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Task Management – The missing link
By Neil Miller · 13 years ago
Project schedules provide a framework (WBS) of high level tasks. Progress on these tasks is regularly updated in terms of a percentage complete. Based on the percentage complete of each task, project managers look for ...
Simple Change Management software
By Neil Miller · 13 years ago
Change Management is becoming a growth industry involving many methods, tools and external consultants. Most of these try to facilitate communications that should be a natural part of how people collaborate. Unfortunately most of these ...
Linking Tasks to To Do’s
By Neil Miller · 13 years ago
Tasks are generally completed by doing actions. A task defines what has to be achieved, and actions define how a task is to be done. For high productivity, a simple way to consistently link tasks, ...
WORK PLANS in 10 Minutes
By Neil Miller · 15 years ago
Most productive people use some form of a work plan to sort out what they need to do and to guide them when they are doing the work. People generally agree that they need a ...
Practical Leadership – Clear Direction
By Neil Miller · 15 years ago
One of the key tasks of a leader is to provide clear direction for the path to be followed. Otherwise followers have to guess where they need to contribute their time and effort. For direction ...
Know what is happening – Know what to do
By Neil Miller · 15 years ago
In today’s fast moving, distributed workplaces it is becoming more and more difficult to know what is actually happening. Without knowing what is actually happening, it is very hard to work out what needs to ...
Alignment of People is essential for High Productivity
By Neil Miller · 15 years ago
In today’s workplaces, characterized by more work, less people, faster changes, greater complexity, greater connectivity, and separated people; the alignment of work through people is essential for high productivity. In most cases, complexity and change ...
Distributed Project Management
By Neil Miller · 15 years ago
There is an urgent need for a distributed project management web software to help project managers and people doing the projects to get projects done. In traditional project management, the project manager is central and ...