http://www.project-management-blog.com Project management and other news from your pals at Journyx Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en World-class leaders have the personal resolve and willpower to create effective plans and the organization to implement their strategies. They energize their organizations through these plans. They act decisively. They assess and adjust their plans constantly on the basis of sound situational awareness and outer directed information gathering. This level of ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/23/leadership-strategies-how-to-lead-your-organizationthrough-thick-and-thin-and-achieve-your-goals/ Fair warning: Journyx is based in Texas, the 4th hottest place on earth. Also, it's the middle of July. And yet I am about to complain about the heat. If I were to read a piece written by someone in upstate New York that complained ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/21/unseasonable-unreasonable/ IT certifications are one way to distinguish between well-trained job candidates and prospects whose skills on specific hardware or software aren’t quite up to par. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to work. In recent times, however, an overabundance of certifications and widespread cheating on exams caused in part by ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/18/beware-of-it-certification-scams/ Managing technology projects can be one of the most challenging arenas of project management. Ironically, it is rarely the technology itself that presents obstacles for the technical project manager. Being mindful of the most common traps that await the unsuspecting project manager can help ensure your technical projects don’t end ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/16/avoiding-the-top-five-traps-of-technical-project-management/ Long before that, I was working at another firm where we did fixed cost software development work for a client. They paid us $300,000 and we delivered a ported hunk of code. We had underbid quite a bit, which was partly due to inaccurate specifications of the work ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/14/feeling-the-heat-part-2/ I have spent most of the last twenty years researching, studying, writing and speaking about Time Management and Personal Productivity. I have learned a whole lot and my full-time mission now is to share that knowledge through my writings, seminars, consulting and keynotes with people who want to get more ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/11/time-management-secrets/ The debate over whether to run IT like a business is hot right now. Before implementing a new management structure into a department, it is important to understand that each part of a business affects the others. Phyllis Post, Senior Director, Global Business Planning & Management, Corporate IT, Merck & Co., ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/09/portfolio-management-of-it/ Once upon a time - a long, long time ago - Journyx was in trouble. We were out of cash and we were out of time. A large customer had just backed out of a huge purchase that we thought was in the bag. An investor that we ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/07/feeling-the-heat-part-1/ For project managers, "no" is often the toughest word in the English language to deploy. We often prefer the classic PM strategy of "Yes, but..." as the softer, kinder, gentler alternative. "No" sounds harsh. Uncooperative. It sounds reticent and recalcitrant. It sounds negative. And yet, for many of us, the ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/04/the-hardest-word-in-the-project-management-vocabulary/ The PMBOK defines Risk Management as “The systematic process of identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk”. That being said, what is project risk? A project risk is an event that, if it occurs, causes either a positive or negative impact on a project. Not to be confused with ... http://www.project-management-blog.com/2008/07/02/risk-management-%e2%80%93-need-it-or-want-it/