Project Management

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  ComputerWorld: Project Management

• Opinion: When projects reach the ungrounded middle

  18 Jan 2010 | 3:00 am

  Paul Glen thinks the middle of projects is when trouble can really strike, and not enough managers are prepared for that.

• The Future of IT Project Management Software

  6 Jan 2010 | 1:31 pm

  Today's information technology organizations are responding to the most treacherous recession in memory. Their actions range from classic belt-tightening to innovating and improving value-added services in their organizations. A primary value-adding strategy for the most effective organizations is to further improve project management.

• Budget tips for the new year

  29 Dec 2009 | 3:00 am

  IT budgets in 2010 will look a lot like 2009's. CIO strategies for getting the biggest bang for the same amount of bucks include everything from further streamlining and consolidating the IT infrastructure to plugging in iPhones, Google Apps and netbooks.

• Innovative tech projects won't slow down for some

  29 Dec 2009 | 3:00 am

  Despite tight IT budgets and a gloomy economic outlook, most companies aren't hesitating to invest in emerging technologies. Computerworld examines the types of budding technologies that organizations are testing and how IT leaders are able to persuade other decision-makers to take the plunge.

• Opinion: The long and winding road of governance shortcuts

  21 Dec 2009 | 9:16 am

  When business units circumvent governance in order to fast-track projects, the result is almost always a major slowdown.

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  Project Shrink Blog

• Trusting People You Don’t Know

  Bas de Baar

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:52 am

  This a very early draft of a chapter from “Tags: Living In A Virtual World“. I use this blog as a notebook for drafts, so you can provide me with feedback in an early stage. Comments are, as always, appreciated. I have more faith in a friendly clean-cut doctor in a white coat, than one in a jeans with anti-social behavior. Although. For anyone remembering Dougie Howser, MD, the 1990 television series that starred a teen aged child as clean-cut white coat doctor, I would not want him to be my physician. I would prefer House, the grumpy but brilliant doctor, who “doesn’t…

• Tags: Sociology In A Virtual World

  Bas de Baar

  4 Feb 2010 | 2:01 pm

  This a very early draft of the introduction to Tags: Living In A Virtual World. I use this blog as a notebook for drafts, so you can provide me with feedback in an early stage. Comments are, as always, appreciated. If you are a Project Manager that operates for a short period of time in a foreign organization, with a team you don’t know, in a domain you would not know how to spell, I would say you have some challenges. Think about this Project Manager as a person in a huge network of interacting people. The PM can interact only with a few of them (his team, the stakeholders). The…

• About My Big Important Words.

  Bas de Baar

  3 Feb 2010 | 6:10 am

  I started this year explaining why I like the word “awesome”. “I like to use the word “awesome” instead of “felicitous” as I like to appeal more to people who like passionate words over expensive sounding ones.” Couple of days later, I tell you “Although writing in a style that sounds authoritative (“You must do this!”) attracts a larger audience, providing advice that respects the comfort zone of the other is more effective in real life.” So. True. And than. In my previous posting I go all “Reputation Space / Project Space” on you.

• This Is Not A Story About Social Media.

  Bas de Baar

  30 Jan 2010 | 8:08 am

  This is not a story about social media. This is a story about verification. When I tell you that social media has a purpose for Project Managers, you basically have to trust me on this. I try to make a compelling case. I provide you argumentation that makes the case plausible. Or fail at it, for that matter. I provide you with my profile. I make video to make a deeper “connect”. I use some personal branding. I use my associations with professional organizations. I use the fact that I am a practitioner. I use the fact that I have a long history of writing on the web. I use the fact…

• Using Information From The Reputation Space In The Project Space

  Bas de Baar

  29 Jan 2010 | 1:28 am

  We all have Googled someone. Put his name into the Google search box and hit enter. Just before a meeting. After we have received a mail. See what information we can find about this person. We can use this information to build up a mental image of this person. Build up context. Guess his frame of reference. Determine what this person is about. When we meet this person in a face to face conversation, we use the information we found in his digital footprint. If we like it or not, we interpret messages in the context we have build up. In here lies our challenge. We have to make use of the…

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  Pawel Brodzinski

• Who Cares If You Are Agile?

  Pawel Brodzinski

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:05 pm

  Let’s play a small role-playing game. You are the vendor and I am the client. I exactly know what I want to buy. Sort of actually. OK, we may have to face some course changes as we hit the road. Anyway, I know what I want, okay? At the moment I’m going to decide how your offer is best of breed because it surely is. So you tell me how great all the projects I can find in your portfolio were. You boast how enthusiastic reactions of your other customers were. And we both know that’s complete bullshit. Oh, maybe it isn’t but you wouldn’t tell me if things looked different anyway. You…

• Project Management Failure Stories: I Want Them All

  Pawel Brodzinski

  3 Feb 2010 | 10:17 am

  Once upon a time there was a project. It was rather small and, to some point, not very important. Bob the Young Manager has chosen one of the specialists to run this project. You know, all this boring stuff like reading specs, splitting the work to small chunks, telling how much resources he needs and organizing the work. Mike who was asked to do the job agreed willingly. At least something appropriate for his ambitions. For more than two months no one asked Mike how things going and by this time Mike was all stressed since he was more than sure he’s not going to meet the deadline. Finally…

• Project Management Failure Stories

  Pawel Brodzinski

  3 Feb 2010 | 10:16 am

  We oh so often write about ideal world. How things should look like. How projects should be managed. How teams should be led. And then we come back to our desk and things around still suck, projects fail and teams have clueless managers instead of leaders. How come? When I hear all these stories about crappy project management I can even justify why they’re failing. The thing which I don’t understand is why no one even tries to change their doomed course? This series is done under the patronage of my wife who strongly embraced the “Failure Stories” name as well as gave me a lot of…

• The Kanban Story: Kanban Board Revisited

  Pawel Brodzinski

  1 Feb 2010 | 10:39 am

  Kanban doesn’t prescribe much – if you follow The Kanban Story you already know that. Kanban Board which is a key tool in Kanban isn’t pre-designed or something. You need to tailor your own. That’s how we did with our Kanban Board. We decided to start with something simple and then adjust things as we go. We redesigned Kanban Board because it is meant to be changed. But even then it wasn’t the final shape. When we left the board last time it looked like that. What was the problem? On a general level we switched to more frequent deployments. At the beginning we didn’t have any…

• Fighting with Status Quo

  Pawel Brodzinski

  29 Jan 2010 | 9:16 am

  Last time I wrote about status quo and how it becomes protected value within companies. I could tell you countless stories of people being (mentally) hurt by status quo. I could tell barely a few of these when status quo was defeated. How to fight with status quo then? A short answer is: change rules of the game. Until new status quo emerges everything will be different. To elaborate a bit more, status quo is painful in terms of lost opportunities. Every time some talented and eager engineer hits the glass ceiling or a poor candidate is promoted over a good one or suboptimal organization is…

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  ComputerWeekly: Project Management

• IT must target specific needs to tap into government spending, says IDC

  5 Feb 2010 | 8:06 am

  European government IT spending is set to increase in the next three years, but suppliers will have to meet specific needs if they are to cash in, says IDC. Government...

• The recession may be over, but is the IT job seeker's struggle?

  5 Feb 2010 | 4:18 am

  The recession is over and opportunities for IT professionals are on the up, but has the latest economic crisis left an indelible mark on the profession?

• Will caps on IT immigration just win votes or create a successful compromise?

  4 Feb 2010 | 8:08 am

  Will caps on IT immigration just win votes or create a workable compromise? If elected, the Conservatives will make changes to the current migration system by putting limits on the number of workers permitted to enter the UK on Intra Company Transfers (ICT).

• Court orders HP to pay BSkyB £200m within 14 days

  3 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  A High Court judge this afternoon ordered HP to pay BSkyB interim damages of £200m within 14 days.

• IT sector to grow four times faster than average UK workforce over 10 years

  3 Feb 2010 | 6:25 am

  The technology workforce is set to grow four times faster than the rest of the UK's employment sectors over the next 10 years, according to IT sector...

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  Project Smart

• What Makes a Successful Project Manager?

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:41 am

  Over the past few days, I've been writing about some of the characteristics that make a great project manager. I don't think anyone disagrees that delivering projects on-time, on budget, and on spec are important. I certainly think they are. That being said, I was thumbing through some old notes last night and found these six leadership attributes. I'm not sure where I stumbled across them originally, but they are leadership skills that can take a good project manager and make them great.

• The Hidden Costs and Dangers of the Shortcut

  5 Feb 2010 | 12:21 pm

  We live in a world where we are often pressured to take shortcuts to save time and cut costs as much as possible. However, if you're not a skilled and experienced project manager, the wrong shortcut could end up costing you a lot more. Here's an anecdote to think about.

• Why Scheduling Mustn't be Allowed to Become an Extinct Science

  31 Jan 2010 | 2:55 am

  After spending the past decade or more dedicated to project management, I noticed during the economic downturn last year a very surprising trend: despite the significant reduction in the number of major Capex projects being sanctioned and funded, the need for third party assistance with schedule analysis and risk assessments actually increased dramatically. After digging into this a little more deeply, I came to the following conclusion: savvy project schedulers are at risk of becoming a dying breed and as project management specialists, we need to do everything we can to reverse this trend.

