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Your pals at Journyx are at it again. This time we’re breaking new ground by launching a month-long giveaway campaign called 31 Days of Journyx Twitter Coupons.
This campaign will take place over the month of March and in it we’ll be giving away lots of great things, ranging from Timesheet and ProjectXecute licenses to an Amazon Kindle, an iPod Touch and tickets to the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
You can find out the full details on this crazy, one-of-a-kind social-media-based festival of prizes on our website. But all you really need to know is that following us on Twitter is the key to playing.
“It’s been nearly three hundred years since Ben Franklin admonished a young tradesman to “remember that time is money”, yet many companies still do a poor job of tracking how employees spend their time and the financial consequences are significant.
“No one likes to fill out time sheets,” said Curt Finch, CEO of time management software firm, Journyx and author of the book All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource. “But they are extremely valuable in helping you understand the cost of doing business on a per project or per customer basis, and fixing projects that are broken…” read more
As many of you know, our CEO Curt Finch is the author of All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource. ÊWhat you may not know is that he’s picked up the pen again and is currently working on a second book on how to execute projects on time and on budget.
To that end, he’s looking for project management war stories – the good, the bad and the ugly – and wants to hear from you if you’ve got one. Please e-mail Curt with the following information:
- Number of employees at your company
- Number of employees who work on projects
- Company industry
We look forward to hearing from you!
Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) Ð a leader in developing and operating infrastructure around the world Ð is currently working on the multi-year revitalization project of a major metropolitan airport. PB, together with five other consultant firms, comprises a Construction Management team that manages a number of contractors working as an extension of the city on the airport project. Tracking the time and billing for six different consulting firms in a cohesive manner, with each firm managing multiple contractors and projects, proved to be a difficult task… read more
- In Timesheet, how can I give my users special instructions for logging their time this period?
- In ProjectXecute, how do I give Project Managers access to an entire project plan?
Get the answers to these and other questions in the Journyx Tip Archive.
Project Times published an article predicting the Top Project Management Trends for 2010, and the list is as follows:
It seems as though project management practices (including metrics and tracking) are going to become even more important this year. Perhaps the recession has taught us that you can’t manage what you don’t measure, and that projects that waste money and resource time must be cut in order to maximize profitability.
A new year brings new challenges, and the Professional Services team at Journyx is always standing by to help you meet those challenges head-on. So whether you have a new process that you need to integrate with Timesheet or just need to clean up your installation with a ProUpdate Reconfiguration Package, don’t hesitate to drop us a line. We’re dedicated to working with you to make your installation of Timesheet the most useful, most integrated and most valuable piece of software in your organization.
How rigorously do you track your time and expenses at your business? Even just fifteen minutes here and there that never gets billed to a project or customer because of inefficient systems adds up to a huge chunk of change on an annual basis. Picking and implementing an effective, easy-to-use time and expense tracking system for your company can save tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. The goal of strong time and expense tracking software is to keep 100-percent accurate records of time spent on a project, or on vacation, along with any expenses associated with a project.
When Curt Finch started Journyx in 1996 his goal was to build the best time and project management software solutions possible.
Fourteen years later Journyx provides a state-of-the-art, affordable time and expense tracking solution and a full-featured project management system for keeping complex projects on track. His customers include American Airlines, Sony, and Honda. Though Journyx’s average customer has $55 million in revenues with an average per-employee payroll of $50,000, Finch’s company also serves thousands of companies that have only a few employees… read more
Journyx is pleased to announce a new and improved version of its highly successful project and resource management solution, Journyx ProjectXecute. The solution – which helps companies better allocate scarce resources across projects, track project profitability and provide centralized and dynamic reporting to all organizational levels – now offers work request management, improved views of resource availability and enhanced reporting.
New and Improved Functionality:
- Review and approve work requests with ease
- Know who is available to work on projects
- Report on project status, budget and more
- Integrate ProjectXecute with Microsoft Project via Journyx
Projectlink 5.5
Find out more at the Journyx website.
Have you ever been in the midst of a project or task and thought to yourself, “There has got to be a better way?” If so, you’re not alone. Leading projects is a complicated business. The longer you’re at it the more you can learn and the better you can get.
Here are 72 project management tips designed to help you lead your projects with skill, authority and grace… read more
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