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Project Management 411

Archive for December 2008

December 31st, 2008

Using Social Media to Build Your Virtual Project Management Team (part 3)

Make sure that you check out the other articles in this series: Part 1 | Part 2
As a project manager, I have learned to deal with the hard lessons straight-on so that I could learn from them. Some of the hard lessons that I’ve learned have been…

Hiring the wrong person for me team. If this [...]

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December 30th, 2008

Using Social Media to Build Your Virtual Project Management Team (part 2)

Make sure that you check out the other articles in this series: Part 1
Virtual project management teams are also a good way to save cost in regard to travel and time. Instead of having overhead cost for an office location, I’ve been able to invest the monies that would have gone towards this expense into [...]

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December 29th, 2008

Using Social Media to Build Your Virtual Project Management Team (part 1)

As a virtual project manager, I have been able to build my team through the use of Social Media networks. I have mostly used Twitter to develop my team and have found it very useful. You can definitely find excellent resources using social media networks. Just a word of caution that you should use the [...]

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December 20th, 2008

Project Management and the New Year, part 1

Have you found yourself at the end of a year full of busyness and projects, yet feel that you haven’t accomplished everything? Well, join the crowd because as I listen to many who manage projects, it has been a year of ups and downs. To get a handle on things, I have decided for the [...]

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December 19th, 2008

Rapid Application Development (RAD) & Project Management

Spending several years as a technical project manager in Corporate America, I used Rapid Application Development (RAD) on many technical projects. RAD is a process used to encourage user interaction through the use of prototypes as an application project is being developed. Now as a website developer, I may use RAD on many projects because [...]

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December 17th, 2008

Project Management and ROI: What’s in it For You?

As a project manager, I am always concerned about the return on investment (ROI) when managing a project. The basic idea behind ROI is the financial rewards or payoff for a specific product or project that you may have undertaken. When evaluating a product or project, I take into account the future benefits of a [...]

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December 17th, 2008

Project Management Certification: Is It Right For You?

As you begin delving into a project management career, you may be faced with many questions. One of those questions is “should you complete the certification process”. It all depends on the project management environment that you work in.
To help you make your decision, I want to share the top 10 reasons why the Project [...]

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December 3rd, 2008

Software Review: Zoho Projects

In test project management software, the next review centers on a one-stop website called Zoho. The project management software is called “Projects” and it even integrates with Google login or you can use Yahoo login along with creating one on their website. This makes it very easy to login since you don’t have to remember [...]

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December 1st, 2008

Using Project Management for you holiday shopping?

Being creative while holiday shopping among the masses is a necessity. One of the ways that you can achieve this is by using project management planning. I know, it sounds strange but in reality it may make your life a little simpler during this holiday season.
Let’s use the Deming Cycle: PDCA method that I shared [...]

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