• Project Risk: Is It All Bad?

  30 Jan 2010 | 9:15 am

  No one would disagree that managing risk within a project is not a good idea. Risk Management is an essential part of any programme or project and can vastly contribute to successful delivery. Where it can and does go wrong is when there is an over-reliance on the risk aspects of the project and they in themselves start driving the way the project moves forward. The management of risk is part and parcel of project management, but is not the be all and end all of it as it sometimes becomes in more risk averse organisational cultures.

• Is an Agile PMO Possible?

  29 Jan 2010 | 12:09 pm

  It often seems that a lean, agile development environment will always be at odds with the structure and constraints of the PMO. However, the agile PMO can bridge the gap between PMBOK process flows and CMM best practices and help organisations to carry out projects more successfully. While it does require a bit of change management, it is not as impossible as it seems and the benefits far outweigh the effort.

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  Reforming Project Management

• What Is Going on with Toyota

  Hal

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:38 pm

• Friction-Free Collaboration

  Hal

  10 Oct 2009 | 1:34 pm

  Image via CrunchBase I've just arrived at the PMI Global Congress 2009 in Orlando, FL. Tomorrow AM a number of us who are members of the PMI New Media Council will be speaking in a panel on social media and its impacts on the discipline of project management. Among other things, I'll be talking about my company's experience using Yammer. Our experience has been good. More on that later. It's great seeing a smiling colleague's faceOur company works with architects, engineers and construction firms along with the clients of those firms. We're a small consultancy…just 12 people all working…

• Lean Projects Are Defined by Lean Behaviors

  Hal

  18 Aug 2009 | 7:19 pm

  Image via Wikipedia Ifollow numerous blogs, news groups and twitter posts on lean. I've noticed a change in the last few months from talking about lean tools to talking about lean behaviors. It's a refreshing change. Toyota made a shift early this century in the way they spoke about their approach. In essence, they started speaking about the Toyota Way vs. the Toyota Production System. Under the TPS, the two pillars were Just-in-Time production and Jidoka (autonomation). Now they speak about the two pillars of continuous improvement and respect for people. It's a shift from tools to tool…

• Use Near-Misses to Learn about Construction Safety

  Hal

  18 Jun 2009 | 7:52 pm

  Image by Elliot Moore via Flickr Ihaven't written about construction safety in awhile. I used to write about it every Thursday. I just read an ENR editorial Analyzing Near-Misses Is Key to An Effective Safety Plan. It reminded me of how far we need to go in construction. Our industry kills about 1300 people in the US every year. Thousands of others are seriously injured. Yet, there are far more dangerous industries where people are not getting hurt at anywheres near the construction rates. Alcoa has made amazing strides to create an injuring-free workplace in their smelters. Dupont's chemical…

• Time to Re-Th!nk Improvement

  Hal

  15 Jun 2009 | 1:10 pm

  So much of our attention in the lean community is on continuous improvement. Normally that is interpreted as "process improvement". In the project world processes are often incidental to the work we are doing to fulfill the promise of the project. In other words, the value stream goes through a series of tasks like writing software code, documenting a feature, refactoring, etc., none of which follow a repeatable step-by-step process. Architecture and construction projects are similar. The process stuff is supporting the value stream. When we make so-called improvements to process we are…

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  The Tao of Project Management

• 00: Ending and Beginning

  15 Jan 2010 | 8:39 am

  Chapter 81 is the last chapter in the Tao so last week’s blog was the end of the series. But it is a cyclical process so out of the ending comes a new beginning. I will be away travelling in San Francisco, New Zealand and Hong Kong over the next three weeks and will begin again (with what will hopefully be the final cycle) on my return. I then hope to get the final version published as a book.The WayMuch has been written about the process of project management from “Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2” and “The Project Management Body of Knowledge” (PM-BOK) to “Project…

• 81: The Reward

  9 Jan 2010 | 4:03 am

  Once again I find myself at the end of the cycle. Chapter 81 is the final chapter in the Tao. How very appropriate for coincidentally this week was my last working week at the University.The ProjectI called in after lunch on Thursday (my last day) to say goodbye and clear out my desk. Due to the adverse weather conditions there were very few people in at work and those that were wanted to get home early so I had to postpone my farewell drink until I get back from New Zealand in February.I did have a chance to thank some of the team who were in for their work over the past two years and it was…

• 80: The Simple Life

  1 Jan 2010 | 6:32 am

  So I have survived another Christmas and New Year and managed to put on another two kilos in the process. Basically I ate and drank far too much so now I need to get back to the simple life. First step a very bracing run on a frosty but sunny day. Good way to start the year.The BookMy publisher is closed this week and I need to get the final version of Project 2007 in easy steps so I can start the process of updating it to Project 2010. I’ll also need to get their up to date standards for Windows 7 screen set up and the like. Meantime I’ve mapped out the revised content for each chapter.

• 79: Win or Loose

  25 Dec 2009 | 7:22 am

  The ProjectSo finally it came to my last working day on the project. I produced a status report, budget reconciliation and end project report and handed all the files and documentation over. It seemed quite strange and just a wee bit sad as I went round handing stuff over and saying goodbye. I don’t actually retire until the 07-Jan but I’m taking the time off between now and then as holiday. I suddenly feel a big weight lifting off my shoulders.So did I win or loose? She who must be obeyed mentioned me in her little talk to Academic Services and a lot of people thanked me for all I’ve…

• 78: Soft yet Strong

  20 Dec 2009 | 8:09 am

  The ProjectI’ve started winding down now. Handing stuff over and documenting things. I wonder how things will work out on the next phase of the project, assuming of course they get the extra funding they need to continue. It’s interesting the way they go about estimating things and I do wonder if the new approach is going to be a bit too rigid about things though.The WayIf a project manager is rigid and unbending he will ultimately break. The wise project manager is like water, soft and yielding, yet water can wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a general rule, whatever is…

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  Gantthead: IT Project Management

• SMITten with ITSM

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Since service management is far more important to our customers than information technology, the acronym should be SMIT--or Service Management through Information Technology--rather than ITSM. There are many methods for structuring the improvement of the service that we provide to our customers, but all of the complexity boils down to a few important considerations.

• The Internal Customer

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Maybe we should consider our internal customers as just that--customers. That doesn't mean that we stop using ITIL and start entering them into our CRM system, but we should provide them with the same standard of service--and expect the same level of commitment.

• Haiti: A Crisis Management Nightmare (Part 1)

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  An absence of leadership has crippled rescue efforts. For crisis managers in all areas, this tragedy is a harsh reminder that provides some important lessons.

• Product Qualities Approach, Agile Style

  31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Using product quality to deliver business value in agile development is vital. This article provides a how-to for progressive change agents interested in delivering products that generate measurable business value for their customers and stakeholders. You'll learn how product qualities differ from functions, how to identify the right ones, measure them and use improvements to drive business results.

• Full Service ITIL

  31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  In the beginning of your ITIL implementation, setting up a process for service level management must be near the top of your list of priorities. Here are some items designed to get the ball rolling.

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  ITToolbox: Project Management

• Programming is the last thing you should do

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:27 am

  When you are developing a system, programming might be one of the last tasks in the project plan.

• Facebook Cyber Stalking

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:26 am

  I picked up a couple of Facebook stalkers over the last couple of weeks and have been debating how to handle it.

• Supply Chain Management Software: It's All About Visibility and Predictability

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am

  One of the key reasons many of our clients implement supply chain management software is because it provides more transparency to far-flung global operations. In today's evolving and turbulent economy, it is becoming more important for companies to effectively manage

• Supply Chain Management Software: It's All About Visibility and Predictability

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am

  One of the key reasons many of our clients implement supply chain management software is because it provides more transparency to far-flung global operations. In today's evolving and turbulent economy, it is becoming more important for companies to effectively manage

• Selecting the Final Call Center Modelling Scenario

  7 Feb 2010 | 11:06 pm

  Assess Benefits and Risks Assess the benefits and risks of implementing each modelling scenario. Pros and cons for each scenario, as well as any additional factors or considerations that have surfaced in the course of the analysis, are documented an...

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  Project Management Articles - PM Hut

• Fr[agile]

  PM Hut

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:55 pm

  Fr[agile] By Demian Entrekin Agile has certainly made the rounds as the latest and greatest software development methodology. Scrum has followed right along as a manifestation of this process. They even have, as any good movement should, their own manifesto. It is called, of all things, the Agile Manifesto. Depending on how you look at the world, agile [...]

• How to Compress Project Schedules

  PM Hut

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:50 pm

  How to Compress Project Schedules By Michael D. Taylor There are times when the project schedule duration must be shortened (compressed) either to meet market opportunity dates, to meet the desires of key stakeholders, or when the project completion date slips. In these cases the project manager must find ways to reduce the amount of time it [...]

