David Robins, Author at Collaboration Corner

Latest release includes burndown chart

This morning we released the laster version of our project management application. In this release all projects have burndown chart. As you might know one of the best tools to track the…

David Robins November 11, 2012

Management Project management

Stop Micromanaging and Learn to Delegate

You've gotten feedback from your manager as well as word of rumblings within your team: You're seen as a micromanager who tends to get into the weeds — and stay…

David Robins November 5, 2012

Project management

Beauty of Three Simple Management Practices

Are you among the 79%? In our research into more than 8,000 companies in 20 countries, 79% of organizations reported that their management practices were above average. That should have…

David Robins October 31, 2012

Privacy Security

Binfire never shares or sells its user's information

A few users have asked us what is our policy regarding safeguarding the user information we keep in our project management application, especially names and emails. It is very simple, we…

David Robins October 29, 2012

Collaboration collaborative project management

How Successful remote Teams Collaborate

Recently I read a great article in Harvard Business Review about remote teams written by Keith Ferrazzi. If you are interested you can read the whole article here. So how remote teams…

David Robins October 28, 2012

Collaboration Project management

Why Binfire

For the past 2 years our team has worked hard to bring the best online project management and collaboration application to our users. We are a small engineering team working…

David Robins October 14, 2012

Project management

Using WBS in Agile

Agile projects do have a WBS. However, differences in perspective and terminology can cause confusion between project managers familiar with a WBS for a System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) based…

David Robins October 4, 2012

Project management virtual teams

How to run a 100% virtual company

Given all the attention on telecommuting and virtual operations, you would think there was now a huge roster of companies running entirely “in the cloud, virtual team ” if you…

David Robins October 2, 2012

Collaboration Project management

Latest release- Project Management app for distributed teams

I am happy to let you know we just released the latest version of binfire.com. In this release all pages and files are 256 bit encrypted (same encryption as most…

David Robins September 23, 2012

Project management

Physical distance is not the same as virtual distance

A number of years ago, I worked on an executive team in which everyone was located in the same building but people seemed frustratingly far apart. Yet at my first…

David Robins September 23, 2012