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Make Your Own Project Life Cycle

On October 28, 2009

If you don’t want to have to start every project from scratch, then it’s worthwhile creating your own Project Life Cycle.

How should you do this? What should it look like? And how do you use it?

A Project Life Cycle is a series of steps that [...]

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How to Document Your Projects

On October 14, 2009

As a Project Manager, you have to document your projects quickly and efficiently to ensure success. In this newsletter, we’ll tell you which documents you need to complete to deliver your projects on time.

How to Document your Projects

Here are the essential [...]

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How to Manage Projects Step-by-Step

On September 30, 2009

Projects can often be chaos. To remain focused and achieve success, you need to work in a step-by-step manner. That way, you will have complete control over every action you take.

You have a choice in how you manage projects. If you manage in an unstructured fashion, [...]

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Learn to Create Project Communication Plan

On September 18, 2009

If you manage projects, then you will know that to succeed, you need to communicate clearly with all of your project stakeholders. Otherwise your staff will lack clear direction, team morale will be low and your project may deliver over schedule and exceed its budget.

Situation Analysis

The first step to take when [...]

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Are you a good in decision making?

On September 5, 2009

Great leaders make great decisions. But how do they do it? What techniques do they use for making decisions quickly and easily?

This may surprise you, but most great leaders use the same 5 steps for making decisions. So read the 5 steps below and use them to improve your decision-making on projects:

Investigate the [...]

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Tips to write project documentation

On August 28, 2009

As a Project Manager, you often have to write lengthy documents that are critical to the success of the project. So it’s important that you do a good job.

Take these top tips to improve your writing skills:

Keep it simple

Great writers can cover whole topics in just a few short paragraphs. To do [...]

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Improve Your Project Meetings

On August 25, 2009

Everyone dislikes meetings that drag on. So your job is to make it focused, highly driven and to add a sense of purpose. If you do this, then you’ll boost team motivation and morale. Here are 5 tips to help you…

Tip 1: Plan wisely

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Project Closure

On August 20, 2009

Following the completion of all project deliverable and acceptance by the customer, a successful project will have met its objectives and be ready for formal closure. Project Closure is the last phase in the project and must be conducted formally so that the business benefits delivered by the project are fully realized by the customer.

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Boost Your Confidence

On August 13, 2009

For some people, confidence comes naturally and to others, they need to work at it. So follow these Golden Rules, if you want to improve your level of personal confidence:

1. Look after yourself
Confident people look and feel great. The first step towards boosting confidence [...]

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6 Mistakes in Project Management

On July 13, 2009

The simple question is that where and why things can go wrong and how to prevent that from happening?

In software development industry there was a joke something like that client can only ever choose two solution three features; lower cost, performance and reliability. Unfortunatley though, the joke has become quite normal and routine requirement [...]

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PMBOK 3rd edition vs PMBOK 4th edition & references

On July 1, 2009

PMBOK 3rd ed PMBOK 4th ed 4.1 Develop Project Charter 4.1 Develop Project Charter 4.2 Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement 4.3 Develop Project Management Plan 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan 4.4 Direct and Manage Project Execution 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution 4.5 Monitor and Control Project Work 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work 4.6 [...]

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20 Use case and Business analyst interview questions

On January 28, 2009

Every business analyst has a connection with UML’s Use cases. Mostly in the interviews technical persons asks question about use cases to business analyst. I found following questions very useful and common. May be it helps you out!

How many use case engagements have you been on and what was your role? How many use [...]

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Price your projects

On January 27, 2009

Only one rule exist in the business world which says that ‘Time is Money’. I am specifically writing for freelancers not for corporate because corporates have different structure. One of the biggest challenges for new freelancers is pricing.

Pricing isn’t easy. There are plenty of factors that come into mind:

How long will the project [...]

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SSADM Introduction

On December 7, 2008

Introduction

In the early days of large scale information systems development many organisations used the Cobol programming language together with indexed sequential files to build systems for customer billing, payroll, stock control and a variety of other business areas. Developments at this time were characterised by :-

limited user involvement; inadequate requirements elicitation; use of [...]

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When should seek a PMP certification?

On November 20, 2008

Takeaway: Should a manager in midcareer seek a PMP certification? Which IT areas are best suited to the PMP? Learn why the PMP is right for certain IT managers–and what motivated one seasoned PM to get the certification.

You’ve moved up through the IT ranks over the years. You’ve seen projects that made it and [...]

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