Trying to change senior management's mind may not seem like the smartest career move, but sometimes it's necessary for project success.
Project managers often spend long hours planning projects and managing team goals but often fall short when it comes to their own career.
Not everyone is easy to work with. If they were, managers would have infinitely easier jobs. You might think you work with a bunch of babies, but it's up to you to find ways to make your team work despite its faults.
A workaround by Research In Motion, designed to avoid infringing patents held by intellectual property company NTP, is simply a negotiating tactic to help the BlackBerry maker settle out of court, according to analyst group Gartner.
Project 2002 Pro features a Portfolio Analyzer that gives you access to rich OLAP data via Microsoft Excel Pivot Table and Pivot Chart. Learn to build a resource usage view with an enterprise scope.
You don't have to wander very far in the blogosphere before you'll find someone slagging off Domino, aka Lotus Notes.
For a large-scale storage project, it's not uncommon to go out to tender for the best deal but when was the last time you had to put together a tender for a document management room?
Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
As anybody who works from home knows, one of the great benefits of telecommuting is that pants are optional. Wear your pyjamas to that teleconference, or attend in your birthday suit if you prefer; nobody will be the wiser.
Does your organisation put a higher value on support or project development work? Columnist Tom Mochal lists the values of each type and asks you to weigh in on the situation in your shop.
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.
People who are attracted to the creative effort of new technology don't like procedural work. Don't let the desire for new gadgets develop into change for change's sake.
Trying to change senior management's mind may not seem like the smartest career move, but sometimes it's necessary for project success.
You were promoted because of your technical brilliance and project management skills. But what do you know about managing people?
Like Microsoft's tabletop Surface computer, the touch-controlled Sphere can sense multiple, simultaneous contacts, allowing a number of people to use it at the same time. The system works by projecting an image onto the inside of the sphere, while infrared technology senses the touch input
Developers and designers are in a constant battle when working together on an application or Web site project; a presentation at Microsoft's ReMIX conference in Melbourne last month described the issues perfectly -- with an egg.
A computing project has abandoned its effort to crack the main security code for Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
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.
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.
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