m pasting into the post.  Kind of nice to get some human interaction these days!

They have a good Kanban view option and I like the ease of the tool.  Check out this 11 minute video provided by Will!

I’ll be sure to add to this post in the future – but wanted to pass this along 🙂

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Project Management Software | Clarity and Open Workbench

I’ve noticed several enterprise organizations working with Clarity and Open Workbench lately.  Enterprises are looking outside the traditional MS Project Tool set for their project management software.

Clarity is an enterprise back-end solution that is well-suited to run portfolios of projects. It seems to hold every slice of enterprise project data you could ever imagine. The reporting is robust; however, there is a learning curve to access the data. It takes some time to master the movements and to understand how each piece of data relates to the other in the Clarity UI. You will have several “Aha” moments along the learning path as you understand how it is all interconnected. Continue reading “Project Management Software | Clarity and Open Workbench”