How To: Transition from JobTraQ X5 to X6
Our original plan for upgrading JobTraQ (now known as HighGear) X5 customers to X6 and the new visual workflow system was to automatically convert the existing workflow rules into single step processes in the new system. But because each X5 workflow rule was...
Registration Open for 2013 JobTraQ Conference
Swift Software is excited to announce our next JobTraQ customer conference. The conference will be held in Frederick, Maryland on May 7-8, 2013. Attendees will take part in training about JobTraQ administration and configuration, a deep dive into the new visual...
Bridge Out Ahead – Surviving the Committee
It's that sinking feeling ... when your executive sponsor says to you: "Sure Bob, we think getting Task Management Software [or you can replace this with whatever your initiative is] is a great idea! In fact, maybe we could use that all over our company! There may...
Velocity is Victory!
“And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.” ― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity! Velocity is Victory! At first that simple phrase...
Meet Our Team: Mark Porter
Mark Porter started as an intern on the JobTraQ development team and has since grown into one of our key technical leaders. If you haven’t met him in real life yet, this post is a good introduction.
Don’t Let Bad Ideas Win By Default
I read a great quote the other day. It came from my latest issue of InformationWeek magazine. Rob Preston, the editor of the publication has his own article in the back and this week it was on 7 Habits of Innovative IT Leaders. It was a good article, but that’s not...
Those Defining Moments For Project Managers
Our goal as project managers is to be successful in every aspect of our field and on every task of our projects. We never want to miss a milestone, let a deadline pass without delivery, or hand off a less than stellar project deliverable to the customer. We even...
Happy Birthday, HighGear!
The first production JobTraQ task was created on December 3rd, 2001 at 12:26 PM. This means that JobTraQ will be ten years old tomorrow!