Building and managing a far-flung team brings special leadership challenges. Some key strategies will keep your distributed team cohesive.
Many managers face the dilemma of trying to balance the short-term pain of replacing a team member against the risk associated with keeping a marginal performer on the team. How can the issue be resolved?
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.
Project management software won't turn you into a leader overnight, but the right tools can greatly assist the planning and smooth running of your projects.
You might think it would be easy to convince IT managers that it's important to measure their group's effectiveness supporting e-business. Think again.
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It's easy for IT managers to get bogged down in day-to-day activities and lose sight of the bigger picture of leading their staff. Whether you're a seasoned pro, or new to the game, the following tips will help you effectively manage your team.
The sheer size and breadth of Centrelink's operations has always meant project management there is a Herculean effort. Taking a new approach to its people and project scheduling has improved the situation dramatically -- but change hasn't been easy.
The new year represents an opportunity for IT managers to evaluate their accomplishments and sift through their less successful projects and relationships in an effort to get things moving in the right direction. IT consultant Shannon Kalvar offers some advice that will help you keep things on track in 2007.
Many managers face the dilemma of trying to balance the short-term pain of replacing a team member against the risk associated with keeping a marginal performer on the team. How can the issue be resolved?
You don't always have to dominate a client's project to do your job. Sometimes, you need to take a backseat so your client can survive after you're gone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Researchers in Europe have made advances with a new technology that could one day be used to detect explosives or biological weapons in parcels, locate cancers beneath the skin, reveal the state of wounds beneath dressings and see through fog.
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