Gab Projects: 2005

Monday 08 Aug 2005

How To Be Productive Working From Home | “In my last post I asked my readers for tips to help me be more productive as an at home worker. They responded with a boatload of tips – thanks all! I also did quite a bit of online surfing and reading to see what I could turn up. I found some great stuff.”
» Archived 7:45 AM PDT

Thursday 04 Aug 2005

10 Steps To Better Meetings | “Throughout my professional life I think meetings have been one of the biggest sources of frustration. I’m one of those people who really likes to work at work and while I do find some meetings very useful, and the occasional meeting totally necessary, I think the majority of meetings I’ve attended over the years could be done away with. Or at least done better.”
» Archived 7:40 AM PDT

20 Ways To Say No | “We’ve brought together all of the TIP sheets, schedules, and CHECKLISTS that Professional Organizers use to keep their clients in order. Feel free to make use of anything in this section…”
» Archived 7:28 AM PDT

Monday 01 Aug 2005

Principle Based Project Management | “This site is to help you better understand and apply the principles, practices, and techniques of project management.”
» Archived 8:04 AM PDT

Thursday 28 Jul 2005

Why the big teams can’t hit the right notes | “Joel hits a high note himself documenting the 1:10 productivity difference between crap and rock star programmers in Hitting the High Notes. But what’s even more interesting about his argument is the thesis that its not just about productivity, it’s about making a different class of software. The best programmers don’t just make the same software faster, they make a different kind of software…”
» Archived 8:14 AM PDT

Tuesday 26 Jul 2005

The rarity of passion-driven teams | “The concept of teams is not new. Although a ‘teaming’ revival has been zinging around the globe for several decades now, the concept has been around since before men worked in teams to hunt mammoth. Yet most teams today are nowhere near as effective as they could be. The reasons are many; lack of structure, lack of well-defined roles and responsibilities, and lack of communication, to name a few. But one reason overrides all the rest – a lack of passion. Passion is strongest when it exudes from a natural source, such as identifying and working within your true vocation – that career for which you are best suited.”
» Archived 7:12 AM PDT

Monday 18 Jul 2005

Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers | “Just because you’ve used lots of software doesn’t mean you can write code. Just because you’ve been in lots of buildings doesn’t mean you can be an architect. And just because you’ve logged a million frequent flyer miles doesn’t mean you can fly a plane.”
» Archived 7:31 AM PDT

Friday 15 Jul 2005

GTD jumpstart | “Over on Lifehack.org someone asked about how to get started with ‘Getting Things Done.’ I’ll throw my hat in the ring…shoots, I’ve gotten started lots of times! There are just two things to be clear about before we begin. Thing one: read the book. I get frustrated when people say, ‘I’m planning on buying the book, but until then how do I…’ Crikey…”
» Archived 8:36 PM PDT

Friday 24 Jun 2005

Planning and Facilitating Meetings | “Meetings can make or break an organization. If your meetings are well prepared, focused on planning for action, and facilitated in an efficient, yet involving and upbeat manner, they help build your organization. On the other hand, if your meetings are poorly planned, poorly run. and don’t focus on planning for action, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to build an organization.”
» Archived 8:16 AM PDT

Wednesday 22 Jun 2005

Getting Real: The alone time zone | “37signals is spread out over 4 cities and 8 time zones. From Provo Utah to Copenhagen Denmark, the five of us are 8 hours apart. We embrace this constraint. We’re always looking to embrace constraints. The presence of constraints make you creative. The more constraints you lift, the less creative you become. What’s the side effect of being 8 time zones apart? Alone time.”
» Archived 8:14 AM PDT

Monday 13 Jun 2005

Tricks of the Trade: Corporate Worker | “When you also want to avoid getting into an endlessly long and boring conversation with someone at work who doesn’t know when to stop talking, but you must talk to them, do the following…”
» Archived 7:42 AM PDT

Tuesday 31 May 2005

“Crunch Mode” and Sleep | “Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons is an article that I meant to link to ages ago, and is presented here for the sake of completeness. ‘Crunch mode’ – working extra hours each day for extended periods in order to meet a (usually arbitrary and unrealistic) deadline – is a term that’s familiar to programmers, especially any who’ve worked at a small firm or start-up over the past 10 years.”
» Archived 8:06 AM PDT

Friday 29 Apr 2005

Info-overload harms concentration more than marijuana | “The next time your boss complains you are not focused enough, blame it on email and phone calls. Even smoking dope has less effect on your ability to concentrate on the task in hand.”
» Archived 6:49 AM PDT

