Kim Chan

Ask any project manager about their job, and they will most likely ramble on about how busy they are and the many responsibilities they need to stay abreast of. Project management is about mastering the art of getting things done. Project managers spend many hours keeping their teams together, making sure that all deadlines are […]

How to collaborate with internal users, external partners and customers in OneDesk OneDesk allows you to collaborate with all stakeholders, whether they are internal colleagues, external business partners, contractors, and customers from anywhere in the world. To help you understand how each one is done, we put together this short Q&A. Feel free to let

According to the 2012 CHAOS report, Agile succeeds three times more often than waterfall. Because the use of Agile methodologies helps companies work more efficiently and deliver winning results, Agile adoption is constantly increasing. There have been some significant increases in all aspects of agile adoption from 2011 to 2012. Here are a 10 of

Social networks can sometimes come in really handy. When people think about social networking, they tend to think about it’s use from two different points of views – from a “social” perspective, whereas the use of social networks is simply regarded as a “waste of time,” and from business perspective, in which businesses can use

If you learned that you no longer need to deal with email at work, how would you react? Ever since the CEO of French IT company Atos shocked the world by announcing that he wants to ban email within his workplace, other businesses have been debating whether there really are alternatives to what seems to

Characteristics of Agile technologies While not all Agile solutions are the same, there are certain main characteristics that set them apart from traditional project management software. Promote collaboration The Agile mindset is all about communicating and collaborating between departments. Agile solutions include tools that promote best practices such as team collaboration, stakeholder and customer involvement,

During last Friday’s #PMChat, one of the questions asked by the hosts was “How can social media integration elevate project management & product development?” Having developed our own social media monitoring tool for the purpose of elevating project/product management, we thought we’d elaborate more on this. In the chat, we stated that “Social media allows

I was honored that OneDesk was asked to have been part of “Tools Month” on #PMChat, a weekly Twitter chat that brings leaders in the project management sphere together. Last Friday’s chat was centered around collaboration tools, and we were very happy to be part of an interesting and thought-provoking discussion. If you missed it,

“Analysts report that as many as 71% of software projects that fail do so because of poor requirements management, making it the single biggest reason for project failure – bigger than bad technology, missed deadlines or change management fiascoes.” – Christopher Lindquist, Fixing the Requirements Mess, CIO Magazine Many innovations can be born by simply

What is Requirements Management? 80% of project failures are due to poor requirements management. That’s scary, right? Different companies have different ways of defining this process. Good requirements management is essential for those who want to see better business results and take the lead in their industries. But what does it take to implement a