After Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's announcement last week that Labor plans to turn every school in Australia digital, representatives of the country's IT industry are calling on the new government to establish a trade advisory group to assist in implementing its "education revolution".
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Ensuring timely rollouts within the project scope and budget, in addition to interacting with different organisational departments, can be a real challenge. But there are ways to ensure a successful deployment.
Retiring project managers should be directed into mentorship roles for knowledge transfer rather than being assigned to projects they may never see the end of, a project management expert has advised.
Keeping other managers, your own staff and the board in the loop about projects can seem like communication overload. But getting it right from the start could save you from backlash down the line.
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In this audio interview, Aconex CEO Leigh Jasper talks about how a $107.5 million investment in the Melbourne-based software-as-a-service firm by US giant Francisco Partners came about, the history of Aconex, and taking an Australian IT firm to the next level.
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.
Primavera latest has joined the high ranks of project management software by ensuring that SureTrak follows Windows 95 and 98 conventions. Most users will find the software more operable and responsive than its previous version.
Microsoft's suite of online tools is designed to help small businesses build and maintain a Web presence and manage projects, contacts, and tasks.
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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.
With just over a year between the release of Project Server 2002 and Project Server 2003, you might doubt the value of the enhancements to the latest version. But the changes are based on specific requests from product users.
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