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Working With a Leaner IT Organization
- by Michael Wood
(April 7, 2009)
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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.
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Total Quality
- by Sunil Sharma
(May 14, 2007)
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Read on for some help in instilling total quality in software development processes.
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Finding the Requirements Tree (Part 2)
- by Michael R. Wood
(October 23, 2006)
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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.
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Finding the Requirements Tree
- by Michael R. Wood
(October 17, 2006)
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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.
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Change Management and the EVA Road Show
- by Andrew Makar, PMP
(February 21, 2006)
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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.
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International Intrigue
- by Jacqueline Dasso Haddad, PMP
(February 1, 2006)
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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.
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Code Yellow
- by Sainath Nagarajan, PMP
(November 30, 2005)
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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...
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Going for PM Gold
- by Scott Kinney
(August 26, 2004)
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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.
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Time Management
- by Tim Rahschulte
(May 26, 2004)
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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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Negotiation For Project Managers Part 3: Experiences From the Real World
- by Srinath Nagarajan
(May 10, 2004)
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In our first two parts, we discussed the basic tenets of negotiation and covered some process ground by discussing five strategies that project managers could use to become better negotiators. In this concluding installment, we will examine real-world negotiation strategies and experiences. This part covers practical negotiation tips and strategies from practitioners of the art--you will be reading tips on what works and what does not.
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