• Critical Chain Project Management: History and Value

  PM Hut

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:27 am

  Critical Chain Project Management: History and Value By William R. Duncan Are there some good ideas being put forth by the advocates of CCPM? Yes. Are they new and innovative ideas? Not as far as I can tell. CCPM has its antecedents in something called the Theory of Constraints (TOC). TOC borrows heavily from systems dynamics (developed by [...]

• A Computational Formulation of WBS in Construction Project Management

  PM Hut

  7 Feb 2010 | 10:09 am

  A Computational Formulation of WBS in Construction Project Management By Mohamed Shameer It has been long acknowledged that the distinctive difficulty in Project management is transient, opening challenges such as follows: Definition of a project and its objectives are one-time. Hence, they tend to be incomplete (causes scope-creep), optimistic (causes cost over-run), non-comprehensive (causes rework) and ineffectively [...]

• Project Manager Value Brain Dump

  PM Hut

  6 Feb 2010 | 8:38 am

  Project Management Value Brain Dump By Thomas Cutting I am sitting here writing down all the words and phrases that come to my mind in relationship to real Project Management. Here is what I have so far. Communicating what Matters Informed Decisions Change with Purpose Monitoring Direction Leading, not just Reporting Analysis of Activity Controlling the Outcome Removing Random Factors Risk Management Involved Stakeholders Enabling Management Planning Success Integrity in [...]

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  Journyx Project Management Blog

• Diversity in Project Management

  Journyx

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  The International Community for Project Managers is a repository of articles, links and other useful pieces of information for project managers. (In fact, our CEO is one of their contributing writers.) One of their recent articles, “Implications of Diversity on Project Management,” raises an issue that most of us might not always consider – the fact that diversity in project teams is not only beneficial and desirable, but is also something that must be accounted for and managed in order to maximize value. The writer says, “Of the many factors that are used in global…

• New Year’s Resolutions For Your Projects

  Journyx

  4 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  We make New Year’s resolutions for our health, our finances, our relationships and more. But how about for our projects? Kent McDonald at ProjectConnections wrote about how to go about creating project goals for 2010 in his latest article: Goals, especially those of the measurable type, are excellent ways to know when a project is successful. Having a clear idea of what problem the project is intending to solve doesn’t hurt either. Yet it can be surprising how many projects start without any idea of what problem they’re solving, and finish—assuming they finish—without…

• The Need for Speed

  Journyx

  2 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  PM World Today published an article by James Brown about the obsession some companies have with speed. On the one hand, he approves of this attitude, saying, “Your organization should be obsessed with speed. Speed is necessary for success in today’s market.” Yet he also tempers this by noting that organizations also need to have insight, planning and a ‘braking system’ so that projects do not get out of control. He writes: Does your organization have processes in place to detect when projects are out of control? Does your organization terminate projects gone bad…

• Top PM Trends for 2010

  Journyx

  31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Project Times published an article predicting the Top Project Management Trends for 2010, and the list is as follows: The Implementation of New PPM Solutions Will Soar Reliance on Requirements Metrics to Measure Performance Will Increase Senior Executives Will Embrace the Value of Project and Program Governance PMOs Will Go to the Next Level with BA Centers of Excellence Demand for Agile Project Metrics Will Increase Vendor Management and Program Outsourcing Will Move Front and Center Risk Management Will Become a PM Obsession Crisis Environments Will Leverage Project Portfolio Principles for…

• What Value Does a PM Provide at the End of a Project?

  Journyx

  28 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  The other day, I was challenged by a client to provide a description of why they still needed a PM at the end of their project. To understand their question, and my response, you need a bit of background information first. This software development and package integration project had been running for several months, had completed the installation, custom development, and integration testing. Nearly all of the project team had been released from the project: only the lead programmer and a part time solution architect remained to deal with any issues arising during user acceptance testing…

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  PMPort News

• New PMO (Project Management Office) Design and Implementation Course from Prodevia Learning and Lisa DiTullio & Associates; Prodevia Learning and Lisa DiTullio & Associates have jointly released a new, instructor-supported distance learning course titled "Effective PMO Design and Implementation" for the global project management community.; The course provides a complete process for designing and implementing a PMO (Project Management Office) with case study exercises and templates that may be adapted to any new PMO initiative.

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  Prodevia Learning , in cooperation with Lisa DiTullio & Associates , has recently released a new distance learning course on PMO (Project Management Office) Design and Implementation for the global project management community. The course is based upon Lisa DiTullio's popular workshops and her landmark book, Simple Solutions: How "Enterprise Project Management" Supported Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Journey from Near Collapse to #1.

• ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT; New engineering and technology management study findings recently were published by researchers at Delft University of Technology

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

• UK Government: GBP4.6m Government funding to pay for vital road bridge

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  to pay for vital road bridge The people of Cumbria are to benefit from GBP4.6 million of Government funding to pay for a road bridge over the River Derwent Transport Minister Sadiq Khan announced in Workington today.

• Space Operations Institute Backs Up NASA's WISE Mission

  5 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  At Capitol College's Space Operations Institute (SOI), astronautical engineering students will have impressive experience to add to their resume when they graduate. In addition to being the primary operations center for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), the Space Operations Institute and its students now serve as the Backup Mission Operations Center (BMOC) for NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite mission.

• Finding the right solution

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  After leaving school, Tony Marks started off on the ground floor of business as a clerical assistant at Post Office Telecommunications in 1980. However, he quickly saw openings after BT was formed. Mr Marks, who is now 45, said: "I was a typical Southend teenager, looking ahead and trying to figure out what I wanted to do. "There were opportunities to be had at BT as the company prepared for the massive expansion which everyone witnessed in the mid-1980s.

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  entp hoth blog

• Introducing Companies and the User Inbox

  will

  1 Feb 2010 | 4:01 pm

  We just rolled out an update to Tender Support which includes two new features and a little bit of style polish to the supporter dashboard. So what's new? Companies User Inboxes For more details on the new features, please continue reading. Companies The Companies feature allows you to add a company that groups users together, creating a shared discussion environment. Once a user has accepted their company invite, they have access to the other company member discussions and can even invite others to join their company. We are really excited about Tender sites that have products and services…

• Scheduled server maintenance for Jan 24

  will

  22 Jan 2010 | 2:58 pm

  Tender Support and Lighthouse will undergo server maintenance at 10 a.m. PST (-8 UTC) on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. The services will be unreachable for approximately 2 hours. All incoming emails will be reprocessed once the systems have been brought back online. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Follow @tenderapp or @lighthouseapp on Twitter for live updates during the maintenance window. Updates 2010-01-24 @ 12:45 PST We're back up. All emails that came in during the maintenance window have been processed and everything on the systems look good. If you experience any issues,…

• A fresh round of Tender improvements

  rick

  12 Jan 2010 | 2:48 pm

  We recently finished up a big push for better Tender integration: Multiple Lighthouse Projects Webhooks Updates to Multipass integration More API docs Multiple Lighthouse Projects Yes, you can now setup multiple Lighthouse projects for a Tender site. For instructions on how to set this up, please see the documentation. This not only lets you integrate with multiple projects, but it allows you to use your own personal credentials. No more robot accounts! Tender also remembers your preference per category. Webhooks Webhooks allow you to integrate your services into certain Tender events with a…

• New Lighthouse improvements

  matt

  6 Jan 2010 | 1:49 pm

  We’ve recently deployed a few updates to Lighthouse: Ticket Previews Message Notifications Sortable Columns in the Ticket Listing as well as some minor improvements. For more details, continue reading. Ticket Previews! A much-requested feature in Lighthouse, you can now preview the formatting on your tickets before posting. We’re also working on adding this to Messages and Pages. Message Notifications We’re working on improving Lighthouse’s Messages feature. The first in a series of improvements is notifications. Like with Tickets, you can now choose people to get email notifications…

• Web.AppStorm Lighthouse Giveaway!

  will

  20 Dec 2009 | 5:00 pm

  The Web.AppStorm crew have done it again! This time, they're giving away a few 1 year Lighthouse accounts for their advent calendar. For more details go HERE

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  Better Projects

• Estimating credibly

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am

  An estimate can be generated in number of ways.One way is for all the work to be planned up front in sufficient detail to be able to know that you can assemble the target 'end-product.' Another way is for you to use analogy, such as using your experience to estimate the size of the work package. Simply put this is top down and bottom up estimating.There are many techniques that you can add into these approaches including function point analysis, cocomo, monte carlo estimates, team velocity and so on. These techniques are beyond the scope of this post. What I want to focus on is the space…

• Time to Retire "Scope Creep"?

  7 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm

  I recently saw an email from a project sponsor that simply replied "SCOPE CREEP!" in response to the BA's concerns about whether the report being made as part of the project was going to adequately cover the business needs of the client. The BA had suggested a few additional requirements, like formatting and additional fields to include in the report. This was after the charter was written, but before the user requirements had been captured. I was flummoxed by the response.How exactly is this scope creep? It seemed to me the scope of the project was "create a report for the client" along with…

• Filtering your work life

  5 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm

  The video below has a running time of 26 minutes and is incredibly fascinating. I can normally watch about 2-3 minutes of a video before boredom sets in, yet this one hooked me and held me all the way through. One of my biggest annoyances is touched on in this video, and that is the subject of 'information overload'. I'll let the speaker explain why he believes it is a bogus term, but I have echoed his feelings for many years. The problem is not how much information exists, but in the ways we deal with the information presented to us. As a demonstration of this, I'll use my methods for…

• How do you manage large projects with Agile?

