Clarizen

Why work at Clarizen?

Uri Tzikoni — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:36:00 +0000

We may want to start from the basics, why do people work at all? The obvious answer is probably… money. That said, I would argue that there is more to it.

Why is Project Management Progress Reporting so Tedious?

Debbie Cohen-Abravanel — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:29:08 +0000

History is full of stories of how little things, if left untended, can eventually bring really big things down in a heap of dust. Like empires. Like civilizations. And yes, like projects, too. And while we’ll leave a discussion of empires and civilizations for another day, we can certainly spend a few minutes here looking at one of the project management world’s most deceptively small threats: progress reporting.

7 Advantages of Online Project Management Software

Debbie Cohen-Abravanel — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:55:14 +0000

Project managers of a certain vintage may find themselves, as I sometimes do, reflecting on the old days – as in a bygone era when rotary phones ruled the earth, when personal computers were neither very personal nor computed all that much, and when project management software was little more than clunky gaant charts and an extraordinarily annoying animated paperclip offering un-asked for advice. Ah yes. The good old days.

PMP Certfication and Project Management Jobs

Debbie Cohen-Abravanel — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:22:00 +0000

Do you need to be a certified project manager to get a job in project management? That’s the big question that certified and uncertified, experienced and inexperienced project managers are debating – some of them quite passionately. And we can understand why.

Clarizen v5.4 - Accelerate

Uri Tzikoni — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:06:00 +0000

Hi, my name is Uri Tzikoni and I have been working at Clarizen as a product manager for the past 9 months. I started my work in Clarizen right after v5.3 was launched, and felt the adrenalin and the rush around the release of the version. From that point on, I was part of the product team that was responsible for the content of v5.4, and let me tell you, the adrenalin and the rush was there the whole time, all the time.

Clarizen Brings Mobility

Avinoam Nowogrodski — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:32:40 +0000

The way we work has evolved: the mediums through which we communicate have increased in count, improved in quality, and advanced in technology; our processes for recording, reporting, and assessing our work have changed drastically. How we manage our work, therefore, simply cannot remain static and must grow to meet these changes.

Project Management Issue Tracking

Debbie Cohen-Abravanel — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:26:35 +0000

In the real world of project management - the one where waterfall diagrams don’t always fall, and critical paths aren’t always critical - I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that issue management skills determine project success as much as anything else. Show me a good project manager, and I’ll show you a good issue manager.

Improvement Release Name: V5.3 HF24

Kiana Araghi — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:13:00 +0000

We have highlighted a few important improvements to Clarizen from our latest Hot Fix

Clarizen OnDemand 100

Michele Borovac — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:21:00 +0000

We are honored to announce Clarizen has been included in AlwaysOn’s 2012 OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies list for the third straight year.

Top 3 Reasons why projects fail

Debbie Cohen-Abravanel — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:10:00 +0000

We all know that, generally speaking, project managers are great people who know what they’re doing. Sure, some score higher on the “nice” and “smart” scale than others, but that’s true of any field.

The Project Management Life Cycle and the Project Management Cycle

Debbie Cohen-Abravanel — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:46:00 +0000

While project management often serves to make things simpler and therefore more achievable, we must admit that there are times when the opposite occurs. That is, instead of clarity, we end up with confusion. And perhaps there’s no greater example of this than the misunderstanding between the project management life cycle, and the project life cycle.

Scrum, Kanban, Lean or Waterfall… or maybe a combination??

Ariel Utnik — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:24:00 +0000

Many organizations aspire to adopt agile processes such as Scrum, Kanban and even a combination like Scrumban to take advantage of the numerous benefits that they offer to an organization. Those benefits include, but are not limited to, quicker return on investment, better software quality, and higher customer satisfaction.

As part of this shift, organizations are also changing the way they work, redefining teams, work processes, and tools used to manage the work.

The Great Project Management Certification Debate

Debbie Cohen-Abravanel — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:20:00 +0000

The GREAT DEBATE is upon us.

The question “What is the Best Project Management Certificate?” evokes some pretty passionate responses in the project management community – with some experts claiming that project management certification, itself, is all a load of nonsense.

Improvement Release Name: V5.3 HF18 and V5.3 HF19

Kiana Araghi — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:11:00 +0000

Clarizen has recently released two important Hot Fixes and we wanted to bring your attention to three important features as requested by Clarizen users:

BR Function to Get an Object Based on one of its Field's Values
Business Rule Runtime Errors Generated Emails will Include the Triggering User
Determine Manager when Creating a New Project from Template

This Just In: Project Planning is NOT a Project Management Step

Rami Cohen — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:31:00 +0000

There are bunch of things that make project management tougher, riskier and (much) more stressful than it needs to be. I have a mental list of things that I could happily live without. Doubtless, you have one, too. Chances are that our lists are strikingly similar.

Improvement Release Name: V5.3 HF17

Kiana Araghi — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:00:42 +0000

Release Date: February 15, 2012

Clarizen’s latest Hot Fix was released recently and we wanted to bring your attention to two outstanding features that were requested by our users:

7 Tips for Running Effective Project Management Meetings in the Cloud

Rami Cohen — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:09:33 +0000

Useless meetings, as we all know, are the bane of the project manager’s existence.

In fact, at this moment, a fellow project manager, somewhere in the world, is being subjected to yet another useless meeting. She is checking Facebook, falling asleep, counting the ceiling fixtures (for the 10th time), wondering exactly why paper beats rock in the “rock, paper, scissors” game, weighing the merits of getting up and running out of the room while uttering a primal scream for the ages, or wistfully wondering why he didn’t follow his true career passion: playing the flute for tourists in some tropical paradise.

Hate status meetings? You're not alone.

Hilee Avrahami — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:03:00 +0000

See 5 ways to make status meetings more productive (Infographic).

Clarizen Improvement Blog: V5.3 HF16

Kiana Araghi — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:40:00 +0000

Improvement Release Name: V5.3 HF16

Release Date: February 8, 2012

Two important features as requested by Clarizen users:

1. Support Meeting Implementation and Not Full Day Event in iCal

2. Invoice Filter for Project Summary Standard Time Tracking Report

The Top 3 2012 Resolutions that Project Managers DON'T Need to Make

Rami Cohen — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:21:00 +0000

Now that we’re starting a new year, there’s no shortage of advice on what project managers should resolve to do in 2012. In fact, there’s a surplus of it. It’s everywhere.