Wednesday 27 Apr 2005

Revolving workflow strategies | “I’ve been using GTD principles for over three years now, mostly with good results. I believe the concepts are generally the best productivity approach for knowledge workers. There are times, however, when I think the model must be expanded to get the best results in a given situation.”
» Archived 7:39 AM PDT

Thursday 21 Apr 2005

Recovering the Lost Art of Note-Taking | “I spend most of my work-life in meetings. Note-taking is a survival skill. Yet, I am surprised at how few people bother to take notes in meetings. Those who do sometimes express frustration at how ineffective the exercise seems to be. In this post, I’d like to expound on why I think you should take notes in meetings and then offer a few suggestions on how to do it better.”
» Archived 10:19 PM PDT

Wednesday 23 Feb 2005

The Art and Science of a Great Team | “One of the great mysteries in the corporate world is how to become, own, have access to, or create one of those teams. Everyone is trying to create or buy the team that clicks, performs, outperforms, is super creative, super reliable, super productive, and just ‘has it.’ silverorange, luckily, has been one of these teams. While a lot of it seems up to luck, timing, and chance I think I can shed some light on the other more tangible constraints and patterns that are in place for these teams to happen. This is in no way a comprehensive or complete list. It is merely a list of observations Iâ€™ve made.”
» Archived 7:53 AM PST

Monday 24 Jan 2005

A Year of Getting Things Done | “I recently realized that this month marks one year since I started using Getting Things Done in earnest. With the calendar year closing, it seems like an apt time to look back at what’s worked, what hasn’t, and where I’d like to see GTD heading in the future.”
» Archived 6:39 PM PST

Thursday 20 Jan 2005

Ta-da List: Simple sharable to-do lists. | “Ta-da makes it easy to… Keep track of all the little things you need to get done; Make lists for other people (co-workers, friends, family); Share lists with the world (’My favorite movies of 2004′); Subscribe to your lists in RSS so you’re always on track …and more!”
» Archived 8:37 AM PST

Saturday 15 Jan 2005

Could You Use a ‘Stop Doing’ List? | “One of the tried and true organization and time-management tools is the trusty old ‘to do’ list. I was trained to diligently put one together at the end of the day for the following day, and whatever tasks I failed to complete, to carry it forward. This system has worked well in helping me prioritize and focus. But I have also heard many of my colleagues complain about having too much on their list, and feeling very discouraged and overwhelmed by the sheer number of items on their ‘To Do’ list. To help ease the overwhelm, I want to introduce the concept of the “Stop Doing” list…”
» Archived 9:25 AM PST

Tuesday 11 Jan 2005

10 ways to use blogs for managing projects | “Blogs aren’t just for marketing - there are many areas of the business where they can help improve information flow, reduce clutter and avoid the dreaded ‘but I didn’t know about that’ situation. Here’s ten ways that we’ve used blogs for managing projects — both internally and with our clients.”
» Archived 7:59 AM PST

Tuesday 23 Nov 2004

Hourly Rates—Confusing Effort with Results | “By charging a client for time alone, you completely undermine the expertise you’ve spent years building, and you limit the profit you can justifiably earn. Dozens of pricing alternatives exist that don’t rely on the hourly rate. Look for alternatives that lead to discussions with clients about the outcomes they want to achieve. When pricing your next project, think results, not effort.”
» Archived 7:39 AM PST

Monday 27 Sep 2004

Take the Time to Plan Outcomes before Activity | “I’ve been attending many project meetings lately. They all had one thing in common. People spoke about what they would be doing without talking about what that would accomplish. Planning starts with the promises you make. Once you get clear about what you will accomplish, then what you do becomes clear.”
» Archived 7:55 AM PDT

Off-Site Insights | “For the last two days, the Fast Company team has been sequestered in a country home built during the 1830’s in the Delaware Valley. The purpose: A strategic off-site planning session. Over the course of almost 48 hours, members of the production, design, editorial, Web, and business teams gathered to deconstruct the magazine, revisit our approach to design, improve the copy editing and fact checking processes, and otherwise reconsider the work we do… How do you approach off-sites?”
» Archived 7:54 AM PDT

Tuesday 07 Sep 2004

Wicked Problems | “The idea of wicked problems in design was originally proposed by H. J. Rittel and M. M. Webber (1984) in the particular context of social planning. In solving a wicked problem, the solution of one aspect of the problem may reveal another, more complex problem.”
» Archived 7:09 PM PDT