  4 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm

  As a business analyst, I spend a lot of time focusing on gathering good requirements.  Once I have a high level set of requirements, I work to refine the requirements to the point where the developers will have enough information for design and implementation of the application.  Everyone has a method for achieving this requirements definition process but I would hope at the end they have a fairly robust set of requirements from which to work.This is where I find myself at a loss when working in an Agile environment.  I know that only the user stories that are being worked in…

• Webinar: The Business Driven Software Development

  2 Feb 2010 | 9:06 pm

  Net Objectives conducts a series of webinars on Business Driven Software Development: This series provides an introduction on how to achieve Business Agility. Business Agility enables an organization to respond quickly to external forces (such as new market opportunities and competitive forces) as well as to respond quickly to new insights attained internally. While many organizations have achieved the local optimizations of more effective teams, few have achieved agility at the organizational level. Even when team agility has been achieved, if improvements to how the business is selecting…

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• Game Theory and Project Management

  johnmcburnie

  3 Feb 2010 | 1:27 pm

  Game theory concepts can be applied to almost any discipline where at least some degree of strategy is needed. Read on to find out how elements of game theory can be used in project management, especially during negotiation and decision-making processes. What is Game Theory? Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics. Game theory looks at d...

• Factors Most Critical to the Success of a Project Manager

  SusieBrown

  2 Feb 2010 | 3:24 am

  The project manager's leadership qualities, interpersonal skills, and the ability to stay organized are some of the factors most critical to the success of a project manager. They also contribute to the success of a project, however, project managers should consider several other variables as well. Critical Success Factors in Project Management...

• Top 10 Tools for Managing Project Resources

  RondaRoberts

  2 Feb 2010 | 3:15 am

  This article outlines the top ten tools project managers need to use to manage project resources. Find resource management tools that will benefit you in your projects below. Why Use Tools for Managing Resources? Resource management can be a daunting task for any project manager. Resource management involves careful organization and planning. T...

• Prioritizing Your Projects

  RondaRoberts

  1 Feb 2010 | 2:36 pm

  When you are managing many projects at once, it is important to prioritize the projects. By setting priorities, you can ensure your projects are successful and that they get done on time. Here's some tips to help you in prioritizing your projects and the tasks you have to complete. What to Do When There's a Thousand Things Happening at Once...

• More Types of Control Charts

  heidiw0

  1 Feb 2010 | 2:36 pm

  The individuals chart is a general-purpose control chart used in Six Sigma to understand sources of variation in process performance. There are other types of control charts that are more powerful when using specific types of data, however. About Control Charts Six Sigma focuses on improving processes by identifying sources of performance variation...

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• Licensing/Activation for 3rd Party LabVIEW Add-Ons and EXEs

  Jack Barber

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am

  In the next version of LabVIEW , we will introduce a new method for licensing/product activation of third-party products (for Windows platforms). You will be able to add a layer of licensing to your add-ons and EXEs to protect your products with a similar sort of mechanism that NI uses. The licensing feature employs a commercial-grade encryption scheme and automated activation system. How it works There are two types of licensing that this feature will enable: development licensing and deployment licensing. Development licensing refers to protecting VIs in the LabVIEW environment. Add-on…

• Review Meetings: When Talking Is Effective

  erikvanslyke

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:16 am

  A number of years ago I had a boss who was so focused on staying on schedule during meetings that he forgot we were actually gathered to accomplish something.  He thought nothing of interrupting a productive dialog to remind everyone that we needed to move to the next agenda item.  The poor fellow thought “accomplishment” was the same as placing a check mark next to everything on our list.  He equated completing an activity with achieving a result. I actually think his obsession with the agenda was his way of dealing with the emotional discomfort he felt in conversations where…

• Mandatory Honesty Standards in the PMI Code of Ethics

  lhilkemann

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am

  Responsibility, Respect, Fairness, and Honesty are the four pillars of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (http://www.pmi.org/PDF/ap_pmicodeofethics.pdf). Each of these four pillars contains both aspirational and mandatory standards. There are two mandatory standards for honesty in the Code of Ethics. The first statement is: “5.3.1 We do not engage in or condone behavior that is designed to deceive others, including but not limited to, making misleading or false statements, stating half-truths, providing information out of context or…

• Role of project team in process improvement

  ahmedashfaque

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:21 pm

  So your organization determined that the way some of the project tasks were carried out were not optimum and needed some overhaul. The management has come up with a new process definition and expects that project teams should do their tasks in the new way. The management has termed this as a process improvement exercise. What will be the impact on the project team as far as this initiative goes? Let us take an example to understand it. Presently the software development team in the organization used to write their source code and would do the usual debugging, unit testing and integration…

• The ‘other’ Stakeholders

  Mike Clayton

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm

  I led an introductory workshop on project management on Friday for a wonderful group of members of t

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• Working on IT Projects of the Future

  Elizabeth

  6 Feb 2010 | 9:46 am

  According to Gartner, IT departments in 2012 will look fundamentally different to the IT departments we work in now. The analyst company has predicted that an IT department will add four new roles to the team in the coming years.  None of them are specifically project related but they all have an impact on the way in which we manage IT projects. The roles are: Litigation support manager Enterprise information architect Digital archivist Business information manager. What these roles mean for IT project managers Litigation support manager There is a lot of regulation that surrounds IT, and…

• The Need for Formal Project Change Control

  Brad Egeland

  5 Feb 2010 | 3:25 pm

  A rigorous, formal change approval process will enable you to maintain control of your resources and integrate approved changes into the product or project development flow.  Many large development organizations already have a formal change proposal review and approval process in place and if that is the case in your organization, count yourself blessed.  If it is not, then it may be worth your while to read on and understand why it is so important. A change approval process maintains your resource control Post requirements baseline changes are trouble – the purpose of the baseline was to…

• Lafayette Building falls in slow motion

  Arjun Thomas

  4 Feb 2010 | 7:11 pm

  Sourced from Freep.com The long, slow death of downtown’s Lafayette Building has given gawkers something new to look at and bloggers something new to complain about online. Detroit’s Downtown Development Authority voted last June 25 to demolish the vacant office building. Seven months later, the building was still only half down this week, with a lot more work to go. Waymon Guillebeaux, vice president of project management for the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., which oversees the demolition, said two major delays cropped up since the DDA’s vote. First, nearby filming of the…

• Should Technology Drive the Solution?

  Brad Egeland

  4 Feb 2010 | 9:41 am

  “Oh…pick me, pick me Mr. Kawtter!” (as Horshack would say to Kotter for those of you old enough to remember – see image to the left) I know this one. But wait, new technology is so cool…and so much fun. And often the customer comes to you with the solution in mind that includes this technology. And sometimes he even has the money to back it up. Resist! Resist at all costs! The answer is a resounding NO. Technology should not drive the solution. Never ever ever. It may be the solution, but there’s work to be done first to get there. Follow the process, push back on the persistent…

• Retraining programs bring hope to the unemployed

  Arjun Thomas

  3 Feb 2010 | 7:04 pm

  Sourced from the Spokesman Dana Moosman never saw unemployment on the horizon. With a master’s degree in education and five years in the mortgage insurance business, she figured the outlook was promising, or at least steady. But the economy hit harder than she imagined. It’s clear – with a national unemployment rate of 10 percent and a Washington state rate of 9.5 percent – that the Spokane Valley woman’s situation is familiar to many. As Moosman discovered, though, it’s not hopeless. Community colleges throughout the state offer a variety of state- and federally funded programs…

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• A Loss to the Consulting Industry

  Jeff Edwards

  21 Jan 2010 | 7:22 pm

  There is sad news out of the consulting world. David Maister, consultant to the consultant, has reached the momentous decision to retire. Dr. Maister has spent the last three decades studying and counseling consulting firms. While I never did get a chance to see him speak in person, I have read his books. Managing the Professional Service Firm was always near at hand while I established my small consulting practice a few years ago. I am confident that his advice kept me from turning down many wrong paths. For those interested, you can catch a glimpse of him in a few videocasts.I wish him…

• Murder by Numbers

  Jeff Edwards

  15 Jan 2010 | 6:42 pm

  The day before we disembarked from our ship, the cruise director emphasized just how important it is to complete our passenger questionnaires. Apparently, the cruise line's management places a great deal of weight on passengers' responses. Bonuses are decided. Promotions are offered. Staff is terminated. This cruise director even directed us to rate a feature as Exceeded Expectations when it didn't necessarily. After all, "the numeric rating for Exceeded Expectations is the range 100-75. A score of 75 translates to a grade of C in school. That doesn't seem right." The cruise director's…

• Greatest Importance for Success

  Jeff Edwards

  30 Oct 2009 | 7:38 pm

  Lewis and Clark knew management. One important management principle shows up in the correspondence between Lewis and Clark as far back as 1803. American readers will remember that Lewis and Clark, with a group of frontiersmen, set out to find a water passage from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. The timing of the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806) seems as though President Jefferson was telling the men, “We just bought a huge chunk of land. Now go see what we just purchased.” In reality, Thomas Jefferson had pursued several ideas for…

