Recently in Productivity Category

On November 3rd, the Project Management Institute's Legal Project Management Community of Practice will host a webinar on how to brainstorm to create a legal-project plan, presented by Mark Lassiter, a partner at Davis Miles PLLC, and Amanda P., Director of Practice Technology at Davis Miles PLLC. Title: "How to Brainstorm to Create a Legal Project Plan"  Format/Location: On-line webinar. Cost: Free to PMI members. PMI membership required. Organizations: PMI Legal Project Management Community of Practice Description: In this session, we will take a hypothetical case from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Dixon v. Providential Life Ins. Co., and...

OLP's Thought Leaders' Guide to E-Discovery, which will be available at the end of October. The OLP guides are a great way to keep on top of the e-discovery industry. They are appropriate for e-discovery novices looking to expand their understanding of the field, as well as for experienced professionals interested in what their peers are thinking about. See my review of the first Guide and buy your copy from the OLP's book store. --> Ed. note 9/1/2011: A slightly revised, edited, and formatted PDF version of this article is now available from the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Knowledge Shelf. It is...

In a recent post to his Lexician blog, Steven Levy reminds us that, just as the map is not the terrain, the artifact is not the project.[1] He points out that: "[t]oo many project managers, bad project managers, don't get this. They see their job as the production of such artifacts. They turn out beautiful Gantt charts, multi-page budget worksheets, process maps, and hundreds of other such museum pieces." Yes, if you work with enough project managers long enough, you'll eventually come across instances where a project manager sits fiddling with his daily dashboard report while the project burns down around him.I've always liked the...

If there is some all-knowing, all-seeing deity out there entering my every step into the Book of Life, I wish said deity would give me access to its pages now and then to assist with my time entry duties. The money I spent, time I labored, and pain I endured in testing, configuring, and managing time-tracking systems should have earned me such a boon. Tracking time is a necessary evil for Legal Project Managers, especially if they are practicing attorneys. Even if you do not bill by the hour, it is still important to track your time to understand how long tasks...

I'm really starting to like Larry Port and his Rocket Matter Blog. I never met Mr. Port, but few company blogs, much less software blogs, keep my interest. Generally, I relegate them to a "software updates" folder in Google Reader, which I glance over in header-only view now and then. But I've noted that, more often then not, I'm opening and reading the Rocket Matter Blog, even though I am not a user of the product. So, today I've added it to my blogroll (a career highlight for Mr. Port, I'm sure).The Rocket Matter Blog is an eclectic mix of software updates, productivity...