Ten Rules for Project Managers | “Embrace uncertainty: Expect the unexpected. There is far more that we don’t know and can’t know than what we can anticipate. Be resilient to what life throws at you. Anticipate that your team will learn something along the way that can and should change what you have promised and how you can deliver on your promises. And when you take a set-back — we all do sometime or another — review the other nine rules for how you can work your way out of it.”
» Archived 7:08 PM PDT

Tuesday 10 Aug 2004

Help for Team Efforts | “How to tell when things are getting off track—and how to realign again… We all know that we are supposed to ‘get along.’ We’ve heard this since we were youngsters. Then why is it so hard to practice as adults? We have our degrees, titles, gray hair and nice offices, but when it comes to playing on (or establishing) teams, many of us struggle.”
» Archived 8:36 AM PDT

Saturday 07 Aug 2004

Idea Facilitation Tips | “This list of ten tips for facilitators comes from the book Facilitation: A Door to Creative Leadership by Blair Miller, Jonathan Vehar and Roger Firestien. In Roger’s newletter ‘Innovation Expresso,’ he reprints these tips and states: ‘There are a number of factors that contribute to groups being uncreative. However, the most damaging creativity killer in a group is a poor facilitator.’”
» Archived 11:24 AM PDT

Saturday 31 Jul 2004

What Gets Measured Gets Done | “I think the soundest management advice I’ve heard is the old saw; ‘What gets measured gets done.’ My own organization applies this dictum rigorously. Our five-day executive seminars are organized around a series of ‘promises’ which demand of our participants practical action in our areas: customers, innovation, people and leadership. We quantify wherever possible. Although some of the promises may seem wildly ambitious, each is thoroughly grounded in observed business practice, usually in the toughest markets.”
» Archived 10:36 AM PDT

Thursday 01 Jul 2004

The Price of Bright Ideas | “Shades of our recent conversation with Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder, authors of Ideas Are Free, a white paper released by Imaginatik last summer goes far to address the ROI of idea management. In the 17-page PDF, Mark Turrell, the research firm’s director, outlines the costs of idea management, as well as its benefits.”
» Archived 10:58 AM PDT

Friday 25 Jun 2004

Leaky Applications in Computers and Life | “Once again, it’s Friday morning and there are at least a half dozen top priorities for the week still undone, not to mention calls to be returned and emails to answer. Where did the hours go? I did a time-audit and here’s what I found…”
» Archived 9:30 AM PDT

Wednesday 16 Jun 2004

Not Enough Good Project Managers? | “Mark Zweig, guru to the AE industry, noticed there just aren’t enough good project managers. Writing in his Zweig Letter Mark offered four reasons and three recommendations. I urge you to take his views seriously even if you don’t agree. Mark has a knack of getting to the heart of a subject. And he does so with few words.”
» Archived 3:19 PM PDT

Monday 07 Jun 2004

The Rules of Project Executive Class | “This posting was inspired by Peter Drucker’s Manager’s Journal article in the June 1, 2004 Wall Street Journal titled The Rules of Executive Class. The article was adapted from his article ‘What Makes an Effective Executive’ appearing in the June issue of the Harvard Business Review. Mr. Drucker argues that effective executives don’t need to be charismatic out-going leaders. Who am I to argue with Peter Drucker? So I won’t. I’ll use his eight prescribed practices to develop a list for those people who are in the role of project executive.”
» Archived 1:01 PM PDT

Tuesday 01 Jun 2004

The Curse of Great Expectations | “Yes, benchmarking is terrific. Benchmarking is the reason that cars got so much better over the last twenty years. Benchmarking has the inexorable ability to make the mediocre better than average, and it pushes us to always outperform. But it stresses us out. A benchmarked service business or product (or even a benchmarked relationship) is always under pressure. It’s hard to be number one, and even harder when the universe we choose to compare our options against is, in fact, the entire universe.”
» Archived 11:01 AM PDT

Thursday 15 Apr 2004

How to Pick a Project Team | “When Bill Hagerup was a novice project manager, he attended a meeting in which managers were picking people for upcoming projects. He let the other project managers step all over him and ended up with the leftovers. ‘The project didn’t go well, and I vowed I would never let that happen again,’ he says.”
» Archived 1:14 PM PDT

Wednesday 31 Mar 2004

Frank Patrick’s Focused Performance Business Blog | “This Focused Performance Weblog is a “business management blog” containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a ‘Theory of Constraints’ perspective. TOC is noted for its applications in Project and Multi-Project Management (Critical Chain) and Operations Management (Drum-Buffer-Rope), as well as in Marketing, Strategic Planning and Change Management (TOC Thinking Processes).”
» Archived 12:46 PM PST

