Part 1: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow…

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion“, says Parkinson's law (C. Northcote Parkinson, 1955).

Everyone knows cases in which this doctrine applies to project management. At the beginning of a project, there is plenty of buffer time for all the project stages, so that the project team doesn’t fall behind and is able to deliver results to the customer in time. Towards the end of the project, things tend to get really stressful and meeting the project objectives is jeopardized. There are loads of projects which are finished far behind schedule.

Architects, corporate consultants or the field sales force are no longer the only ones to work on projects from changing locations. Mobility has become an important factor in all kinds of industries. Team members shuttle between projects and company sites and are part of distributed project teams.

While they are away on business, permanent callbacks at the office or the exchange of information via e-mail are cumbersome and error-prone. So, mobile team members often miss out on the change of a deadline or a contact person or on a new work package.

These are the team members we have developed our InLoox Mobile Apps for, which are now available for download.

The second part to our mini series on the Gantt chart (click here for part 1) deals with the advantages and the disadvantages of bar charts and clever ways to use them.

You get more than 2.2 million results by entering “Gantt chart“ in Google. The bar chart that is widely used in project management has been pronounced dead ever so often, but still seems to be highly relevant.

You get more than 2.2 million results by entering “Gantt chart“ in Google. The bar chart that is widely used in project management has been pronounced dead ever so often, but still seems to be highly relevant.

For everyone who wants to equip large project teams or entire companies with InLoox PM, there is now a new type of license: The InLoox PM Corporate License. With this, you can provide all project team members in your company with InLoox PM.

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The critical path is one of the classic instruments in project management and an excellent tool for project time planning. However, project management students and even experienced project managers often have difficulties explaining what the critical path really is. Our 5 questions on the critical path will help you to gain a better understanding:

The project is finally done and even the last work package is completed. After weeks of hard work, the team is looking forward to its well-deserved vacation or new tasks. Most of them are happy to leave the project behind after a stressful final project stage. No wonder that motivation for a formal project completion is low at that point. But if the customer demands improvements at a time when the team is already scattered to the four winds, a sloppy project completion will take its toll.

The international training provider Berlitz is our 2,500^th customer. More than 35,000 users in over 2,500 companies in more than 40 countries on five continents use InLoox PM software products.

InLoox PM 7.5 for Outlook has been released. The update fully integrates with Microsoft Outlook, just like previous versions. The software for professional and efficient project management is now not only available as server/desktop installation, but also as SaaS solution in the Cloud and features a multitude of innovations and improvements.

From March 5 to 9, you can discover the InLoox products at this year's CeBIT - the leading high tech trade fair - in Hanover.