by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 2, 2012 | Milestone Planner
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | Feb 20, 2012 | Management, Milestone Planner
Hands up if you feel that things in your business are changing faster than they used to? Are priorities constantly changing? Do you find yourself reacting to customer issues which seem to blow up from nowhere? Do you feel you are working for more than one...
by Benjamin Ellis | Feb 16, 2012 | Milestone Planner, Productivity
To-Do lists are on our minds in the office at the moment. We’re constantly debating the pros and cons of them, and what makes them work and what makes them fail as task management tools. Yes, we’re thinking about new features for Milestone Planner. A...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 6, 2012 | Leadership, Milestone Planner
Prompted by lifehacker’s call for the best goal tracking app or service, I thought now was a good moment to share how I use Milestone Planner to track (and more importantly, achieve) my personal goals. In last year’s (still popular) blog post on...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 14, 2011 | Management
A conversation at the recent Dell B2B event at Google’s UK HQ, and a subsequent blog post, have finally prompted me into writing down some of my thoughts around the current trend of scoring influence, and the related social metrics industry that is being birthed...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 9, 2011 | On the road
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 1, 2011 | Knowledge Work
I had the privilege of speaking at The Social Media Workplace conference in London today. A well organised, wonderfully targeted event, looking at how Social Software can build the Social Workplace. Lots of conversations about how’s and why’s, without...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 21, 2011 | Event, planning
It’s been a year since I gave this talk at Likeminds, so I thought it was about time I published my notes! Enjoy, ponder or comment. This is part I. I’ll sum up and add by 2011 thoughts in the very next post… Image by kind permission of James...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 11, 2011 | Event, On the road
Benjamin Ellis & I spent Saturday at Tweetcamp. For those not in the know, Tweetcamp is an unconference all about Twitter, its uses and its implications. Around two hundred people spent the day talking about a wide range of subjects, from Real Time News to...
by Benjamin Ellis | Aug 12, 2011 | Milestone Planner, Project Management
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | Aug 9, 2011 | Leadership, Management, Milestone Planner, planning, Project Management
You’ve made plans, got people on board and kicked off your project.. but as the focus turns to delivery, how do you keep the momentum going? We’ve found that much of the trick of successful project management is helping people to make clear commitments,...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 20, 2011 | Milestone Planner
Today we’ve released some new – and hopefully useful – additions to Milestone Planner. Switching Plans is now easier. You’ll see an ‘Active Plans’ Tab at the top of the page. Clicking on this will pull down a list of all of your...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 12, 2011 | Milestone Planner
It has been a frequently asked for feature, and now you’ve got it… You can sync Milestone Planner milestones into Google Calendar, using the calendar feeds. This is a Professional Edition feature, but if you’d like to give it a try, just send us a...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 8, 2011 | Milestone Planner
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 15, 2011 | On the road
There is a huge interest in tablet devices in the enterprise space, and that is certainly apparent here at the Orange Business Services Live event. I’ve blogged about Tablets in the Enterprise before, more than once in fact! If you have been following the space,...