Thursday 18 Mar 2004

Projects@Work | “Projects@Work is the only business-to-business magazine of its kind, written for professionals with front-line responsibility for project management. Published bimonthly, Projects@Work presents case studies, practical information and applications, product updates and news.”
» Archived 2:58 PM PST

Tuesday 24 Feb 2004

The Project Reformer’s e-Tip of the Week | “These folks have joined me in investigating what really works, why it works, and what we can be doing to help others succeed. I’ve learned tremendously from interacting with my readers.”
» Archived 12:07 PM PST

Monday 16 Feb 2004

Excuse me, Admiral: Multi-tasking is counterproductive | “New research has shown that multi-tasking is counterproductive. Knowledge workers typically bang away at their word processors, answer phones, talk to colleagues all pretty much at once, but they may be wasting hours every day by trying to do too many things at once. So how are we meant to deal with information overload then? Dealing with one task at a time isn’t particularly flexible. Well, the flipside of multi-tasking is interruption, and thankfully someone in the United States Navy is taking interruptions seriously.”
» Archived 10:39 AM PST

Tuesday 10 Feb 2004

Basecamp: Web-based Project Management | “Basecamp is a simple, hosted web-based service that lets you manage projects and quickly create client/project extranets. It lets you and your clients (or just you and your own internal team) keep your conversations, ideas, schedules, to-do lists, and more in one password-protected central location. And unlike most project management products, Basecamp is a breeze to use.”
» Archived 8:42 AM PST

Tuesday 27 Jan 2004

The team-building lunch | “When I listed my criteria for good teammates, I included ‘will have lunch with me on a regular basis.’ That seems to have surprised some of my readers, to say nothing of those who were apparently angered.”
» Archived 10:42 AM PST

Tuesday 06 Jan 2004

Is Your Project at Risk for Disaster? | “In ‘Managing Project Uncertainty — From Variation to Chaos’ (M.I.T. Sloan Management Review, Winter 2002), three business school professors describe a continuum of risk onto which they say every project falls. Take this quiz, created by Baseline, to find out what risks your project faces — and what management techniques you’ll need to combat them.”
» Archived 8:57 AM PST

Monday 05 Jan 2004

Best Practices Don’t Predict Project Success | “I received an intriguing email this week asking this question: ‘[…]if we were to put a quantitative value against each best practice, summed them up, and compared the total against a possible maximum could we have a predictor of project success?’”
» Archived 10:57 AM PST

Wednesday 03 Dec 2003

Balancing Priorities on Schedule | “We get pulled in many directions during the day — unexpected interruptions, phone calls, e-mails. It’s time to get control of your schedule.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Monday 11 Aug 2003

Keep Office Politics Out of Your Design | “It happens again and again. You spend hours in design meetings debating a point, and then a single word from upper management squashes your decision. Or maybe your design debates just go on for weeks because of office politics. How can you streamline this process? By deriving your conclusions from research instead of just ‘experience.’”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Monday 14 Apr 2003

When Bad Ideas Won’t Die | “Why do smart companies put so much energy into doomed products? University of Paris-based Isabelle Royer tackles this thorny issue in this excerpt from Harvard Business Review. By profiling two French companies’ experiences with failed projects, Royer gets at some surprising answers: Belief and faith triumph over reason.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Wednesday 05 Feb 2003

When Employees Miss Deadlines | “I have a small software business, and even though my employees are not overworked, we constantly run up against deadlines. We break our necks scurrying around at the last minute to complete tasks on time. We have even missed a few deadlines. Why can’t my employees plan their time better? Or is there something I should be doing differently as a manager to improve the situation?”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Tuesday 21 Jan 2003

Protecting Project Value from Uncertainty | “Protecting the value of a project involves dealing with the uncertainty that will be associated with its delivery. The role of Project Management is to assist in turning uncertain events and efforts into certain outcomes and promises. If this is the case, then the primary process associated with project management should be that of risk management.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Top 10 Sources of Project Failure | “Do any of these conditions exist in your organization? Do you see the possible linkages between them and poor project performance? Think about whether you are doing anything to address these potential roots of problems. If not, then you might be stuck at current performance levels.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Thursday 09 Jan 2003

Patience is key when dealing with a difficult consultant | “Consultants sometimes face hostility from members of your team because the staffers view the consultant as a turf invader. But managers with any tenure at all know that discord works both ways. Sometimes the consultant is the source of discord.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Tuesday 03 Dec 2002

