OneNote can be an invaluable tool for project managers when it comes to planning, collaboration, and tracking a project. Here are seven ways OneNote can be applied when it comes to project management: Collaborative Requirements Gathering – By using a … Continue reading Seven ways Project Managers can use OneNote
OneNote can be an invaluable tool for project managers when it comes to planning, collaboration, and tracking a project. Here are seven ways OneNote can be applied when it comes to project management: Collaborative Requirements Gathering – By using a section in an OneNote notebook, project requirements can be captured and reviewed by the team. When finished the section can be saved to streamline the production of a final requirements document. Task Assignment and Tracking – OneNote can be used for simple task assignment through checklists. Notes and completion statuses are captured on the same page to provide the PM … Continue reading Seven ways Project Managers can use OneNote
Whether you are a consultant, business analyst, project manager, or just a professional tasked with gathering information from other people, you will at some point run into people who are resistant to sharing what they know. In this article we … Continue reading Dealing with Resistance to Sharing Information
OneNote can be an invaluable tool for project managers when it comes to planning, collaboration, and tracking a project. Here are seven ways OneNote can be applied when it comes to project management: Collaborative Requirements Gathering – By using a section in an OneNote notebook, project requirements can be captured and reviewed by the team. When finished the section can be saved to streamline the production of a final requirements document. Task Assignment and Tracking – OneNote can be used for simple task assignment through checklists. Notes and completion statuses are captured on the same page to provide the PM a … Continue reading Seven ways project managers can use OneNote
Project Management Offices are responsible for not only ensuring projects complete within their organization’s defined success parameters but are also responsible for sharing project management best practices to improve consistency and quality in the delivery of projects. Locating tools to … Continue reading Can a PMO benefit from OneNote?
Being able to organize and share information easily and effectively is one of the core tenants of collaboration. I’ve been applying OneNote as the main tool in facilitating a collaboration project for the end of this year. I’m going through the exercise of cleaning up a year’s worth of engagement notes and turning them into something viable that can be used by other team members to support work done and work yet to be done. Normally this would be a fairly convoluted exercise but by leveraging the capabilities of OneNote I’m finding some efficiencies I had not anticipated. Gathering everything in … Continue reading Using OneNote to Package Information for Others
In Part One I talked about the ideas behind using Springpad for project management. Now here in Part Two we’ll cover one of the ways to set up your Springpad for just such a purpose. One of the keys to … Continue reading Springpad and Project Management – Parts 2 and 3
This is the first part in a three part series about implementing the Idea Pump approach of using Springpad for project management. Part one will focus on the why and why not to use Springpad when managing projects for teams. Part two will cover getting started setting up your project management system in Springpad and part three will cover putting it to use. Part 1 – What is project management the Idea Pump way? When we discuss project management in polite circles you’ll often hear terms such as “Agile”, “Scrum”, or “PMBOK” tossed about. Rather than focusing on implementing a … Continue reading Springpad and Project Management – Part 1
