We may want to start from the basics, why do people work at all? The obvious answer is probably… money. That said, I would argue that there is more to it.

History is full of stories of how little things, if left untended, can eventually bring really big things down in a heap of dust. Like empires. Like civilizations. And yes, like projects, too. And while we’ll leave a discussion of empires and civilizations for another day, we can certainly spend a few minutes here looking at one of the project management world’s most deceptively small threats: progress reporting.

Project managers of a certain vintage may find themselves, as I sometimes do, reflecting on the old days – as in a bygone era when rotary phones ruled the earth, when personal computers were neither very personal nor computed all that much, and when project management software was little more than clunky gaant charts and an extraordinarily annoying animated paperclip offering un-asked for advice.  Ah yes. The good old days.

Do you need to be a certified project manager to get a job in project management? That’s the big question that certified and uncertified, experienced and inexperienced project managers are debating – some of them quite passionately. And we can understand why.

Hi, my name is Uri Tzikoni and I have been working at Clarizen as a product manager for the past 9 months. I started my work in Clarizen right after v5.3 was launched, and felt the adrenalin and the rush around the release of the version. From that point on, I was part of the product team that was responsible for the content of v5.4, and let me tell you, the adrenalin and the rush was there the whole time, all the time.

The way we work has evolved: the mediums through which we communicate have increased in count, improved in quality, and advanced in technology; our processes for recording, reporting, and assessing our work have changed drastically. How we manage our work, therefore, simply cannot remain static and must grow to meet these changes.

In the real world of project management - the one where waterfall diagrams don’t always fall, and critical paths aren’t always critical - I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that issue management skills determine project success as much as anything else. Show me a good project manager, and I’ll show you a good issue manager.

We have highlighted a few important improvements to Clarizen from our latest Hot Fix

We are honored to announce Clarizen has been included in AlwaysOn’s 2012 OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies list for the third straight year.

We all know that, generally speaking, project managers are great people who know what they’re doing. Sure, some score higher on the “nice” and “smart” scale than others, but that’s true of any field.