• Towers Perrin's Top-10 List for Employee Engagement

  Jeff Edwards

  25 Aug 2009 | 6:39 pm

  Another firm that chimes in about employee engagement is Towers Perrin. Like Accenture, Towers Perrin also has a top-10 list for employee engagement.Senior management sincerely interested in employee well-beingAbility to improve skills and capabilities Organization’s reputation for social responsibility Employees' input into decision making Quick resolution of customer concerns Setting of high personal standards Excellent career advancement opportunities Challenging work assignments that broaden skills Good relationships with supervisors Organization encourages innovative thinking Most of…

• Accenture's Top-10 List for Employee Engagement

  Jeff Edwards

  19 Aug 2009 | 9:54 am

  I found that Accenture’s Human Performance service line has considered how employee engagement affects profit, productivity, and innovation. They have found a direct relationship between employee engagement and profit, productivity, and innovation. Accenture’s analyses have shown that the higher an organization scores on the ten areas below, the higher the employee engagement rating.Recognition and rewards must be linked to job and business performanceHr systems must provide managers with the information they needLearning opportunities for current and future positions must be…

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• Implementing SCRUM…the basics – part 2

  jkinter

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:44 am

  via Flickr by drewgstephens In this post, I explained that SCRUM is not a silver bullet and that there some significant barriers to entry for organizations wanting to adopt SCRUM. In this post, I’m going to introduce Agile estimating, planning poker, fibonacci, and velocity. Let’s say that your organization is ready to go, you’ve turned command and control on it’s ear, you’ve identified the Product Owner and you’re going to be the ScrumMaster. You’ve put together a team of seasoned developers, a creative designer, and a QA Lead, but the designer and…

• Do testers goldplate too?

  Jennifer Bedell

  7 Feb 2010 | 2:13 am

  via Flickr by by Mykl Roventine Why is it always the developers who get blamed for goldplating? Most people who have worked in a project environment know that goldplating is one of the biggest contributors to scope creep. When you consider that the cost of change increases as the project timeline progresses, it becomes evident that, in addition to increasing scope, goldplating by a developer can also be costly. But, what if the developers are not the only contributors to goldplating? What if goldplating is also being done by the testers? Considering the cost of change at the various stages in…

• Why I’m mourning for Toyota

  Josh Nankivel, BSc PM, PMP

  4 Feb 2010 | 2:59 am

  I’m sure you’ve all heard about the recent news with Toyota. by prakhar via Flickr Recalls happen.  It’s a statistical certainty that companies are going to have recalls from time to time.  Usually it’s something minor in nature but recently Toyota has had multiple issues regarding accelerators sticking and potential braking system issues. The part I’m in mourning about are reports that Toyota required extensive outside pressure to act in some cases.  These are big safety issues. According to US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, when government officials…

• Do you over-deliver?

  Josh Nankivel, BSc PM, PMP

  3 Feb 2010 | 1:07 am

  by TMAB2003 via Flickr It’s something that gets a lot of lip service. But are YOU doing it? You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. -Zig Ziglar Rob from Singapore asked a question about how to gain experience in project management when starting from the role of an individual contributor on projects. I posted an answer to that on a new experiment I have going on at pmStudent.org and I’ll riff on that now. Be known as a person who over-delivers If you are an individual contributor  on a project now, are you the kind of team member that…

• Interview with Steven Kass (AskAboutProjects.com)

  Josh Nankivel, BSc PM, PMP

  2 Feb 2010 | 1:01 am

  In Not the Status Report episode # 4 I talked about AskAboutProjects.com, a site similar in function to StackOverflow.com where anyone can ask questions. Answers are voted up or down and those ratings make the best answers rise to the top. I really enjoy the site and what it offers. So, I recently interviewed Steven Kass who is one of the people behind the site. Tell our audience a little about yourself Steven. I am a Project Manager with 10 years experience. I have always worked in IT; mostly telecom and data network projects. Two years ago, I passed the PMP certification and found it was a…

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• TOM'S POSITION ON REAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: IT IS NOT ABOUT PROGRAMMING!

  30 Jan 2010 | 7:29 pm

  http://bit.ly/axtT9A www.semat.org My Position Paper for March Zurich Conference. Too many 'coders' involved! A select group of 'wise old men' (at least 'old') including me, is going to meet 17-19 March at ETH Zurich, to tackle the problem of making real software engineering happen. I am also going to hold some courses public in town that week too. We have failed miserably, and we have been the methods leaders, book writers, conference speakers for decades. Reading some other's position papers, I am already worried, as I initially was, that some of these people still do not see a distinction…

• Report with pictures from our Value Management experience workshop - building robots

  10 Dec 2009 | 3:38 pm

  Sorry about all these pictures, but I am very excited about this workshop ;-) This is the setup for each team. Prioritizing from Finance to Stakeholder Values to Product with Product Values to Sub-Products with Sub-Product Values to Solutions. to Evo Cycles. Then build the Solutions with sw and Lego. test with measurements missions. repeat. Here you see glimpses of the Value Decision Tables, and Solution description. Intense testing. Reality hits. Getting better and better for every cycle (with a few occasional setbacks:-). Every critical Product Value is quantified with Status and Goal…

• Part of a Set of slides on Project Predictability, for a Top Manager Presentation

  7 Dec 2009 | 7:53 am

  Principles of Professional Change You have to define your critical organizational improvements quantitatively You have to judge all organizational strategies in relation to these critical objectives You have to roll out change early and often, and Measure the effect immediately You have to prioritize change strategies that really work, and kill off those that don’t, before scaling up Focus on Meta-Strategies: those that allow decentralized feedback and change during projects (like Evo and Spec QC) Project Architecture must explicitly address quantified project objectives All cost-driving…

• Business Values are always subjective, and almost always quantifiable: an angry answer to ...

  5 Dec 2009 | 1:48 pm

  A BLOGGER, FOLLOWED BY A TWITTER AND RETWEET SAID TODAY ...... "Ppl talk a lot about business value, but they forget that for most people business value is totally subjective! (i.e. unquantifiable)" FROM Tom To the blogger/twitterer (who could be many of you out there, not least - your manager!) I think you need straightening out, regarding your terms and concepts. Of course, you don't have to get straightened out!  :) 'Subjective' means, based on personal opinion, as opposed to more-objective observation "I think he is heavy". (subjective) "The Scale shows he is 100 kilos" (objective)…

• Agile is NOT a major solution to Bad Government or Private IT Projects!

  4 Dec 2009 | 1:00 pm

  From: Tom Gilb tom@gilb.com Sent: 2009-12-03 10:14:10 CET To: Frederik Hermann Siegumfeldt frhs@itst.dk Subject: here is a summary of my 5 oral remarks after your talk at Agile 09 Copenhagen 2 Dec09 1. Agile is not any kind of main solution to the problem of failed or bad government projects. It has no track record of doing so Iteration (aka Evolutionary, US DoD Std 494, 1994, an Evolutionary standard, distancing itself from Waterfall) is a very useful principle, long before the 'Agile' era. But you must not confuse Rapid delivery cycle feedback, with Agile. Agile (like Scrum, actually does…

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• “I did not sign up for this project management stuff.”

  Ron

  2 Feb 2010 | 3:56 am

  There I was in full flight during a project management course when someone said: “I did not sign up for all this project stuff.” The person who made the comment was a graduate, had studied hard to become a professionally qualified solicitor within a company. He was effectively questioning why he was why he was involved in project management and on the course. After a brief series of questions (from me) and answer session from him I established that he was part of a two major projects and had contributed enormously to build a business case for one of them. He enjoyed his work as a…

• Project briefing - sponsors must do better!

  Ron

  26 Jan 2010 | 3:10 am

  That was the response from participants on a project management workshop. How did this come about? We have an activity where I give them a brief. By brief I mean some background information about a project. This led to a an interesting debate with a substantial proportion voicing concerns that the briefings they had from senior mangers were vague and did not help them very much. This reminded me of a client we had some years ago. They requested we design a briefing exercise to help senior managers develop skills in this area. We broke the project management course into 3 groups with 3 people…

• Government computer failures add up to huge bills for taxpayers

  Ron

  19 Jan 2010 | 2:12 am

  The government comes in for huge criticism in today’s The Independent Newspaper (19 January 2010) Banner headlines shout: “Ministers blamed for “stupendous incompetence” after tax payers left with huge bills for bungled projects” The article highlights 10 notorious projects including the most costly programme; the £12.7 Billion IT system designed to revolutionise the NHS. The article questions the benefits of the system with pledges going unfulfilled for many years. The Independent suggests that “Government departments right across Whitehall have been…

• So, as my project sponsor….

  Ron

  18 Jan 2010 | 6:54 am

  Project Manager (PM): Can I just check, are you the project sponsor for this project? Project Sponsor (PS): Yes, I thought you knew that PM: Well, I thought it was the case however, no one has formally told me. I am putting together various documents for this project and it is obvious that this will take me quite a while. I want to talk with you, the sponsor about the overall project governance process. PS: Project governance. What do you mean exactly by this? PM: Sorry, it’s project management jargon that gets in the way. Well, we need to define the boundaries. What decisions can I…

• Questioning, one of those project management skills that needs to be well honed.

