Last October, a few months after Ken Winell had joined Tough Mudder as vice president of technology, he found himself wading through the mud, risking electrical shock and pulling himself over walls in what has become the company’s wildly popular signature extreme obstacle course. Some projects may feel just as extreme to their participants. Winell…

In Part 1 of this two-part article, I shared some uses for Twitter in helping to manage your projects. This time we look at a few other tools that I’ve found helpful. Facebook in Project Management There are a few reasons why Facebook can become an important part of your team’s project management style. Learn…

There is more to ensuring the success of a project than collecting actuals and checking for resource overallocations. Putting faces on the people assigned to the tasks in your project is often forgotten in the maze of software functionality. Tweeting, facebooking, blogging, and the rest may seem like unbillable downtime — even if the subject…