Commitment, that’s what makes teams work, and lets teams work together. Actually, it’s commitments, which is why Milestone Planner is a commitment management system, at its heart. What are my commitments? Who have I made them to? When am I expecting to meet them? We’re All Connected People talk a lot about “social graphs” these [...]
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Over the past year I’ve been fascinated by the way business interactions and processes weave their way in-between the on-line and off-line worlds. Digital has become the default format for the majority of business data as so much of our interaction and data creation now happens on-line (even if that is mostly via email). That said, it [...]
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Burn-down graphs (or charts) are most often associated with the Scrum methodology increasingly favoured by many software developers (you can get to grips with it in this 10 minute video). They help you to visualise how you are progressing through your work backlog. Very simply put, it shows how quickly are you getting things done, and [...]
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Born on the Fourth of July – well, the week commencing the 4th! If you’ve been into Milestone Planner in the last few days you’ll have noticed a few changes. Most of them have been behind the scenes, in our on-line store, where we’ve completed the move to repeat subscriptions, so you can pay for [...]
Read 'Go Fourth… And Be Updated' >>For sometime we’ve been looking at the next level of planning detail in Milestone Planner: Actions. It’s very deliberately actions and not tasks or to do’s! All of us here have used various to do list tools over the years, and it almost always ends up the same way :- an unfeasibly long list of [...]
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