WRITING THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | “Executive summaries are much like other summaries in that their main goal is to provide a condensed version of a longer report’s content. The key difference, however, is that executive summaries are written for someone who most likely DOES NOT have time to read the original.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

International Calling Codes | This page tells you all the country codes you need when making international calls.
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Thursday 03 Oct 2002

Reforming Project Management | “Concern about projects has never been at a higher level. Project management is currently one of the most-cited career positions. Every company and organization has projects. Membership in the 25 year-old Project Management Institute (PMI) has swelled from about 8,000 to 80,000 in just the last ten years, 30,000 in the last year alone. Currently, over 1,000 books on project management are available from PMI. Yet we continue to get projects that are over budget, late, and fail in some significant way to satisfy the customer and the project participants.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Tuesday 01 Oct 2002

Project Management Graphics | “I am a Project Manager for construction projects, and I have just been hired to help with the planning and oversight of a $100 million construction project. My primary task at the moment is to make sense of the schedule, milestones, critical path, and, in general, make a very complicated project more comprehensible. Yesterday I received the current schedule, which was done in MS Project (Gantt view), and is now 770 lines (18 pages). Gantt charts have a lot of good qualities, but at this size they are very hard to read. After thinking about it for a minute, I realized I have never seen a construction schedule that I would consider an ‘excellent visual diagram.’ Does anyone have any ideas for me?”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Tuesday 18 Jun 2002

Creating More Time | “Do you ever feel there is not enough time to do everything you want? Do you ever end the day with a list of things-to-do? Do you ever finish the week with more you need to get done? You are suffering from the common freelancer’s (and even staff artist’s) syndrome of too much to do and too little time to do it. Though I do not know any way to give you less to do, you can make more time!”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Wednesday 08 May 2002

The Sanctity of Elements | “When a client asks if you can do something in a meeting or on the phone, don’t say yes or no immediately, even if you think you know the answer. Listen to the problem to get a full understanding of the issue. Repeat the problem back to the client to make sure you’ve got it straight, then respond that you need time to review the request. By reviewing the suggestion after the meeting, then explaining your recommendation — including proposed alternatives if the original request can’t be implemented — you set the precedent that there’s a process to follow.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Wednesday 02 Jan 2002

Groundwork for Project Success | “The best way to make a project successful is to start well. Bringing your project in on target is challenging, but certainly possible if you know how to go about it. If you can learn to communicate your value effectively to project stakeholders, you’ll produce more successful projects and advance your career. Your credibility is crucial, and the best way to gain credibility is to show that your projects are well grounded, well executed, and contribute materially to your company’s success. This article outlines a set of tools that will put you in a leadership position, make sure your projects meet business goals, increase the support for your work, and, in the end, improve your credibility.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Monday 15 Oct 2001

Value-Complexity Matrix | “I like to think of projects as a journey from the abstract to the concrete. Here’s a simple path: Do business strategy / user research
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Friday 05 Oct 2001

A Project Management Glossary | “Project Managers have a large part to play in what work you’ll have to do, when you’ll have to do it by, and whether you get paid. So it’s pretty useful to gain credibility with them — and other stakeholders you meet — by understanding their language, and even using it on occasion. What follows is a guide to the common terms used by Project Managers and other people within a project. Like most jargon, it seems pointless until you start working with it, at which point it becomes a very useful way of describing the many people, situations and processes which almost every development project will involve.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Tuesday 19 Jun 2001

Team-Based Ethnography | “An Integrated User-Centered Approach for Project Teams: Project success depends on the fit of a product or service with user goals and needs. Project manageability depends on a solid shared foundation for swift and effective decision-making. The Team-Based Ethnography offers a methodology to achieve both. The Team-Based Ethnography enables project teams to get to know users and to design for their needs. It lets teams adjust basic project management processes instead of adding new activities onto the existing workload.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Tuesday 05 Jun 2001

Knowledge Management — Emerging Perspectives | “Yes, knowledge management is the hottest subject of the day. The question is: what is this activity called knowledge management, and why is it so important to each and every one of us? The following writings, articles, and links offer some emerging perspectives in response to these questions. As you read on, you can determine whether it all makes any sense or not.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Wednesday 16 May 2001

Wanna Be a Project Manager? | “I became obsessed with project management and ‘process’ after an incident a few years ago at HotWired. We were launching Cocktail, HotWired’s modern-day speakeasy, after a lengthy but fairly smooth design and production schedule. It was our first experiment with framesets and we kept running into little bugs that delayed the launch that day from morning, to afternoon, to on into late evening.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Tuesday 12 Dec 2000

