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Managers - Match Project Manager to Project Type
Experienced project managers will have developed and honed their project management approach. Match those skills and strengths to the type of project for best results.
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Project Planning and Estimating for Managers
Project planning requires good project estimating to produce an achievable project schedule and a greater chance of on-time delivery. Managers should guide the process.
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Guide to a Project Plan for Project Managers
Project planning is the essential task of a project manager; if the planning is wrong everything is wrong. The result is a project plan, a blueprint for future action.
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Managing Scope in Projects
The management of project scope is one of the most frequently overlooked issues in project management but is one that should be ignored at an organisation's peril.
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Project Cost Management
Including a line item in the project budget for team bonuses can be a highly effective way to keep costs under control without adding anything to the budget.
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Project Planning, Estimation and Time Allocation
Project planning requires good project estimates for a realistic project schedule; that realism will be enhanced by allocating enough time to the schedule.
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What Is Project Management?
Projects are attractive because they provide variety and the satisfaction of completion but they require a high level of organizational skill and discipline to manage.
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Beginners Guide to AutoCAD - Lesson 3, Drawing Correctly
This is a discourse on the reasons behind drafting correctly and the the expenses of poor drafting.
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Earned Value Management
Earned value management is the art of separating a project into discrete tasks, dividing the budget among the tasks and graphing completion to objectively chart progress.
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A Process for Playwriting
Companies in the manufacturing industry generally follow repeatable and efficient processes to create their products. Software development does, too. So why shouldn't playwriting also have a repeatable process to make the creation of scripts more effective?
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Building a Successful Project Team
Choosing the most capable people for a project team is vital to the success of a project.
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Celebrity Apprentice – Week One
Gene Simmons, Omarosa, Carol Alt, and others sell hot dogs to help raise money for charity. One person is voted off.
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Celebrity Apprentice – Week Two
Gene Simmons and Nely Galán lead their teams in creating a thirty-second television commercial. One celebrity is fired.
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Documentation in Projects
Retaining an audit trail is a particularly important aspect of Project Management. Failure to do so can lead to serious issues regarding accountability and project scope.
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Guide to a Successful Project for Managers
Managers must focus on the vital few things such as benefits, scope, requirements, business change management and testing that they control and really matter to success.
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Guide to Project Planning of Project Closure
Project planning extends to the end of the project to ensure an uneventful transition of the software solution to those responsible for its ongoing operational support.
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Project Change Management
Given that a project is a dynamic process, it is unrealistic to assume that requests for change in projects will not occur, but this need not be cause for undue concern.
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Project Management Made Easy for Managers
Project managers should use the discipline of project management to achieve project objectives. Managers should understand the essential ideas to use it successfully.
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Project Sponsorship
The Project Sponsor is more than a figurehead. It is a vital role on a Project and an effective Sponsor can be the difference between success and failure.
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Software Product / Project Development Life Cycle
Vicki shares a closely guarded secret with you - The Product Life Cycle. This is an intensive look at policy, standards, and steps necessary for a successfully coded, tested, and documented product.
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Celebrity Apprentice – Week Four
Marilu Henner and Vincent Pastore use their theater connections to help sell tickets to Broadway shows like Spring Awakening and Spamalot. One celebrity is eliminated.
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Celebrity Apprentice – Week Three
The rocker tries to get Empresario a win, while Tito Ortiz leads Team Hydra in a challenge for Kodak.
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Creating a Risk Management Plan
Creating a plan that describes how you will perform risk management helps ensure success.
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Managing Communication in Projects
Communication is very often the most easily forgotten aspect of project managment, but it's critical to any hope of a successful outcome.
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Write a Script With No Plan?
Though I often tout the effectiveness of having a solid plan when creating a script, many writers tell me they want to write freely, without being rigidly controlled.
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Beginning a Documentation Project
Find out what Vicki considers are the do's and don'ts of starting a documentation project.
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Celebrity Apprentice – Week Seven
Apprentice history is made with a surprising outcome.
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Setting Corporate Goals and Objectives
Project management is more important than people give it credit for, and effective goal and objective setting can make the difference between success and failure.
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Some of Possible Solutions to the 2000 Problem (4)
Discuses several solutions to the year 2000 problem
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The Book Production Process
Copyediting, proofreading, typesetting and project management provide crucial steps in preparing a manuscript for publication.
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What Does Your Brand Say?
What does your brand indicate about your company? Here are some points to ponder.
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Celebrity Apprentice
Fourteen of the most well known people in sports, television, modeling, and music have come on board for the seventh season of The Apprentice.
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DTP Source Evaluation
Half the battle of a localization is a meticulous analysis of the source documentation. This article describes the process for analyzing the DTP component of the source document in broad strokes.
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What is Time Management?
Every employee needs time management skills to improve productivity. Learn what cognitive skills are needed to create the executive function of successful time management
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Annual Copenhagen Cooking Festival
From 22-31 August, the Danish capital hosts the 4th annual Copenhagen Cooking Festival with gourmet restaurants, family activities, a cooking school and wine tastings.
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Marine Debris Mapping in Louisiana
The 2005 storm season left huge amounts of wreckage behind for waterfront residents living along the Gulf of Mexico that is hazardous to navigation and wildlife.
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Project Initiation - Starting in the Right Way
Before a project formally begins the stakeholders must understand what business problems are being solved, what benefits will be achieved and therefore what the scope is.
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Telephone Conference Calls to Manage Meetings
Telephone conference meetings allow multiple participants to engage in sales presentations, project meetings, weekly team meetings, training , and monthly team meetings.
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An Example of Project Risk Management Planning
Project risk management planning requires thinking through the risks and applying risk mitigation strategies. Managing project risk is essential for a successful project.
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Book Review: Don't Make Me Think
Understanding how to create websites for your users and tools to monitor that what you have built is working is what this book is all about by Steve Krug.
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Five Easy Steps to do Risk Management
You can perform simple risk management techniques that will decrease the chances of bad things happening and increase the chances of good things happening.
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How to Market a Business
To effectively market a firm, here are ten key points to consider.
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How to Work as an Off-Site Technical Writer
Vicki gives you some inside tips on turning an on-site technical writing gig into an off-site one.
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Identify Project Risks Early and Plan Response
Identify project risks early by looking at scope, people interaction and project approach. Assess the risk probability and potential impact to create a mitigation plan.
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In Memory 2001 - Mystery Writers Gone But Not Forgotten
Mystery writers who died in 2001.
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Interviewing Developers
Your relationship with developers and engineers is one of your most valued assets. Develop that relationship in highly-focused technical interviews.
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Learning New Skills Through Volunteering
Why not use your volunteer activities as a way to learn new skills that might lead to a new career?

Manage Project Requirements Analysis and Design
Project management of software requirements must be managed to ensure right inputs result in the right outputs. Managers as well as the project manager are responsible.
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Managing Small Projects
How to manage small, internal projects in your company
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Managing Your Internet Site
A lot of work goes into creating a content-managed website and managing the day to day operations of the site. Governance teams are critical to success in both instances.
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