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To someone else. Why? Some project managers accidentally stumble into the profession. Others enter the field on purpose. Both groups tend to settle into a particular way of managing projects, and over time it seems most form specific ideas about what works and what doesn’t from their experience.

The first column, “Second Class Software Quality for Major IT Projects”, talks about the curious fact that organizations are willing to spend millions, tens of millions, even hundred of millions of dollars on major IT project and yet still nickle-and-dime their software quality assurance (SQA) effort.

Obviously, I’ve been slow in posting here, since I’ve had two new columns go up at Baseline since I last posted. The first column, “Second Class Software Quality for Major IT Projects”, talks about the curious fact that organizations are willing to spend millions, tens of millions, even hundred of

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Today’s post is on something a bit different but still very much relevant in the web development world: project management. Now, I’m not all that old and I haven’t been a web developer for all that long (about 6 years in total, 3 actually getting paid ;-) but I have had the opportunity of working

The building of the Empire State Building is a testament to modern project management. Here, we find out more about how the construction was managed.

A PMO centers its attention on the business function aspects of project management. Having a larger scope than that of the individual project, it looks to isolate, refine and determine processes that can be replicated by other project teams within an organization.

What does business acumen mean, exactly? This writer asked managers, company decision-makers and some pundits/analysts what exactly "business smarts" means. The results proved that a dilemma exists--a failure to communicate on the same level.

My latest Baseline column is now up: Last week, I talked about some of the reasons why large organizations often reject the best solutions for a troubled IT project: fear, pride, budget, and the ever-present internal politics. This week, as promised, I will talk about what it takes to champion the right solution.