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Leverage your information to thrive - Your complete guide to best practice in information management
Help your company thrive in today's economy by learning how to leverage its most valuable asset: information. Read more in this eye-opening eBook....
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Date: June 2009 |
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10 management techniques we'd love to see
If you've ever been the victim of a trendy, totally ineffective management style, you know how silly and arbitrary those techniques can be. Justin James has seen his shar...
Company: Justin James
Date: March 2009 |
Justin James |
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Project and Scope Creep Minimization Checklist
Here's a comprehensive checklist IT project managers and consultants can review to help minimize project management feature and scope creep. Whether working with internal...
Company: TechRepublic Pro
Date: March 2009 |
TechRepublic Pro |
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10 ways to get a slipping project back on track
Plenty of things can derail a project plan: underestimated tasks, departing staff, misallocated resources. Here are some practical techniques that can correct the directi...
Company: Tom Mochal
Date: October 2008 |
Tom Mochal |
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IT project portfolio management tool
Stay on top of your project portfolio with the help of this sample project management tool from seasoned IT leader Jay Rollins. For more information on classifyin...
Company: Jay Rollins
Date: October 2008 |
Jay Rollins |
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Project business case template
Before your stakeholders can prioritize a list of projects, it's critical to pull together the key information they can use for decision-making. This template will give y...
Company: Jay Rollins
Date: October 2008 |
Jay Rollins |
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Presentation: How to prioritize your company's projects
Successfully managing a project portfolio entails getting approval on projects that match strategic objectives, prioritizing approved projects, fostering a sense of owner...
Company: Jay Rollins
Date: October 2008 |
Jay Rollins |
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Use this presentation to plot your organization's projects
Classifying your projects will help you ensure that they're aligned with your company's business goals. Jay Rollins classifies projects as infrastructure, transactional, ...
Company: Jay Rollins
Date: October 2008 |
Jay Rollins |
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Track Project Requirements
Tracking requirements, one of your projects greatest assets, can get complicated quickly if you are not careful. However, a few simple tools, and the suggestions here, ...
Company: TechRepublic Pro
Date: September 2008 |
TechRepublic Pro |
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Virtual environment documentation made easy
Having a clear and concise piece of documentation gives an edge of professionalism to any task. While using Visio like this surely gives the eye candy, it also delivers q...
Company: TechRepublic Pro
Date: April 2008 |
TechRepublic Pro |
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IT Hiring Kit: Project Manager
Updated with all new content!
Our IT Hiring Kit for Project Managers will help you interview, evaluate, and select suitable candidates for a project manager p...
Company: TechRepublic Pro
Date: April 2008 |
TechRepublic Pro |
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Mining project requirements -- techniques to use before and after an interview
Conducting a good interview to gather project requirements can be a daunting task -- particularly if you are interviewing a stakeholder who holds a high position in th...
Company: Joe Goss
Date: March 2008 |
Joe Goss |
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Sustain and broaden customer focus outside of your projects
As a project manager or business analyst, you have an important role outside the scope of customer projects. Your work outside the context of projects helps to identif...
Company: Joe Goss
Date: January 2008 |
Joe Goss |
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Create and sustain a customer focus within projects
Whether the clients you serve are inside or outside your organization, creating and sustaining customer focus is crucial to your success as an IT department. As a proj...
Company: Joe Goss
Date: January 2008 |
Joe Goss |
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10 techniques for gathering requirements
It's difficult to build a solution if you don't know the requirements. The "elicitation" step is where the requirements are first gathered from the client, and there are ...
Company: Tom Mochal
Date: January 2008 |
Tom Mochal |
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Help your analysis team draft an actionable detailed use case
An analysis team writes detailed use cases to describe the steps and characteristics of business processes. While use cases are often a central feature of a software r...
Company: Joe Goss
Date: December 2007 |
Joe Goss |
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Increase your software project's chances of success by practicing outside-in development
Outside-in software development is a way of thinking about building software that keeps your team's focus and energy on the people who will ultimately engage with and ben...
Company: IBM Press
Date: October 2007 |
IBM Press |
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Categorize high-level requirements into use case titles for better project management
Many business analysts use Unified Modeling Language use case diagrams to identify the actors and their high-level actions in a system. These diagrams help an analysis...
Company: Joe Goss
Date: October 2007 |
Joe Goss |
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Facilitate a meeting to define what success looks like for your project
Although most projects start enthusiastically, optimism fades quickly unless an analysis and design team gets traction and learns where it is going. Working from a pro...
Company: Joe Goss
Date: September 2007 |
Joe Goss |
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10 signs that you aren't cut out to be a project manager
You've all seen top 10 lists of the best traits of a project manager or the top 10 skills of a project manager. However, project management is not for everyone. Many peop...
