Project Management Blogs

Eye on the Workforce - by Joe Wynne From big workforce issues to interpersonal interactions, we'll look for the latest and most effective solutions. Project Management 2.0 - by Dave Garrett New technologies, concepts, and Web 2.0 tools are popping up everywhere. How can you use them to help your project team collaborate, communicate - or just give your project an extra boost? [Contact Dave] Just My Thoughts - by Michael Wood It's time to rethink the way we approach IT. For too long IT has been allowed to exist dysfunctionally within the enterprise on many levels. From CIO relationships to fundemental understanding on how to plan, build and support the needs of the business IT has been allowed to be more art than science.... What follows are my thoughts on a variety of topics within the IT space. GigaBizByte - by Sunil Sharma Ruminations about business of IT, new concepts, convergence of IT, PM and entrepreneurship and many other similar or dissimilar idiosyncratic ideas SOUNDING OFF - by bob weinstein You can learn a lot by observing and asking questions. But to shake things up, you have to get real ticked off about the important things that need fixing. The dangerous alternative is complacency. Project Management For Real - by Mark Mullaly Since 2001, the column "Project Management in Practice" has been read by thousands of visitors to gantthead.com. Mark Mullaly has offered his insights, perspectives and observations about what really happens in organizations on a (mostly) monthly basis. The column confronts head-on the challenges that project managers confront on a regular basis, and strives to make sense of what happens when projects and organizations collide. This blog takes a closer look at what happens when we try to manage projects “for real”. What really works, and what really doesn’t. The MS Project Zone - by Rich Eaton You unlock this door with the keys of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension not only of scope, cost and schedule, but also one of frustration. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things real and imagined. There’s the signpost ahead. You’ve just crossed over into The MS Project Zone recent posts Follow The Money?   from   The MS Project Zone Consider today the plight of a small band of guides who have, once again, found themselves in another dimension of … The MS Project Zone.  The guides have been to the deepest, darkest corners of The M ... Posted By: Rich Eaton on May 14, 2008 01:27 PM Finally an Easy Tactic for Performance Improvement 2   from   Eye on the Workforce The easy universal tactic to improve performance is to establish high standards. OK, so how to you “establish” them correctly? There is a trick. According to the researchers, you have to be genuine an ... Posted By: Joe Wynne on May 13, 2008 10:20 PM Scrappy Project Management   from   Project Management 2.0 Situation: You're tired of guiding new PMs with templates.Kim Wiefling is a scrappy project manager - no doubt about it.  Whether you're listening to a voice mail from her, reading an email she sent, ... Posted By: Dave Garrett on May 12, 2008 05:17 PM Emergency 911   from   The people side of project management One of my current clients has a lot of small, ad hoc requests that need to be completed by the development team.  We've introduced a process and SLA for tracking and executing these requests, but it d ... Posted By: Andy Jordan on May 12, 2008 01:01 PM What Really Makes You a Leader?   from   Project Management 2.0 Situation: You're in a mood to Show off your leadership skills...There are LOTS of great discussions happening right now in the new Leadership GIG.  As a part of that, I thought it would be interestin ... Posted By: Dave Garrett on May 12, 2008 11:42 AM

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