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S5E121: Turn your Schedule into an Effective Communication Tool with Bojan Tasevski

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S5E121

S5E121: Turn your Schedule into an Effective Communication Tool with Bojan Tasevski

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In this week’s pod, we were joined by Bojan Tasevski to discuss how to turn your schedule into effective communication and delivery tools.For over 12 years, Bojan Tasevski has been a noteworthy leader in the project management technology space, primarily focusing on creating software products that ease the life of project teams of all sizes. Many people may know him as the Managing Director of Synami, the company behind Seavus Project Viewer, ScheduleReader, and ScheduleCleaner software products. The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows: www.projectchatterpodcast.com If you'd like to sponsor the podcast get in touch via our website. You can also leave us a voice message via our anchor page and let us know if there's something or someone specific that you would like on the podcast. Proudly sponsored by: https://www.justdo.com/ https://www.planacademy.com/chatter/ ($75 off any course) https://ineight.com/ https://empower.prosci.com/project-ch... (FREE resource kit)

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Bojan Tasevski

Bojan Tasevski

Managing Director at Synami

For over 12 years, Bojan Tasevski has been a noteworthy leader in the project management technology space, primarily focusing on creating software products that ease the life of project teams of all sizes. Many people may know him as the Managing Director of Synami, the company behind Seavus Project Viewer, ScheduleReader, and ScheduleCleaner software products.

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