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Posts Tagged ‘project management’
Stature Launches 12pm!
June 3rd, 2010 by Gregory Silvano Posted in Stature Projects | No Comments »We’re pleased to announce the launch of our newest product: 12pm.
12pm allows you to manage your project management accounts from your mobile device. Perfect for anybody with an iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm Pre, or Windows Mobile device who wants to access their Basecamp, Gemini, Jira, or Bugzilla account.
What’s so great about 12pm? For me it’s the fact I can manage all of my various project managers in one place, using one user interface. We have clients who use Basecamp, Jira, and CounterSoft Gemini. Now I don’t have to log into three different sites to see my tickets – I just use 12pm.
Try our free 14-day trial and get set up in just minutes. Let me know what you think!
Tags: android, basecamp, blackberry, bugzilla, gemini, iPhone, jira, mobile, project management
The Most Important Project Manager Skill?
July 24th, 2008 by Gregory Silvano Posted in Software Development | 1 Comment »For the past few days, I’ve been working closely with Stature’s newest hire, Mike Bykow. He’s a Project Manager at Stature and is handling several projects for us.
As I was driving him back to South Station yesterday, I listed all the things I think are important for a Project Manager at Stature (or anywhere, for that matter). I mentioned the obvious things, like: communicating with the clients, making sure you understand every facet of the application, keep in touch with the developers frequently so you’re on top of schedule slips, etc.
But then I told him something that, the more I expanded on the idea, I realized it was the most important skill of all. I told him he needs to learn to finish the project.
Software projects can go on forever. Literally. They can be tweaked and tweaked for months on end. This is beneficial to no one, but especially for a company like Stature. We need to finish projects to maintain profit since nearly all of our projects are fixed-price and we don’t issue change orders (see our 3 Guarantees). So to have a project run over by a month is a big deal for us since we can’t recoup those costs. Software Projects don’t end naturally - they need to told to end.
If I were a Project Manager, I’d want to be known as The Closer. The guy who wraps up his projects on time, on budget, and to spec. If another project is running past schedule, I want to be the guy they bring in to restore order and get the project done.
In the coming weeks, I want to expand on this topic and discuss the tricks we’ve learned over the years that allow us to close a project. It’s something you learn through experience and observation, and I think with just a few high-level rules any Project Manager can become The Closer.
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