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What are you looking for? What's your learning curve? Here we gather technology, training and educational offerings that can help you better manage your initiatives — and career.

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A deeper look at technology trends and solutions for practitioners, teams and organization.

Tool Shop: RedCritter

- by Brian Bozzuto

There is enormous untapped potential in a project management tool that can leverage agile, social and gaming principles to enhance team productivity and collaboration. RedCritter has launched its first shot at this emerging target, and the hit-and-miss results get a hands-on review here.

Tool Shop: Microsoft SharePoint

- by Trang Husebo, PMP

Projects benefit from tools that promote communication and collaboration among stakeholders and team members. By increasing understanding of goals, priorities, issues and expectations, tools such as Microsoft SharePoint also help to identify — and eliminate — areas of duplication, improving productivity.

Advice, guidance and opportunities to advance your leadership skills and know-how.

Project Leader Resolutions

- by Andy Jordan

A new year brings new challenges — and renewed commitment to excellence for one project leader. What about you? What professional “bad habits” will you leave behind and replace with new best practices in 2012?

Four PM Career Paths

- by Josh Nankivel

There are many different ways to launch a successful career in project management, but depending on your particular background and goals, your path will vary. Here are four common scenarios and appropriate advice for individuals who are trying to get into project management from different backgrounds.

The latest technology solutions for project, program and portfolio practitioners, teams and organizations.

PPM Solutions: August 2011

- by ProjectsAtWork

A wide variety of technology solutions and services are available to help organizations implement, customize and improve their project portfolio management processes. Here is our August roundup of recent updates and announcements from CA, Daptiv, Innotas, Oracle Primavera, Planview, PowerSteering, Rally and others.

PM Apps on the Rise

- by Mary Yanocha

There are now more than 240 PM-related apps for the iPhone and iPad. One of the latest contains 675 flashcards to help individuals preparing for the PMP exam or seeking PDUs for re-certification.

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President, TenStep Inc
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TOOLS & TRAINING

     

Changepoint helps businesses gain competitive advantage and increase profitability through complete portfolio visibility, planning insight, process automation, and improved resource utilization throughout a customer’s lifecycle.

     

EPM Live provides easy to use Microsoft SharePoint Project and Work Management applications for everyone in an organization, from teams that want to work within individual workgroups, to organizations that want to utilize enterprise tools.

     

With Genius Project, leading project and portfolio management software, an organization can easily manage project in a collaborative way. Turn around time is quick, and as a result, project visibility and execution are enhanced.

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