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• Eran Toch on Use Cases

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  For the next few weeks I am going to grab a handful of slide decks about Use Cases and post them here. For those of you new to the work of the BA they are possibly the most popular way to define functional requirements in the industry today. (They are not the only way, nor even the best way.) UML Use Case ...
  4 hours ago

• 3 Good Motivation Practices

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  We have all looked around and noticed our staff needs a little motivation. Maybe it is getting that new practice in place, perhaps it is just inspiring a new habit or behavior. Motivation is a part of a manager and...Related posts: Tracking Time And The Lack Of Motivation Stakeholders Motivation Next Calgary ...
  6 hours ago

• Last Tipoffs Release for 2009 is T-minus 7 Days

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  The Arras People 2010 Project Management Benchmark Survey will be a highlight of next weeks final Tipoffs edition for the noughties.Project Management Tipoffs, the renowned project management newsletter from Arras People, will publish its December 2009 edition next Thursday, the final edition for the calendar year. ...
  16 hours ago

• Five Essential Resources for Microsoft Licensing

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  During the worldwide Project 2010 Ignite Tour , we have been getting a lot of questions about licensing. While the details of pricing and licensing of our next wave of products have not been disclosed yet, this article recently published in Directions on Microsoft is a great reminder on how Microsoft licensing ...
  17 hours ago

• Giveaway winner

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  And the first name out of the hat was Tony from Essex, UK. Congratulations:  a copy of Sharm Manwani’s book IT-Enabled Business Change is on its way.If you want to find out more about this book you can read the review here.  And if you are in London today and can get to the [...]Related posts: Giveaway winner: ...
  19 hours ago

• New MSDN Article: Using Project Server Security in SQL Server Reporting Services

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  Excellent newly published article from Stephen Sanderlin , MVP, MSProjectExperts on MSDN about reporting: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee862408.aspx Although Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 includes reporting functionality, many customers want to expand or customize their business ...
  23 hours ago

• Rules for Requirements Grammars

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  Requirements elicitation and engineering is a formal discipline in many domains. A recent paper "A Method for Identifying Requirements Critical to mass Reduction Using DSMS and DMMS," James M. McLellan, Jonathan R. A. Maier, Georges M. Fadel and Gregory M....Related posts: Baseline Magazine IT Project Survey and ...
  1 day ago

• Hop On Hop Off – Shrink Tours

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  The first thing I do when I visit a large foreign city, is take a Hop-on-hop-off bus. Easy and convenient way to get a guided tour through a new place.So, I wondered, why not do this for the web? At least, the web in respect to project leadership, awesome communication and using “way new media” [...] Subscribe ...
  1 day ago

• Significant Weaknesses in Commercial Skills & Expertise

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  £200billion Government Projects at RiskProjects, like businesses, often fail because they are not properly managed, and concern is growing over the lack of experienced project managers with the skills and knowledge base needed to deliver the large projects and programmes being planned over the coming years. A small ...
  1 day ago

• A comment on “PMOs and Sysiphus” by Randy Englund

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  Read PMOs and Sysiphus here. Bureaucracy is a tool used to control. It controls change and controls compliance with defined standards and it tries to control how people do thier jobs.  Bureacracy is by its nature fairly change resistant. When Randy Englund uses Lewins rubber band metaphor to describe how ...
  1 day ago

• Book review: Six-Word Lessons For Project Managers

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  What can you learn from just 6 words?  According to Lonnie Pacelli, President of Leading on the Edge International quite a lot.  He was inspired by this anecdote:“Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was challenged by some friends to write a story in six words.  Hemingway responded to the challenge with the ...
  1 day ago

• I’m Out Of My Lane

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  Watching C-Span Afghanistan and Pakistan Strategy hearing. General McChrystal made an interesting comment when asked something about the civilian processes. "I havent been a civilian since I was 17 and Id be Out of My Lane if I were to...Related posts: Check List for Managing a Program IMP/IMS For Everything ...
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• Keep IT Simple! – Redesigned

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  There was a popular survey some time ago that asked leaders in several mid-sized companies about their success. One of the main reasons that many were successful is they focused on simplicity in everything they did. The study concluded that simple, focused companies were more profitable. The Pareto or 80/20 Principle ...
  2 days ago

• Effective Communication By Thinking Alike

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  If two people have the same view of the their world, hold similar belief systems, in other words, have congruent mental models, they understand each other with ease.Congruent mental models stimulate effective communication.If you want to synchronize your model with that of your conversation partner, you are looking ...
  3 days ago

• Taming Chaotic Project Management – Establish a Resource Management Process

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  In Chaotic Environments it is clear to see that the talented committed resources are overwhelmed. Resources are just pulled to work on the priority of the hour, never mind the day. Projects are completed by individuals placing in beyond the...Related posts: Taming Chaotic Project Management – Establish your ...
  3 days ago

• Monday Morning Links – 7th December

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  Back again, refreshed from a week off with the family. Naturally, I started thinking about projects.On my week off. But I digress.Something summed it all up the other day – a colleague spoke about attending a session where someone asked a presenter, “Isn’t life a project?” Some eyes rolled, and after I ...
  3 days ago

• BAs and PMs working together (part 4)

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  In this final instalment of the ‘working together’ series, I’ll be looking at how to improve the working relationships between project managers and business analysts.Changing working relationships is often more about culture than concrete tasks, but there are some things you can do to smooth any blips in the way ...
  3 days ago

• Improving PM Competency with Social Media

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  Wouldnt it be easier if someone just sent you all the information that you needed to know? Social media helps accomplish this goal by leveraging the interactive and collaborative platforms that Web 2.0 provides.No related posts.
  3 days ago

• Acquisition Project: A Case Study

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  Its time for some observations and lessons learned from the acquired perspective of a company integration. For those of you that find yourselves managing integration projects--whether from the buyers perspective or the acquired company--hopefully some valuable lessons can be taken from this writers experience.No ...
  3 days ago

• What is the Unit of Measure of Your Benefit?

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 149
  Tom Gilb has a wonderful post about defining "business value." When anyone makes a statement about a beneficial outcome, my first question is "what are the units of measure?" I have some favorites: Our tool saves you time - how...Related posts: How To Behave Like a Professional Project Manager The Power of ...
  4 days ago

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