PPM Tools and Technology Blogs
Journeyman PM is a blog under the direction of Bert Heymans, a project manager with a heavy emphasis on his background in software development. He started the blog as heymans.org in 2006 and moved over to the journeymanpm.com URL for good in 2010, and posts at least once every two weeks. “Making my readers better [...]
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The Planner Tutorials Hub is a blog for project managers, controllers, schedulers and planners alike with a need for quality guides on how to work with certain tools common to the trade. Planner Tutorials is headed by Michael Lepage, a “a Primavera and Project Management expert working with companies large and small.” Lepage also works [...]
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Frankly PM is a monthly project management “lessons learnt” blog under the leadership of Cola Richmond. Cola is a London-based Senior Digital Project Manager, currently serving as Head of Project Management for an undisclosed corporate communications agency. Frankly PM is one of two strong social mediums Cola heads up, as she has expanded her reach [...]
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bornagainagilist is a blog from a practitioner best described as a project manager by accident, Terry Bunio, who works as a Principal Consultant at Protegra. Terry told us: “I never wanted to be a Project Manager. I started as a software developer and found my technical calling in Data Architecture. Along the way, I discovered [...]
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Planbox Agile is a blog operated by Alexandre Gauthier since 2009 used in conjunction with the the Planbox Agile project management tool, owned and operated out of Montreal. Alexandre told us “makes it easy for small teams in organizations of all sizes to plan, collaborate and deliver.” “There is a lot of confusion in the [...]
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Business-Driven PPM is a blog directed by Matthew Barnett for PowerSteering Software, which is a “leader in business-driven project & portfolio management (PPM) solutions for managing IT Governance, PMOs, Performance Improvement, Product Development, and other strategic initiatives.” “Our easy-to-use software provides business executives at BayCare, Frito-Lay, Merck, PolyOne, Shaw Industries, UK National Health Service, US [...]
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The microTOOL blog is a corporate software blog that focuses an expertise on “software development, project management, multi-project management, requirements management, configuration management and quality management,” according to microTOOL spokeswoman Tanja Weiss. “Our software solutions are suitable for processes like V-Modell XT, PRINCE2, Scrum or individual processes and enhance process maturity. Standards like SPICE or [...]
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The Doolpy blog is run by the people behind Doolphy, an online project management tool aiming to give its users the ability to plan, organise and control projects that will increase their probability of success. Rosa Alnasser Román is one of the company’s several bloggers for the weekly site, which premiered in January 2010, and [...]
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Web Soup is a blog run by Andy Bawden, a project manager and eCommerce specialist with 9 years experience as a pm. The blog has undergone a change recently, switching from the WordPress to Posterous in February 2011. Andy’s credentials as a PRINCE2 practitioner with nearly a decade of experience across the public and private [...]
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Fixing Projects is a blog that premiered in May 2010 under the direction of Carol Long, CEO for Three Triangles Performance Ltd. Carol has experience as a programme and project manager, interim manager and consultant in high-tech, public and not-for-profit sectors. She specialises in assisting senior management get value from their project, and also has [...]
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Lisa Drake’s PM Blog is the blog from a jack-of-all-trades Nevadan that has found time to master the fine art that is project management. Lisa, based in the popularly-referenced “biggest little city in the world”, Reno, combines experiences/passions both professionally and of an extracurricular, personal variety to give a regularly updated blog chock full of [...]
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Save the Monkey in the Middle is a project management blog run by partners Tamara Moore and an unidentified colleague that started in December 2010. Both combine for 21 years of project management experience, work for the Department of Defense, and use the invaluable assets with their experience in a way which they both felt [...]
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Tom’s Planner is a blog started in November 2009 based on a unique niche in the PPM blogosphere – a vision for better planning tools in the profession. Thomas Ummels had worked for six years as a project manager, but soon grew frustrated with a specific pain of the job: Gantt Charts. Thomas told us: [...]