  Ron

  11 Jan 2010 | 2:07 am

  I was facilitating a workshop with a project team and realised that something was wrong! Symptom: the 5 people in the project team were talking differently about the project Analysis: I gave each person a piece of flip chart paper and asked them to write down the project objectives Result: 4 different sets of objectives (2 were the same) We discussed this and the team came to the conclusion that they had not done enough asking. This however was challenged by one of the team members. She gave a schedule of people they had spoken to and it was impressive. The room went quiet, very quiet. I then…

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• “Getting Real” – should you read it?

  Karol Zielinski

  1 Feb 2010 | 4:54 am

  “Getting real” (by 37signals) – discover the smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web-based application. Is it worth to read? I have read this book some time ago. However, because I want to describe here all the books, that I have read about project management, entrepreneurship, small business, etc – I will write few sentences about that, too. Is it worth to read? Answer is a bit too easy, but it’s simply true… if you are an entrepreneur (even non-web entrepreneur), project manager, web programmer or any other person related to web management…

• In what language your blog should be?

  Karol Zielinski

  29 Jan 2010 | 5:58 am

  Some time ago I heard that I should improve my English skills; that I should learn how to write English… as well as if I’m Polish, then I should write Polish. No f*in’ way! Yesterday under my post “How long should be the post on your blog?” (yes, I know that there is a grammar error in that) James (I don’t know your surname or even your webpage so I can’t link to you) wrote that I need to learn how to write English. What can I say? Sure, I need to. I should to. I want to… I even try to. However… is it good enough reason to not to write here in…

• Facebook is not Twitter. You shouldn’t have too many friends there.

  Karol Zielinski

  27 Jan 2010 | 5:53 am

  For a long time I was thinking why Facebook is such a great tool for promoting our projects? I mean not exactly facebook’s fan pages, or external applications (such as NetworkedBlogs); but via our typical, private accounts. It’s obvious fact, that facebook is a great tool for all kind of marketing actions. Thanks to all our friends, whole community (350 million users!), fan pages, external apps, etc our message could easily be noticed by lots of people. That’s obvious. However each of these parts of facebook have their own rules of good proceedings. On fan pages your main…

• “Who moved my cheese?” about the change management

  Karol Zielinski

  21 Jan 2010 | 8:42 am

  I just read a book “Who moved my cheese?”, written by Spencer Johnson. Long time ago I heard lots of positive opinions about this book, so after a while I decided to read it. Finally I found some free time for doing it. What is “Who moved my cheese?”? In few simple words: that’s the book about the change management. On whomovedmycheese.com you can read: Who Moved My Cheese? is the story of four characters living in a “Maze” who face unexpected change when they discover their “Cheese” has disappeared. Sniff and Scurry, who are mice, and Hem…

• How long should be the post on your blog?

  Karol Zielinski

  19 Jan 2010 | 5:33 am

  Answer is really simple: it depends. It depends on the target of your blog; it depends on the visitors of your blog. And what’s the most important… it depends on the type of published content. You can easily understand how long should be the post on your blog. Everything you have to know, is that the decision should be the sum of two components: human is inherently lazy everything depends on the content of your blog So… let’s talk about these points. Ad. 1 Human is inherently lazy This is particularly clear in the 21st century, when we have to choose plenty from…

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• Inspirational Quote about Not Wasting Today via Jeff Koons

  Regis Hadiaris

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  I wake up, I pinch myself. “Ok, today is the day, Jeff. Use today. Try to do something remarkable. Don’t waste it.” -Jeff Koons, Artist See also:Inspirational Quote about Persistence Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize... Inspirational Quote about Uncertainty It’s the dull man who is always sure and the... Inspirational Quote about Success Success doesn’t come to you, you go get it. -...

• Unconventional Ideas Update for 2010-02-05

  Regis Hadiaris

  5 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm

  Siri – new virtual personal assistant for the iPhone. And it's free. Interested to hear from real people using it… http://su.pr/284hZQ # Coming soon on Dot Connector: Joel Gurman (http://www.joelgurman.com) on lessons learned from being a Snap Fitness franchisee! # More on augmented reality technology in action, this time from Esquire magazine: http://su.pr/2BUYNs # The Sony bouncy balls commercial. Unconventional. Fun. Memorable. http://su.pr/A9dZgT # The most beautiful commercial ever? http://su.pr/2yS5TU # Meeting Facilitation: 6 Tips to Conduct Meetings That Don’t…

• Meeting Facilitation: 6 Tips to Conduct Meetings That Don’t Suck

  Regis Hadiaris

  3 Feb 2010 | 12:56 pm

  Do create meetings that people get excited about?  (source: Pink Sherbert / CC 2.0) Meetings: Some are great, some are horribly bad.  Some are required, while others are ad hoc events.  Weekly project team meetings can be a useful tool in managing projects.  One-on-one meetings can help leaders dig deep using questions to help their team create a shared vision.  Some people hate meetings, other people love them.  Bottom-line: meetings are only as good as the meeting facilitation skills of the person facilitating them. “Of all the meetings that I’ve gone to in the past, virtually…

• Inspirational Quote about Motivation [via Ralph Waldo Emerson]

  Regis Hadiaris

  31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame… - Ralph Waldo Emerson See also:Inspirational Quote about Perspective The years teach much which the days never knew. -... Inspirational Quote about Trust in Others Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat... Inspirational Quote about Enthusiasm Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm -Ralph W. Emerson...

• Unconventional Ideas Update for 2010-01-27

  Regis Hadiaris

  27 Jan 2010 | 12:00 pm

  Personal Branding 101: Who are you? What do you do? Why should I care? http://su.pr/2dRen3 Tip: honest answers = more success in your life # How Hampton Inn became the #4 franchise by applying unconventional thinking: http://su.pr/2KKZd4 Tip: Guarantee satisfaction, no ?s asked! # Inspirational Quote about Opportunity [via Steve Jobs] http://dotconnectorblog.com/v94J # New on Dot Connector Blog: 4 Ways to Seize Career Opportunities [Plus: Overcoming Obstacles Video] http://ow.ly/1nmBwn # How Pandora could be way better: don't just give me artists in the same "genre", give me…

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• Understanding The Significance Of Weak Ties In Your Professional Life.

  Rajiv Popat

  7 Feb 2010 | 3:42 pm

  If you worked with me years or even months ago, chances are that I have lost your phone number. Chances are also high that I have not kept in touch with you. Like most programmers, I knit closely with you when you are working with me and then when our ways part, I disconnect. But then, I have nothing against you. It is just that when you move on and do not connect on a daily basis, that familiar Malcolm Gladwell, in his book, participating and sharing experiences that I am starting my very own little corner in facebook. You, dear reader, are invited to I hope to see you there. Now, take a…

• Leadership Tip: Your Ideas Do Not Need Your Protection - They Need Your Commitment.

  Rajiv Popat

  6 Feb 2010 | 3:57 pm

  Fred can make out that he has spent weeks in: Cooking up an idea. Doing paperwork around the idea. Building PowerPoint presentations around the idea. Fantasying how he is going to become rich after the idea clicks. Making sure he can screw anyone who tries to steal his idea. There is, however, just one little problem with his idea. It is not genuine, it has nothing new in it and it is not even worth spreading, leave aside stealing it. The success of this idea, like most others, is truly dependent on the implementation of the idea. his post on the topic. Fred has worked for hours on making…

• Programmer Tip: Consider Looking For Your Own Sources Of Motivation.

  Rajiv Popat

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:03 am

  You have just finished patting yourself on your back for getting a team of seriously kick ass developers up and running. The team has not just they actually have the secret sauce for success. Products are on time. Customers love your organization. The sky is blue and it is Jack walks into your cubical and tells you that he isn't feeling motivated enough. Morpheus from

• Programmer Tip: Consider Taking A Couple Of Happy Hours Each Day Of Your Life.

  Rajiv Popat

  31 Jan 2010 | 12:53 pm

  On a typical day that looks like any other, for anything between three to ten hours, I am an employee. Most of that time, I spend firefighting. Jack is having a problem with the data-access layer, somewhere cannot seem to get much done. Seventeen emails I have not responded to sitting in my inbox. I just missed a status call. Last I checked I was going to get back to cubical farm is quite. When I am not speeding. When I am not cruising on employee-auto-pilot-reactive-mode. This is when I am not assertive. I am not running around solving problems. I am not in meeting rooms. I am not scribbling…

• Programmer Tip: No One Really Cares About Your Failures.

