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Bruce Benson Successful Projects Are Boring!

The problem with being a good project manager, or any kind of good manager, is that often your project or organization is running along too smoothly. You stay on top of the issues and continuously improve the way you do things based upon feedback from your team and customers. You are pro-active and the organization sees you as a good sol
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Added by Bruce Benson on September 2, 2010 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Margaret Meloni Conflict Takes Courage

Some time ago there was an unfortunate incident at a military base in the United States. I am talking about Fort Hood. An individual started shooting people. Within hearing range of the shooting a graduation ceremony was taking place. Attending the graduation were medics and other trained personnel. In the midst of this sad crisis, something interesting happened. Many of the participants in the graduation ceremony heard the gunfire and dropped everything and ran towards it. Maybe it was their tr… Continue

Added by Margaret Meloni on August 30, 2010 at 11:31am — No Comments

Atrijit Dasgupta Bridging the Gap

The following is from my blog at
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Added by Atrijit Dasgupta on August 29, 2010 at 8:33am — No Comments

Safinaaz Rawji Six Common Mistakes Project Managers Can Make

There are six

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Added by Safinaaz Rawji on August 27, 2010 at 11:11pm — No Comments

Susan Lyle Dodia A Quick Primer on Social Media for Project Managers

Let’s start with a definition of social media. According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media) (and that’s an obvious place to go for inf

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Added by Susan Lyle Dodia on August 25, 2010 at 3:24pm — No Comments

Bruce Benson Project Managers Repeat After Me: Software Development Is A Repeatable Process

I had a job interview for VP of Development. The interviewing VP with a long history in the industry asked me a simple question: Did I think software development was a repeatable process? I said yes. I won’t describe the ensuing discussion except to say I didn’t get the job. We didn’t even get to talk about project management tools!

Softw
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Added by Bruce Benson on August 23, 2010 at 12:16pm — No Comments

Kim Laycock Kims Big Year - Request for votes.

I am a contestant in the Your Big Year competition, to win a year long ambassadorship around the world, on behalf of the Smaller Earth Organisation.

I am currently playing the vote for me game and I am in first position overall. I need to stay in the top six until voting closes in October to secure my place in the finals in Liverpool in Novemeber..

I have employed a number of strategies to attain this goal.

  • internet networki
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Added by Kim Laycock on August 23, 2010 at 10:25am — No Comments

Rakesh Sangani ING creates shared services infrastructure

Global Dutch Bank, ING, is designing a shared network and IT services infrastructure for its global banking operations, as it prepares to separate its insurance operations from the
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Added by Rakesh Sangani on August 23, 2010 at 5:48am — No Comments

Rakesh Sangani Final Thought: Qualifications and Shared Services

Shared services are evolving! It started as an initiative, then developed into a trend, and now is being considered as a certified qualification. The times when organisations provi
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Added by Rakesh Sangani on August 20, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

ibrahim project time management

Time is a valuable resource. It is also the scarcest. Once time passes, it is never again to be recouped. A project manager must be skillful in managing her time and the time of the team.

The easiest way to manage time effective is scheduling activities. A schedule activity is a discrete scheduled component of work performed during the course of a project according to the PMBOK. In order to have a schedule activity, one needs to have an estimated duration, cost, and resource requiremen

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Added by ibrahim on August 20, 2010 at 1:52pm — No Comments

Russ Kovar JobAngels / Sterlite Software USA - Premier Spotlight Sponsor

Sterlite Software is a premier supporter of JobAngels, a nationally recognized social networking group supporting millions of job seekers.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like additional information about JobAngels or how you can participate.

Sterlite was recently spotlighted:

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Added by Russ Kovar on August 20, 2010 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Rakesh Sangani China gives tax break to service outsourcing firms

China will exempt service outsourcing companies from business tax from July 1 until the end of 2013 to boost their expansion, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Added by Rakesh Sangani on August 19, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

Chris Gayner Diageo’s Hybrid Model in (a Little) More Detail

This article is Part 2 in a series looking at Diageo Business Services, winner of the SSON Award for “Best Mature Captive 2010”…..

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Added by Chris Gayner on August 17, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Chris Gayner Improving End-to-End Processes

Oscar Vincenti, Business Process Manager at CEMEX USA, tells SSON more about improving End-to-End processes, the Process Management Service Approach and what he expects from the Finance Transformation 2010 conference…...

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Added by Chris Gayner on August 17, 2010 at 6:59am — No Comments

Rakesh Sangani New South Wales reveal Shared Service blueprint

Australia’s New South Wales Government has revealed a blueprint for how it plans to restructure its ICT and other shared service operations over the next two years. The 181-page bl
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Added by Rakesh Sangani on August 17, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

Bogdan Gorka Project Communication Plan - How to prepare for it?


The common purpose of the project communication plan is to ensure that all project stakeholders are informed about the project in a way that they find attractive and appropriate according to their role and i… Continue

Added by Bogdan Gorka on August 16, 2010 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Bruce Lofland Does a Technical Project Need a Technical Project Manager?

The following is from my blog at http://blog.pmtechnix.com

Many organizations believe that projects of a technical nature (IT, engineering, etc.) need a project manager with technical expertise. The technical expert can manage the project since they obviously know what they are doing. The problem with this is the assumption that a technical expert is both capable and willing to manage people, schedules, and budgets too. This may b

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Added by Bruce Lofland on August 16, 2010 at 12:46pm — No Comments

Cindy Vandersleen Requirements group sessions – blank canvass or blind chaos?

In my final article on requirements development, I want to discuss the processes involves in eliciting requirements from business stakeholders. There are several commonly held techniques that are used for gathering requirements from business customers. Some of these methods are specific to software systems or systems with some type of user interface, and some are applicable to any type of deliverable:

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Added by Cindy Vandersleen on August 13, 2010 at 10:57pm — No Comments

Safinaaz Rawji Software Project Estimation

Estimating the duration of a task can be difficult. Doing this for a project can be gargantuan. It is not surprising that project estimation is one of the top reasons for failure. Your stakeholders are expecting some tangible deliverable on a pre-defined date you promised hence delivering anytime after that (no matter how complete the project is with all the bells and whistles) is regarded as a failure.

I personally use a three point technique when it comes to project/task estimation.

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Added by Safinaaz Rawji on August 7, 2010 at 12:00am — 5 Comments

Chris Gayner Reaping the Benefits of E-Invoicing

SSON interviews Holger Hannover, IT & Organization Manager at TOTAL Germany and discovers how the organization has improved invoice process handling time by centralizing and automating invoice processes…..

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Added by Chris Gayner on August 5, 2010 at 9:27am — No Comments

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