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From the basic to the complex, our gurus help you with the "How To's" for all your PM projects.

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Triage for PPM in Peril
- by Michael Wood (July 12, 2011)
When something goes rotten in your PMO or project portfolio, all of your projects may be in jeopardy. The best way to handle crisis across multiple projects is to treat it like the train wreck it appears to be. Take a lesson from the medical community and triage the damage before you start trying to treat the wounded.

Working With a Leaner IT Organization
- by Michael Wood
When the economy demands that you trim your IT organization, the bulky, overstaffed groups are to be envied. They have plenty of room to cut and look like heroes of sacrifice. For those of us who are already running lean, there seems to be nowhere to go. Here are some ideas on how you can still tighten up, even when you're already running lean and mean.

Total Quality
- by Sunil Sharma
Read on for some help in instilling total quality in software development processes.

Finding the Requirements Tree (Part 2)
- by Michael R. Wood
The secret to rapidly capturing requirements lays in understanding the business processes that the application is suppose to leverage and support. And it is in the gap between how things work today and how they need to work to achieve core business objectives that the fruit of the requirements tree can be harvested.

Finding the Requirements Tree
- by Michael R. Wood
The secret to rapidly capturing requirements lays in understanding the business processes that the application is suppose to leverage and support. And it is in the gap between how things work today and how they need to work to achieve core business objectives that the fruit of the requirements tree can be harvested.

Change Management and the EVA Road Show
- by Andrew Makar, PMP
Motivating an organization to incorporate earned value into their culture is an exercise in change management. Effectively managing change isn't an easy process--and rolling out EVA throughout an organization can be challenging. Applying the following change management activities to your EVA implementation can help improve its adoption.

International Intrigue
- by Jacqueline Dasso Haddad, PMP
Imagine you just got assigned to an international project. Nothing could be more intriguing than the thought of working in a foreign country, eating different foods and learning different customs. Read on for help in the initiating and planning phases on international projects.

Code Yellow
- by Sainath Nagarajan, PMP
Have you been at project meetings where the project manager consistently puts the project status at "yellow" even though you see progress being made? Or do you happen to be one of those project managers that believe driving through the yellow light is the safest way to drive your projects? Here's why you should reconsider this practice...

Going for PM Gold
- by Scott Kinney
Who needs the Olympics when the challenges of project management keep you training all year round? Stay focused--and find out which Olympic sport most resembles project management--by reading this article.

Time Management
- by Tim Rahschulte
Is it a useful discussion or just another exercise in frustration? Learn how to effectively manage your day and your life before more precious minutes get wasted.



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