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How to Find the Hidden Stakeholders in Your Project

It’s every project manager’s worst nightmare: a stakeholder magically appears at the end of the project and makes your life miserable.

Here are a few examples:

The project stalls at production because the IT team won’t install software that doesn’t meet the security requirements on their servers.
The great new product is not being used because the end-users feel it is too complicated and don’t need it anyway.
At delivery, the client refuses the product because it doesn’t meet an industry standard they forgot to inform you about.

Is any of this familiar? In any project, you’ll have visible and hidden stakeholders.

Visible stakeholders are easy to manage: they are vocal and will make their opinions known on their own. Even if they oppose your project, they can be monitored and, in time, convinced that your project is good.

Hidden stakeholders, however, are very dangerous. They won’t speak up. Sometimes, they are forgotten by the project team. As Murphy will have it, this stakeholder will appear in your project at the […]

By Daniel Raymond|2023-12-14T11:45:48-05:002023-12-14|

Project Management and Firefighting

Most bloggers won’t admit to how they often find inspiration for their posts in other blogs and tweets. Anywho, I found my inspiration for today’s post from this Tweet: “Why do so many professionals say they are project managing, when what they are doing is fire fighting? – Colin Bentley” from Greg Cimmarrusti, PMP

Firefighting is a management style not only used by project managers. When people spend all their time putting out fires, they look swamped and have a great sense of purpose.

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Why so much firefighting?

It’s a vicious circle. It’s difficult to think long-term […]

By Daniel Raymond|2023-12-13T15:28:07-05:002023-12-13|

Introducing our New Website (Press Release)

Websystems, Inc. is proud to introduce a new website for its web-based project management software, AceProject.

By Daniel Raymond|2010-11-01T13:15:08-04:002010-11-01|

Switching Back to Standard Time

AceProject will switch clocks back to Standard Time on Sunday November 7th, 2010.

By Daniel Raymond|2010-10-29T13:00:21-04:002010-10-29|

Version 2010.10.28 – Actual Date Fields Added to Task Reports

With the addition of the “Actual Start Date” and “Actual End Date” fields in version 4.8, we had to make these fields available in task reports.

From now on, these date fields will be available in the following reports, at both the project and project portfolio levels:

Task Report by Date: Both fields have been added to the date drop-down filters and show up next to the “Estimated End Date” column in the report.
Overview Task Report: Both fields show up next to the “Estimated End Date” column in the report.
Non-Assigned Task Report: Both fields show up next to the “Estimated End Date” column in the report.

By Daniel Raymond|2010-10-28T13:00:23-04:002010-10-28|

Task Reminder vs Actual Dates

When using the task reminder, only the estimated dates are taken into account.

By Daniel Raymond|2010-10-21T10:24:26-04:002010-10-21|

New and Existing Subscribers, Welcome to Version 4.8!

The time has finally come to cut the ribbon! Here it is, version 4.8 is out!

By Daniel Raymond|2010-09-28T13:00:58-04:002010-09-28|

Version 2010.09.27 – Predefined % Done

We are glad to introduce a new field at the project level called “Predefined % Done”. Essentially, this will empower project managers to set a default % Done value to any “In Progress” task status.

By Daniel Raymond|2010-09-27T13:00:29-04:002010-09-27|

Version 2010.09.15 – Show/Hide Columns Updates

Since we added expense tracking to AceProject 4.8, we had to make the new fields available in task lists. From now on, you’ll be able to add the “Estimated Expenses”, “Actual Expenses”, and “My Actual Expenses” fields to the “Show/Hide Columns” option in the “My Tasks”, “Incomplete Tasks” and “Completed Tasks” pages. We also added the “Actual Start Date” and “Actual End Date” fields to the “Show/Hide Columns” option.

Furthermore, we renamed the following fields:

Estimated ->Estimated Hours
Actuals ->Actual Hours
Due-Date ->End Date
Start Date ->Estimated Start Date
End Date ->Estimated End Date

Feel free to contact us should you have any inquiries with regards to this update.

By Daniel Raymond|2010-09-17T13:55:45-04:002010-09-17|

We’ve Upgraded 100 Accounts to Version 4.8 today

We are glad to announce that another group of users now benefits of AceProject’s new version today. The migration is running smoothly. We are really proud of this version, which has been several months in the making.

All remaining accounts that are still on version 4.7 will be migrated to version 4.8 in early October 2010.

Here are the release notes for version 4.8 :
Expense Tracking – After years of requests for this, here it is! You can now submit and approve expenses, as well as generate reports. The expense tracking module works as does the time tracking module. Hence, you’ll be up and running with these functionalities in no time. This feature can be disabled at the account level. Hence, if you don’t want to track expenses, the interface will not make any mention of expenses whatsoever.

Weekend Management – We offer more flexibility with regards to how work weeks are managed. You can now indicate whether weekends are working days or not at the task level. Furthermore, if you use task dependencies and […]

By Daniel Raymond|2010-09-08T17:39:10-04:002010-09-08|