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• How to help your team focus on details, avoid errors

  When your project managers start letting important details slip, you can usually blame three culprits: fatigue, overfamiliarity, or poor morale. See how you can remedy these problems.

• IT field guide: Survival without a leader

  If you find yourself without a leader, take a cue from Private John Winger, from the classic 1981 movie Stripes: Learn to rely on yourself and your team to get the job done.

• Is your career still on the critical path?

  Project managers often spend long hours planning projects and managing team goals but often fall short when it comes to their own career.

• Avoid 'he said, she said' post-project reviews

  Try not to think of a post-project review as a postmortem, even though you might sometimes feel like putting past efforts six feet under.

• A feasibility study: Can you manage it?

  A feasibility study differs from typical project management in that it's primarily designed to minimise risk instead of maximising resources.

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• Uggh, the project's gone pear-shaped?

  It's that moment you've always dreaded--a project being managed by the IT department has gone horribly wrong. How can you set in place damage control so things don't get much, much worse?

• How to help your team focus on details, avoid errors

  When your project managers start letting important details slip, you can usually blame three culprits: fatigue, overfamiliarity, or poor morale. See how you can remedy these problems.

• Keeping the team together

  Personal conflicts, external pressures--it all adds up to a tough environment in which to build team morale. How do CIOs and IT managers pull a group together when everything's falling apart around them?

• 2003: Get your team motivated?

  On the eve of the new year everyone is thinking about their professional resolutions. ZDNet Australia looks at some tips for IT managers and CIOs looking to ramp up team motivation in 2003.

• What makes a good manager?

  Communication skills, a technical background and the ability to communicate are all touted as important qualities for team managers to possess. What skills do you think are key to being a good IT manager?

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• Office 2003 Beta 2: an IT perspective

  As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.

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