  Rajiv Popat

  30 Jan 2010 | 3:05 pm

  Jack mention this over a conversation at a friendly neighborhood food joint, I cringe. There is nothing wrong with anonymity. Which name a man writes under, is every man's own choice. What irks me however, is an overly conscious attitude towards failure and the active effort being put behind hiding how much you suck. In the world where I live, spending time and effort behind shit-canning how much you suck seems like an utter waste of time. Everyone successful at what they do, that I know of, is often rather open and candid about how much he sucks. classic post on Languages, makes a rather…

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• Open Source Project Management Software Review

  John Reeve

  3 Feb 2010 | 8:44 am

  We are, and always have been, big fans of open source software. In our daily workflow at Pelago we use various open source technologies; PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, Apache, Subversion, and many others. We primarily use these open source technologies in developing Intervals, our online time, task and project management software, and in designing and developing web sites and web-based applications for our clients. When selecting online project management software for your company, not everyone wants to use a hosted pay-per-month app. Some would rather download the app and install it on their…

• Working Remotely as a Web Designer, Developer or Creative

  John Reeve

  26 Jan 2010 | 2:32 pm

  I recently brought home a new laptop. After getting all of my favorite apps installed and customizing my desktop, it was time to get to work. As a web designer and developer most of the work I do has an online component, making working remotely from home, or the local coffee shop, ideal. That isn’t to say it’s easy to work remotely, because it is not. There are several challenges, even some technical ones, to telecommuting effectively. Most of these challenges can be overcome with the right tools, the right attitude and a little creativity. Ground Control to Major Tom Solitude is…

• Online Time Tracking, Task Management and Project Management, Reprised

  John Reeve

  19 Jan 2010 | 1:35 pm

  The landscape of online offerings in the time tracking, task management and project management realm of productivity tools has changed considerably in just the last year. Not only have the number of online applications increased, but the versatility and uniqueness of web-based software has also grown to meet the needs of every niche imaginable. The suite of available web-based applications for web designers, web developers and creatives has grown considerably, most likely because the ones churning out these online apps are themselves designers and developers with experience in creative…

• Web Design, Artisans and Craftsmanship

  John Reeve

  13 Jan 2010 | 9:05 am

  The DesignInformer has posted an excellent article calling web designers to slow down a little and give more thought and time to exploring the roots of our craft and our origins as artisans. Principles of Great Design: Craftsmanship outlines five essential points every designer should address in the course of their careers: Practice Education Accept Criticism Attention to detail Design for the future Definitely read this one. It’s a well-thought and well-written blog post on why web designers need to get back to their artisan roots, and expands on a blog post I wrote last week about web…

• Designing Web Sites Using Pencil and Paper

  John Reeve

  5 Jan 2010 | 4:30 pm

  When asked about what goes into a web site design most of us web designers will automatically start talking about color palettes, image formats, UI effects, and of course, Photoshop and its endless array of filters, plugins and effects. What about the design? Where do the ideas and the creativity come from? How does a visual concept floating around in our brain make its way onto the computer screen? The web medium is a digital one, but all good ideas usually come from analog instruments that have been around for a very long time… pencil and paper. Any good web designer should be a…

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• How Technology Affects Project Management

  Andrew Filev

  1 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  Elizabeth Harrin, the author of A Girl’s Guide to Project Management blog, and I picked a topic and exchanged guest posts, intending to bring you, our readers, some additional benefits of viewing the subject from two different angles. Please find Elizabeth’s writing below. You will find my piece at pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com. It was not that long ago that a printed out Project Charter would be the start of project approval.  The key stakeholders would physically sign the document, which would be passed in the internal mail between parties, finally returning to the project…

• The Rules of the Project: Two Strategies for Aligning Means

  Andrew Filev

  20 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

  This is a guest post by Bas de Baar, the author of Project Shrink. This article originally appeared on his blog. The ideas of this post are aligned with my personal philosophy in many ways, so I felt that you would benefit from reading it here, on the Project Management 2.0 blog. Aligning the means between individuals, project and organization is a Herculean task for any Project Leader. The means are the rules of the project. The way things are done. Following are two strategies that can be used to align means. To provide you with some ideas. To start the discussion. Patterning – Going…

• Vote for My Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2010 Proposal!

  Andrew Filev

  14 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

  As you may know from my previous posts, I have submitted a session proposal to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2010. In my session, I’m going to develop ideas from the presentation “Email Is Dead… Long Live Email!” Recently, the conference organizers announced the opening of the Community Vote, which will play major part in the selection of the sessions that will be presented at the conference in Boston. I’m excited about the start of the voting, and I ask for your support. If you liked my “Email Is Dead… Long Live Email!” presentation, I…

• 33 Selected Blogs Update: 11 More Blogs for Project Management Innovators

  Andrew Filev

  13 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

  I was happy to see that you enjoyed my list of 33 Selected Blogs about Innovation, Project Management and 2.0. The post got over 220 comments and still counting! Some of you also pointed me to a few excellent resources that I didn’t mention in the general list. So in this post, I’d like to add another 11 blogs for project management innovators to my initial collection. 1.    Instigator Blog is your destination if you are an entrepreneur or a software start-up CEO. The author, Ben Yoskovitz, writes on a variety of topics, but I especially liked his pieces on social…

• PMI’s New Media Council: Count Me In!

  Andrew Filev

  30 Dec 2009 | 12:00 am

  I’m excited to let you know that I was invited to join a group of influential bloggers and podcasters organized by the Project Management Institute! From now on, I am honored to say that I am a member of PMI's New Media Council. This group was launched in October 2008 to help PMI and its members understand new and emerging trends in the project management profession, especially those being discussed in new media channels: blogs, podcasts, social networks, Twitter, etc. I believe this is an outstanding initiative that will help to bridge the gap between traditional project management…

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• The Case For The Business Case

  Jorge Dominguez, PMP

  31 Jan 2010 | 9:30 pm

  The business case document… How wonderful if it was developed every time there was a business need if only for the benefit of the business itself.The hard truth is that this document is not being produced in the majority of the projects that see the light. The business case document is the only document that supports the business need and reasoning for initiating a project or not. How long or short it is has no relevance; the relevance lies in its existance. The most compelling business cases adequately capture tangible as well as untangible characteristics of a proposed project.Wikipedia…

• MS Project: There Is A Tip For That – Part 1

  Jorge Dominguez, PMP

  31 Dec 2009 | 9:30 pm

  Let’s get to the point and to right into the MS Project tips*.1) To Change Views: Select the View menu and select a new view. Or, press + and press the underlined letter in the view name2) To Display the View Bar: Select View View Bar from the menu3) To Use More Views: Select View More Views from the menu. Select a view in the dialog box and click Apply4) To Create a New Project: Select File New from the menu and click Blank Project in the task pane. Or, click the New button, or press + 5) To Enter the Scheduling Date: Select Project Project Information from the…

• Project Status Is Critical But Stable

  Jorge Dominguez, PMP

  30 Nov 2009 | 9:01 pm

  Most project status reports tell you that the project is doing well, others are braver and say that the project is “a little” behind schedule but there is “plenty” of time to catch up, some report on budget/schedule plan vs. actual but most fail to indicate what exactly has been completed and what remains to be completed as well as issues and risks.Some status reports incorporate a red, yellow (or amber), green stoplight. Other more sophisticated are in the form of key performance indicators (KPIs). They both indicate the health of the project based on pre-defined thresholds of mostly…

• Project Management: Art Or Science

  Jorge Dominguez, PMP

  31 Oct 2009 | 10:00 pm

  Is project management art or science?Project managers are certainly both artists and scientists though not in the context in which we know these words. Project managers apply a science using art.Science comes into play when the PM acquires and embraces all the theory he/she has learned through experience, training, certification, etc. PMs use frameworks such as PMBoK or PRINCE based on time-tested methods that have been proven to be effective through years of implementation.Some science points:• Different methodologies and frameworks available (PMBoK, PRINCE, etc.)• Standard processes and…

• Breaking The Work Breakdown Structure

  Jorge Dominguez, PMP

  30 Sep 2009 | 9:01 pm

  The work breakdown structure (WBS) is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables.The WBS organizes and defines the planned work tasks of the project. How detailed should it be and how many levels should it have? The obvious answer is as detailed and as low as it can be scheduled, estimated, monitored and controlled, or it won’t be effective. You can have the most detailed WBS in the world but if it cannot be managed it will not work. So, depending on the project…

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• Are You Measured By Results Produced Or The Time Spent In The Office?

