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Eileen O'Loughlin

Eileen O’Loughlin is a Senior Project Management Analyst for Capterra. Her research helps small businesses leverage the latest technology and trends to solve key business challenges and achieve strategic goals. Her work has been cited in various publications, including CIO.com, ProjectManagement.com, ProjectsAtWork and DevOps Digest.

Published March 13, 2020
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If you’re a project manager, it’s not a question of if but when you’ll be asked to manage a remote team. In fact, if you’re reading this and you haven’t yet led a remote team, I’d like to hear your story. Do you work on an Antarctic oil rig? Are you a time traveler from the 1950s?
Published February 14, 2020
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Which comes first, the business case for project management (PM) technology or the budget? It’s a tricky question. Technically, you need approval for your business case before you can secure funding for the investment. However, you need to know at a high level how much your PM tech investment will cost in order to create the business case.
Published February 5, 2020
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Finding the right project management software can be especially difficult for Agile teams. Do you choose a general purpose tool that is a pretty good fit for most workflows? Or do you choose software designed to support Agile workflows specifically?
Published January 6, 2020
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Here’s the simple truth: No project goes off without a hitch. And when you’re managing multiple projects at once, there’s going to be multiple hitches.
Published December 16, 2019
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Our industry is no stranger to change, but that can make it difficult to stay on top of important project management news and articles. Don’t worry, we've got you! Here’s what you need to know this week:
Published December 13, 2019
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A leadership style is how you approach, manage, and support a team. It's the role you play in helping them achieve a specific goal—what you're focused on, the degree of your involvement/engagement, and how you respond to different stimuli.
Published October 25, 2019
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At its most basic level, project collaboration is when two or more people work together to achieve a common goal. It seems simple enough, right? In theory, yes; in execution, it almost never is. Why is that, though? You'd think after years of working in teams at school and at work, we'd all be aces at collaboration. So what's the deal?
Published October 18, 2019
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In our last article, we broke down the difference between “projects" and nonroutine “work,"—e.g., daily tasks, collaborating with coworkers, low effort and/or low-risk ad hoc requests, etc.—noting that while this type of work doesn't require the rigor of formal project management, it still needs to be managed.
Published October 17, 2019
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Microsoft Visio is a well-known flowchart and diagramming software that's highly rated by users. With over 1,400 reviews on Capterra's software directory, it's actually the most-reviewed diagram software on our site and has earned a 4.5 out of 5 star overall rating.
Published October 3, 2019
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I feel your pain: You've outgrown spreadsheets, and you're tired of trying to collaborate over email. You turned to Google to search for an automated tool to help, but, instead of finding a solution, you encountered pages and pages of lists of products marketed as project management software, all varying wildly in functionality and price.
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