You have a tough enough time managing on-site teams. Scatter team members among locations, and it's even harder. One consultant shares the lessons he learned on the way to success.
A project manager's ability to communicate ideas, results and issues to all stakeholders in the appropriate manner, at the appropriate time has the single most critical impact on a projects success or failure.
With businesses under more pressure to effectively deliver new technologies, project management looms large as a key to successful implementations. ZDNet Australia uncovers these tips to successful project management.
A Project Management Office needs a methodology to carry out its tasks for your clients. Here's a look at your first steps to developing and supporting a project management methodology.
A third of IT projects carried out in the private sector runs between 10 and 20 percent over the original budget, according to a CIO survey.
You don't have to wander very far in the blogosphere before you'll find someone slagging off Domino, aka Lotus Notes.
Businesses are notorious for resisting change, especially when it comes to technology, arguing that the risks of new investments aren't always clearly justified.
Getting executive sponsorship for any kind of data clean-up project isn't easy. If careful reasoning, detailed budget plans and a touch of blackmail don't work, then there may be a simpler solution: arson.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Faced with the thought of a USB drive, notebook PC or backup tape going missing, most IT managers look to some form of encryption as the first layer of defence. However, according to one storage security expert, that's largely a pointless exercise.
You have a tough enough time managing on-site teams. Scatter team members among locations, and it's even harder. One consultant shares the lessons he learned on the way to success.
The future of the project management discipline hinges on the successful adoption of the philosophy of project portfolio management (PPM), a leading project management consultant has cautioned.
You may find yourself wondering what managers above you think about your work. Here are some insights into what may be going on in their heads and how you can help manage your manager's view of your projects.
Whether you are engaging a client on a solution proposal or simply kicking off your project exploration phase, clients are today deeply interested in ROI. Here's how to make that pay off for project managers.
Among the five most common project management mistakes, inadequate definition and planning tops the list. Builder.com tells you how to avoid this pitfall.
Public sector IT projects are moving forward but stakeholders have been stumped by the election. John Kost, managing VP for Gartner's government team, says people don't know who will make decisions once their project is implemented.
Redmond-based group project manager of Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, told ZDNet Australia that OOXML provides higher levels of security. "One of the benefits we have with the OpenOffice XML formats is that we know when we read and write and document because we have an XML based representation of what's in that content -- we know what should and should not be there," he said.
Project managing is difficult enough in the office, but trying to stay on top of things while you're on the road can be nearly impossible. FastTrack Schedule 7.0 and FastTrack Schedule 7.0 for Palm OS, offers compatible desktop and PDA project management applications, so you can create and monitor schedules wherever you go.
For managers who use already Microsoft Office XP, Project 2002 Standard will do nicely. But this software is far too involved for consumers and those in small offices, who would fare better with a spreadsheet.
The improvements in Word, Excel and PowerPoint make this upgrade worth the cash, especially for Office 2001 users, but the new Project Center needs beefing up.
What's the big deal about Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft Project 2002 Pro? For starters, they allow you to access project information in one location and easily control and analyse the data.
A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers working on competing software.
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