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May
17
Improve Burndown Charts for Your Projects

Agile teams use burndown charts to show the amount of work completed over time to monitor their progress. There are three common patterns to look for in a burndown chart. When progress stalls, the line becomes flat. When work is added,

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May
03
15 reasons why Binfire is the best online application for managing virtual teams

1-Ease of use Binfire has one of the easiest to use and intuitive UI in the market. The user experience is fantastic and most people start using the software in less than 5 minutes of signing for an account. NO

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Apr
26
Moving tasks and reordering

In the task page, you can move tasks several different ways depending on where you want to move the task to. If you want to reorder a task you can just drag it and move it up or down vertically.

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Apr
12
Leveling the Playing Field on Cross-Cultural Teams

Multicultural teams are ubiquitous in today’s business environment, and a lot has been written about them. What is often lost in the discussion of multicultural teams, however, is the experience of individuals — especially individuals from East Asian cultures —

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Apr
08
New features in the latest version

We just released the latest version of binfire’s project management and collaboration tools. The goal of this release was to make the application easy to use. When you log in now, you see your most recent project listed on the

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Apr
01
Why virtual teams need a new type of project management software?

Finishing projects on time and on budget is hard work. It is true for co-located teams, and it is even truer for virtual teams. Virtual teams need to deal with distance, language and cultural issues in addition to all the

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Mar
29
Project Management Trends -IV

PM &  BA Roles are Converging The need for efficiencies and doing more with less is also driving the convergence of Project Management and Business Analyst roles.  For example, who should gather requirements?  The PM or BA?  The answer emerges

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Mar
15
Project management Trends – III

Social Media will become a Norm Communication is a critical element to the success of every project.  And with the increase of virtual/distributed teams comes the need for better communication and collaboration mechanisms.   Even teams that are in the same

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Mar
12
Project management Trends -II

Virtual & Independent Teams will be more Prevalent Virtual project teams are increasing in 2010 as well.  Instead of companies maintaining all the skills internally or in one location – they are leveraging skills needed for projects where ever the

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Mar
12
Project management Trends -I

PM’s are becoming Independent Consultants Project Management jobs are starting to open up as we slowly move out of this economic recession.  Companies have been trying to cut expenses and save money, so new projects have been rather sparse in

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