  Utpal Vaishnav

  6 Feb 2010 | 3:24 am

  You are considered an expert in your field and you have recently changed your employer for a good package. To produce great output in your expertise area, you need to spend only a few hours a day – you don’t need to come at a fixed time and go at a fixed time but your output are just excellent. The other persons in your organization with similar experience level and position spend the whole day (and sometime nights also) to produce almost the same (may be inferior) results. They come before the office time starts and normally go hours after the office time is over. Now there are 2 types…

• Open Secret Of The Marriage Between Vision and Action

  Utpal Vaishnav

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:29 am

  In my decennium long experience journey, I have seen organizations which have a great vision – a vision to become a world class company which is super-positive. 100% win-win for all the entities involved, performance centric, employee and society friendly, ultimate customer delight centric… the best! But with very little actions. Little actions lead to fewer results and thus little experience to count on.  But they have great measurability of the results. Measurability is the lens of their vision. The other type of organizations is “Action” centric. They do not have any permanent…

• Absolute Productivity Killer – Thousand Strict Regulations And Low Trust

  Utpal Vaishnav

  3 Feb 2010 | 11:09 am

  Better if software services organizations have only a few simple and strong regulations for their people. Regulations are substitutes for faith…faith in your people’s goodwill, faith in their competence and faith in their commitment. The more the organizations doubt their people, the more rules and regulations they impose. Some organizations treat their software engineers like illiterate laborers of 1970 and impose pointless regulations which greatly influence them to be unproductive. For example: The software engineers should sit on their seat for the whole day and do work, work and work…

• 9 Rock Solid Thoughts You May Love To Revisit From #3Idiot (’s) Perspective

  Utpal Vaishnav

  30 Jan 2010 | 9:24 am

  3 Idiots is one of the most enjoyable Indian movies of this decade. The director Rajkumar Hirani has shown us a bollywoodified yet marvelous view of the masterpiece – Five Point Someone from Chetan Bhagat. Here are nine rock solid thoughts you may love to revisit from the movie’s perspective. Knowledge is just a dead thing without its timely application. (Salt water is good conductor of electricity) Do whatever gives you utmost enjoyment . Do what you can do effortlessly – if you don’t enjoy whatever you are doing right now; it’s the time to revisit your goals. (Farhan…

• Poor Health Indicators Of Subverting Organizations

  Utpal Vaishnav

  24 Jan 2010 | 12:28 pm

  Domineering leadership: Leadership does not accept disagreements out of anxiety or haughtiness. “Yes mans” are climbing the wall of quick success here. High employee turnover ratio in senior management. Poor evaluation systems: Inefficient feedback and evaluation systems incapable of providing correct leadership and management performance evaluation data to the top management. Hidden agendas: Existence of invisible profit centres by cutting employee benefits. Hiring and promotions are based on political agendas. Hiring from personal references or relatives to pocket personal loyalty at…

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  RationalPlan News

• RationalPlan Project Management Software 3.16 is available

  20 Jan 2010 | 8:20 am

  Stand By Soft just released RationalPlan 3.16.0, a project management software suite. In the news: Upgraded to Mac OS X Snow Leopard Significantly increased execution speed for resource sheet Associate file type extensions on silent install Bug fixes For additional information, please visit http://www.rationalplan.com.

• RationalPlan Project Management Software 3.15.7 is available

  30 Nov 2009 | 8:40 am

  Stand By Soft just released RationalPlan 3.15.7, a project management software suite. In the news: Email integration with Yahoo, Hotmail, Live Added quantity column in assignment table Remember last used time scale Added predecessors end date and successors start date columns Bug fixes For additional information, please visit http://www.rationalplan.com.

• RationalPlan Project Management Software 3.15.6 is available

  27 Oct 2009 | 4:10 am

  Stand By Soft just released RationalPlan 3.15.6, a project management software. For additional information, please visit http://www.rationalplan.com.

• RationalPlan Project Management Software 3.15.4 is available

  23 Sep 2009 | 5:00 am

  Stand By Soft just released RationalPlan 3.15.4, a project management software. In the news: Added more task types Increased execution speed Silent install possibility on Windows Bug fixes For additional information, please visit http://www.rationalplan.com.

• RationalPlan Project Management Software 3.15.0 is available

  20 Aug 2009 | 3:00 am

  Stand By Soft just released RationalPlan 3.15.0, a project management software. In the news: Changed the scheduling mechanism such that it will allow users to have conflicts Added shortcut icons for the guide when hidden Copy/paste tasks with assigned resources Added successors tab in task details view Export more data to Excel Bug fixes For additional information, please visit http://www.rationalplan.com.

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• Method123 Financial Planning Template Release

  7 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Method123 announces the release of their new Financial Planning templateIndustry leader Method123 announced the release of another powerful template in their Project Management Template Kit the Fina...

• Managing Project Management Template Risks

  3 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

  If all of our projects just smoothly followed our project schedule we d have it made. No issues, no budget overruns, no cranky customers, no scope changes. But that s not the case. There are al...

• Project Management Templates - Quality Plan

  31 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

  New comprehensive Quality Plan template release announced by Method123Method123 has just announced the release a new full-featured Quality Plan template as part of their overall Project Management Kit...

• Stay Focused on the End Project Management Templates

  27 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

  From a daily standpoint, the Project Manager is interested in completing tasks, delivery status, communication and updates and getting to the end point of the day with both the delivery team and the c...

• New Comprehensive Quality Plan Template

  24 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

  New comprehensive Quality Plan template release announced by Method123Method123 has just announced the release a new full-featured Quality Plan template as part of their overall Project Management Kit...

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• Project Management Software Review Change Request

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Review Change RequestThe Change Manager reviews the CRF and determines whether or not a Feasibility Study is required for the Project Plan Change Approval Group to assess the full impact of the change...

• Onine Project Management Process Review

  4 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Process Review FormThis form is used to assess the level of quality of the project management template processes undertaken during the course of the project. Process Reviews are undertaken at key mile...

• Perform Change Management using Project Management Software

  1 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Perform Change Management - Change Management ProcessA Change Management Process is a method using project management templates by which changes to the project scope, deliverables, timescales or reso...

• Process Review Form for Project Manager

  28 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Process Review FormThis form is used to assess the level of quality of the project management template management processes undertaken during the course of the project. Process Reviews are undertaken...

• Deliverable Project Manager Review Form

  25 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Deliverable Project Manager Review FormThis form is used to assess the level of quality of the deliverables using Project Management Templates being created for the client. Deliverable Reviews are un...

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  Project Management Methodologies

• Project Management Methodology Standards Service

  7 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Which PMOs should provide the Promote Standards Service?All PMO's will promote standards because all PMO's seek to standardize project management methodology methods. The service usually launc...

• Promote Project Management Methodology Standards Service

  3 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Define the Promote Standards ServiceFollow the four steps shown in this diagram using your a href=http://www.method123.comProject Management Templates/a to define the key features of the Promote Stand...

• The Project Management Methodology Document

  31 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

  The Project Management Methodology DocumentHere are solutions to the most common weaknesses in the methodology document:- Clarification. By responding to feedback, the PMO Project Management Template ...

• Improve the Implement Project Management Methodology

  27 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Improve the Implement Project Management Methodology ServiceThe same three aspects of the methodology that can be evaluated can be improved:- Implementation. - The project management template methodo...

• Evaluate the Implement Project Management Methodology Service

  24 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Evaluate the Implement Project Management Methodology ServiceThere are three components of this service to evaluate:- Implementation. Is the methodology reaching everyone who needs to use it? Is it ea...

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  Muecs Blog

• How to Get Traffic to Your Blog In 7 Steps

  4 Feb 2010 | 5:48 pm

   If you are trying to learn how to get traffic to your blog, then you will benefit from the tips in this series, which are designed to show you the necessary steps for how to get traffic to your blog. When you have the right tips, tricks and resources in your arsenal, then that is when you can truly be successful in gaining traffic to your blog. There are twenty tips in all that you need to keep in mind when it comes to learning how to increase blog traffic. In the first post of this series we touched on the first seven, followed by an additional six in the next post, and here are the…

• Social Media with Financial Education is it work?

  26 Jan 2010 | 3:42 pm

  Social media being used for educational purposes. It’s not a new concept, but it is continuously being used for new applications. among the most recent is the use of social media for educating consumers about money management. it’s not just individual financial planners that have turned to social media for this reason, but the companies themselves. Amidst legal issues and user privacy concern lies a hope that the financial industry as a whole can regain the trust of the American consumer base, turning to social media for marketing and brand-building goals. Doing so could be a…

• Social Media and Marketing on Business View

  20 Jan 2010 | 5:51 pm

  So what’s the lesson here? The lesson here is that before deciding if social media is going to work for you, and telling any company that you are working with that you want your site/blog/whatever tied into it, do some research. Here are a few things to do first: Define your customer – industry, age, geographic area, etc. Find out where your customers “live.” Are they online? Do they go to tradeshows or read magazines? Do they subscribe to eNewsletters? Do they use Twitter? Look at the demographics of the potential social networks you might get involved in. At a…

• 2010 Jan Mulaboration updated Part 2 Customer Care on Twitter

  16 Jan 2010 | 9:38 am

  Continue this blog post from last time we talk about new features added in Mulaboration, we are introducing the Search & Follow Up for Twitter in Network Leads.  Let's start with Search & Follow Up first, as we mentioned about Mulaboration, it is a collaboration tool for enterprise with social media integration. We are mostly focusing on HOW enterprise like you guys to communicate with colleagues and business partners in a secure social style platform, and HOW your company could have a better tool to start marketing over the popular social media web sites.  By having a…

• Things you should know for Facebook Marketing

  13 Jan 2010 | 5:30 pm

  This post is credited by Social Media Examiner I’m guessing many of you are still sitting on the fence when it comes to putting your business on Facebook. “Let me get this straight,” you may say. “You want me to use Facebook to market my business? Are you crazy?” Not if you provide products or services to postmenopausal women. Women over the age of 55 make up the fastest-growing Facebook segment, according to Paul Dunay and Richard Krueger, authors of Facebook Marketing for Dummies.  Would your product or service appeal to anyone over 35? “The…