Company: Tom Mochal
Date: September 2007 |
Tom Mochal |
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Get to know Microsoft Project and the project management domain
Explore using Microsoft Project within the domain of project management in this chapter download from Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Project 2007. Iden...
Company: Que Publishing
Date: September 2007 |
Que Publishing |
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Use a project dashboard to monitor your project's progress, course-correct more easily, and steer your project to success
The key to understanding a project is to make regular measurements, both quantitative and qualitative, then to display the measurements publicly. When project manag...
Company: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: August 2007 |
Pragmatic Bookshelf |
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Successfully build a complex Web site with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3: Start with a comprehensive project plan
Attempting to create a complex Web site without proper planning would be like taking a trip from New York to California without the benefit of road maps. You may know...
Company: Que Publishing
Date: August 2007 |
Que Publishing |
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Plan and schedule your project the pragmatic way
A pragmatic project manager knows that there are many possible "right" ways to schedule a project, and that an initial project plan will always evolve as the projec...
Company: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: August 2007 |
Pragmatic Bookshelf |
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Does moral intelligence lead to business success?
There is a powerful correlation between strong moral principles and business success, or so the authors of Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and...
Company: Wharton School Publishing
Date: August 2007 |
Wharton School Publishing |
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Catch the rhythm of effective project execution and lead your IT projects to success
Having performed a project at some time during your career doesn't automatically make you a project manager. Yet an understanding of project management is essential...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: August 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Demystify Microsoft Office Project
Microsoft Office Project is a very powerful project scheduling tool that enables you to easily review and track the effort, dates, and dependencies of your project activi...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: July 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Effectively implement improved process solutions in your company based on industry best practices
Implementing the IBM Rational Unified Process and Solutions: A Guide to Improving Your Software Development Capability and Maturity is a hands-on roadmap for a...
Company: IBM Press
Date: July 2007 |
IBM Press |
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Help your organization fulfill its potential and sustain success via self-leadership
Organizational leadership is not a one-size-fits-all proposition, it requires attention to context and the judicious application of both high-level and "micro"-leve...
Company: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: June 2007 |
Prentice Hall PTR |
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Avoid common management pitfalls that can lead a good company to go bad
Why do good companies go bad? Archival research on companies that have failed in the past several decades and interviews with people from these failed companies lea...
Company: Wharton School Publishing
Date: June 2007 |
Wharton School Publishing |
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Build quality assurance and enterprise integration into every development project
"Feature complete" is not the same as "production ready." Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship or your Web site read...
Company: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: May 2007 |
Pragmatic Bookshelf |
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Top project management resources: Best of Tom Mochal
For years, Tom Mochal has been sharing his project management strategies and advice with TechRepublic members. We've rounded up more than 20 of his tips and articles here...
Company: Tom Mochal
Date: May 2007 |
Tom Mochal |
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Mix love and business: Lessons from successful companies that do good while doing well
Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose is about the pragmatic role of love in the business world. The book celebrate...
Company: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: May 2007 |
Prentice Hall PTR |
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Supercharge your career by adopting the key attributes of outstanding leadership
Nightly Business Report Presents Long Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times documents and analyzes the key attr...
Company: Wharton School Publishing
Date: May 2007 |
Wharton School Publishing |
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Meet the toughest challenges of corporate leadership by strengthening your skills in these seven key areas
Corporate leaders, managers, and aspiring managers will benefit from this "behind closed doors" tour of the landscape of leadership. In this sample chapter from ...
Company: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: April 2007 |
Prentice Hall PTR |
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Build a communicating, cooperative software development team
Successful software projects require that the members of development teams notice important events and to be both willing and able to communicate to others what the...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: April 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Successfully execute IT projects by using integrated project plans and standards for measurements
Chapter four of CMMI for Outsourcing: Guidelines for Software, Systems, and IT Acquisition outlines how to execute projects using integrated project plans an...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: April 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Trade meaningless action for lasting traction: Adopt these strategies for organizational change and personal success
Too often in the workplace, it seems that being productive is less important than being seen as productive. But we all want and can trade the treadmill of endless, ...
Company: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: April 2007 |
Prentice Hall PTR |
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Take a practical approach to cultural transformation in your company--and discover what it can do for your bottom line
As a manager, have you ever made changes to processes, procedures, measures, or incentives, but failed to see the desired improvement in performance? Have you ever ...
Company: IBM Press
Date: March 2007 |
IBM Press |
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Foster excellence and innovation within your software development team with these strategies
Learn why software development teams are needed, explore the innovative nature of development work, and identify the conditions required for teams to do such work i...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: February 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Back to the future: Are software development methods trending backwards, and is that a good thing?
Discover the treasure buried in the early history of software development in this sample chapter from No Fluff, Just Stuff 2006 Anthology. Programmer Glenn V...
Company: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: January 2007 |
Pragmatic Bookshelf |
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