Jan 31, 2008
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Thank you to all the great people in California who welcomed me to their companies this week. It was a real pleasure. From San Diego to Sacramento I visited Vertabase users across this vast and exciting state.
We appreciate your business and I look forward to seeing everyone again.
Jan 16, 2008
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Question: What are alternatives for issue tracking or to track issues on projects?
Answer: Vertabase project management software is a great alternative to commonly used collaboration tools or as an alternative to MS Project and other online project management tools.
The keys to good issue tracking are accountability, communication, and visibility. Vertabase offers several advantages in these areas for web-based tracking.
The knowledgebase is searchable by project, issue status, post date and other criteria. This facilitates visibility and is great for increasing accountability.
You can easily see the status of all issue posts across projects as well as track down who should be doing what.
Another factor that makes issue tracking practical for organizations with different people working on different projects for multiple clients is the ability very specifically define who can see an issue, who can start and issue and who is able to change the status of an issue. This can help prevent people from “closing” something that hasn’t truly been resolved yet.
You can see a screenshot of the online issue tracking system or sign-up for a free trial of the project software.
Jan 9, 2008
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Vertabase project management software is now being taught in an MBA course on project management at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Illinois.
The software is used in the course: “Successful Projects: Define, Plan and Manager Your Work.”
Vertabase is discussed when the course goes over setting up Microsoft Project and using Vertabase as a compliment and comparison to MS Project.
It is further covered when the future MBA’s learn about controlling and managing multiple projects -using Vertabase. Since it is rare that an organization, and therefore a manager, will only have one project going on at a time.
Thank you to the course instructor for selecting Vertabase as the online project management software for this class.
Jan 9, 2008
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It was a pleasure meeting everyone and speaking to the Mid-Michigan ColdFusion Users Group about software development, web design and project management software.
The meeting was held at Michigan State University’s beautiful new facilities.
Thank you for having me and thank you to Rick Mason for putting it together.
Nick Kwiatkowski from the Michigan Flex Users Group was also there. They’ve got a great Flex 3 and AIR program coming up on February 6th. Kevin Hoyt, one of Adobe’s Platform Evanglists will be there as part of the Flex 3 and AIR pre-release tour.
Be sure to check it out.
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