Catherine Constantinides

Today is International Women’s Day. In honor of this great holiday we have compiled a list of some of the most influential women in product and project management. Check out their great work! 1. Elizabeth Harrin: She is the driving force behind A Girl’s Guide to Project Management, where she dishes up tips and case […]

Organizations have quickly understood the importance of maintaining a strong and continuous social presence online. As a result, a new concept and strategy has emerged:’The Social Command Center’. This idea has spread like wildfire and found its way into many large organizations like Dell, Starbucks, and Gatorade. The idea is to build a social command

Did you know that today is employee appreciation day? Here’s your chance to show your employees their real value in the organization. Employees are excellent sources of new product ideas. The reality is, organizations still fail to source internally generated ideas from them. Building an internal idea capturing process Set up an internal idea capturing

Building project team morale: Lessons from the farm? As the saying goes, “happy cows make great cheese.” This is a concept that can definitely be applied to a project management setting: Happy employees deliver great project results. It’s important for your project team to have high morale- happy employees tend to develop better relationships with

On the OneDesk blog, we deliver and bring you the latest news and eye-catching content related to product innovation, product development and business for project and product professionals looking to gain tips and skills, keep up on trends in the industry and learn something new. From time to time we like to give a shout

Though they have have become an integral part of software development, especially with the growing need to collaborate with geographically dispersed teams, issue tracking tools can be used in other areas which don’t deal with software specific projects. There are, in fact, a number of ways that other types of organizations can benefit from issue

Social Business: All you need is love…and three other things There are many definitions of social business floating around the web, but at the end of the day creating a social business consists of three core elements: Collaboration Communication Integration   Once an organization has a solid understanding of these three elements, how they relate

If you don’t know where to search for them, finding great ideas for a product name can be almost as impossible as looking for a needle in a haystack. The most important thing to remember is that your product name has to fully embody and represent what it is you are trying to sell or

Social media tools must be incorporated into a product development strategy Social media efforts can no longer just be used as a stand-alone strategy. Insight gained from these efforts must be integrated with other business processes such as customer service and help desk, idea management, requirements management, and project management. They must also be visible,

Turning Panic into Process You know the feeling— the knot in your stomach caused by the fear of not getting a report, presentation or project done on time. The ticking of the clock on the wall is so loud, and it is all you can focus on. It seems that no matter how hard and