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Freelancer Project Management is a PPM blog maintained by Jennifer Kantmere, who should know something about the matter herself. A freelance business writer and entrepreneur, Jennifer trained in public sector project management in the UK and left in 2008 to go it alone as a freelance project manager working with small-to-medium sized businesses. She now [...]
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SpanishPMO is a Spanish-language project management blog run by Fermin de Rojas that focuses on elements within PM, namely methodologies, tools, jobs and coaching. A bilingual project management expert educated at Brighton University, Fermin was startled to find a wealth of PM blogs available in English, compared to the relative lack in his native Spanish, [...]
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PMP certified Iván Rivera has hosted his self-titled blog since February 2007, posting twice monthly mostly in Spanish, but with the occassional English post to expand his audience to a bilingual capacity. That said, modern toolbars and search engines allow Ivan to be fully translatable to the masses of project managers he generally targets. “In [...]
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ProjectManagementSuccess.net is a blog run by a project manager and information systems consultant known only to her readers as Karen. The blog premiered earlier in 2010, offering weekly tidbits of Karen’s life experiences over the entirety of her decade in project management. “My area of interest and expertise is software development project management, particularly in [...]
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Around The CHAOS (ATC) is a fairly new PPM blog run by Sam Palani, PMP, a veteran international Senior IT Project / Program Manager and Technology Management consultant for over 15 years. Begun in June 2010, Sam says he introduced ATC to the PPM blogosphere as agent to fill a specific gap. “Though there are [...]
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PRINCE2 in Spanish is a blog run by freelance consultant Jose Luis Fernandez that began in May 2009 with an aim “to promote the use of PRINCE2 in Spanish and help with the PRINCE2 certification.” Jose Luis posts up to two times monthly, providing a distinctive Spanish-language voice for PRINCE2 focussed project managers worldwide. “PRINCE2 [...]
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PM Technix is the newest blog we’ve added at PPM Community to date. Specifically, it came out almost exactly two weeks after this post was published. While there may be some time in need of passing before PM Technix is overflowing with content-rich PPM elements, there’s no doubt that Bruce Lofland will be the person [...]
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The Practicing IT PM is another recent addition to PPM blogosphere by Las Vegas native Dave Gordon, IT Project Portfolio Manager for MGM Resorts International since 2006. Starting in June 2010 (merely two months before this feature), Dave felt The Practicing IT PM would be the perfect outlet for sharing an expertise that stretches over [...]
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EarthPM’s oft-mentioned slogan is “at the intersection of Green and Project Management,” a power-packed credo for two veteran project managers left with an indelible imprint on the importance of resource sustainability. Rich Maltzman and Dave Shirley have worked primarily as project management practitioners in their respective 30 years of field experience, and in launching EarthPM [...]
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Project Management Success is a PPM strategy blog for project management software company AtTask, Inc., headed by Jessie Warner. The blog, like a few others we’ve mentioned on PPM Community, is unique: within a month of its inception (17th June 2010, to be precise), Project Management Success was profiled by us. Jessie, an MBA holder [...]
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Project Manager Blog is the front blog for Method 123, a software company that, according to PM log spokesman Jason (surname unknown) ”tries to give back to the community through free articles on how to better manage projects.” Originating in 2009 as a means of public relations for Method 123, Project Manager Blog has since expanded [...]
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Microsoft EPM Solution is the blog by PJ Mistry, a Microsoft Certified EPM & SharePoint Consultant and Trainer. PJ started the blog in 2008 to help the Microsoft EPM User Community and blogs about 2-3 times a week. PJ is a Microsoft Certified EPM & SharePoint Consultant and Trainer (MCP, MCT, MCTS, MCITP), working for [...]
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Projects@Work whilst not strictly a blog, it’s certainly an excellent resource for the latest articles, whitepapers and content on project management. Edited by Aaron Smith, Projects@Work is described as “where the art and science of project management meets“. Aaron is a business journalist, writer and editor with 20+ years experience. Projects@Work started out in January [...]
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