Mastering the Designer-Client Relationship | “…clients can be extremely demanding and difficult to work with. It’s for this reason that mastering the art of client-designer relationships is paramount to a design (and the designer’s) success. There are a few basic rules that should be followed to ensure your design job runs as flawlessly as possible, from start to finish, without any major hiccups or confusion. Many of these involve simply sitting down with your client and making sure you are both as informed as possible about the aims and objectives of the project. Here are nine important rules a designer needs to understand in order to master the designer-client relationship.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Friday 08 Dec 2000

Techies log more hours but produce less | “Technology professionals are clocking longer hours, but producing less, and are at greater risk of jumping ship for a new job than ever before, an annual survey of business technology development has found.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Monday 27 Nov 2000

Best client quotes | “So I’m working on this site and when I originally met with the guy he like drew out the front page as a big block and broke it into sections and told me where to put things (basically he was playing designer for me). So I do the front page and I try to make it look nice and sort of edgy. This is the feedback I got from them a few hours later. ‘Please follow original instructions. We don’t want this page to look tricked out or computer generated…’ f***ing brilliant. Can anyone beat this comment?” Warning: This page is long and large.
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Tuesday 21 Nov 2000

What makes those damn clients so difficult? | “You know the old saying: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The same holds true in dealing with clients. Oh sure, Atilla the Hun is out there, but he or she is an infinitesimal minority. In actual fact, most of those downright ugly client situations stem from a host of reasons other than the client themselves: lack of planning and communication, poor listening skills, over-promises and unmet expectations, over-confidence and lack of self-confidence, and lack of motivation — on either side.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Friday 22 Sep 2000

One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers | “Jerry Madden, Associate Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, collected these gems of wisdom over a number of years from various unidentifiable sources. Rod Stewart of Mobile Data Services in Huntsville, Alabama edited and updated them… Rule #1: A project manager should visit everyone who is building anything for his project at least once, should know all the managers on his project (both government and contractor), and know the integration team members. People like to know that the project manager is interested in their work and the best proof is for the manager to visit them and see first hand what they are doing.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Monday 14 Aug 2000

Project Management Research on the Web | ” individual universities, departments and researchers; Indices; professional associations; consultancy services and more.
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Tuesday 11 Apr 2000

Same-Page.com eSTUDIO | “Whether your clients, freelancers or co-workers are in another state or across town get each of them on the Same Page instantly with our SAME-PAGE eStudio. Organize, coordinate and collaborate on all of your communication-arts projects: View and comment on artwork, video, animation, copy, scripts, press releases, and more. Set schedules. Manage contacts. Create estimates. Report expenses. Real-time conference with your team. Promote your business and so much more…”
» Archived 12:00 AM PDT

Friday 31 Mar 2000

WWW Virtual Library on Knowledge Management | “Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaption, survival and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change… Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Friday 24 Mar 2000

iTeamWork.com | “iTeamwork is a free Web-based project-management tool for anyone who needs to manage multiple projects or teams. Use iTeamWork to: Track your tasks organized by project, schedule tasks, assign tasks to other people, be notified by e-mail when tasks are completed and include multiple companies/vendors into a single project. iTeamWork will e-mail you daily or weekly with your open tasks that need to be completed that day or week, while reminding you of tasks past due.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Tuesday 15 Feb 2000

MediaLot | “Collaborate with your project team anytime… anywhere! Say goodbye to sticky notes, courier charges, photocopying, hard-to-read faxes and blown deadlines. The future is web-based collaboration. And it’s here. Now.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Sunday 07 Nov 1999

Pyra | “Pyra is a web-based power tool designed to help you manage tasks and related project information in an easily accessible, shared space.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

WWW Project Management Forum | “The Project Management Forum is a resource for information on international project management affairs dedicated to development, international cooperation, promotion and support of a professional and world wide project management discipline.”
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

What is Project Management? | Glad you asked…
» Archived 12:00 AM PST

Wednesday 31 Dec 1969

The Weblog As A Project-Management Tool | “We are, as a species, hardwired not only for language but for narrative. A story is, you might say, an evolutionary mechanism designed to focus the attention of a group. Sometimes the point is to entertain, sometimes to teach, often both. The power of narrative, whatever its purpose, flows from a deep human need to identify with a group, and above all to find out what happens next.”
» Archived 2:58 PM PST

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