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Welcome to this issue of PROJECTmagazine. From basic project management tools and techniques to organizational project management maturity models, OPM3 ®. You'll find something of interest to you. |
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Method123 Project Management Methodology |
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Method123 have extended their comprehensive range of project management templates by offering a full functioning methodology based on PMBok©®™ and PRINCE2©®™ best practices. Templates for Project Managers to help you Initiate, Plan, Execute and Close projects while managing staff, customers, suppliers, change, risk, issues and quality. 
Project Management Methodology, templates and case studies
The Project Management Kit includes more than 50 Word and Excel documents with over 300 pages of helpful hints, real-life examples, charts and tables. This Kit is suitable for Project and Business Managers, Consultants, Trainers, Students and anyone else interested in managing projects successfully. And download a FREE copy of their Project Management Guidebook from our downloads section. And there's more!PROJECTmagazine has become a certified reseller of Method123 products. And to celebrate we are offering loyal readers of PROJECTmagazine a whopping 10% discount off current prices. Click on the link below and make sure you insert coupon code 070661 in your shopping cart. Good luck!  |
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Designing A New, More Effective Technical Support Team |
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When I inherited the tech support team at a software company seven years ago, we were hemorrhaging angry customers. Since my experience was in sales and retail management, I asked the CEO and VP of Sales what they wanted from the tech support team. They had two answers for me:
- I'm tired of getting yelled at by customers for lousy support.
- I'm tired of seeing salespeople do technical support instead of selling. |
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Project Manager Seeking a New Challenge |
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Leadership Training for New Managers: How to Go From Peer to Manager in 5 Easy Steps |
You've always thought about being in charge. You always wanted to be in the position to make necessary changes and do things smarter.
Now, you just got promoted to manager and have the opportunity you always wanted.
Now what?
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Team Building: Getting together to Win |
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Before we talk about team building, we must have a fair idea of the word “Team”. Team is a collection of people, often from diverse but related groups, assigned to perform a well-defined function for an organization or a project. |
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The Success of a PMO Within an Organisation |
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There are many reasons one can associate to the success and or failure of PMO's, however I am going to explore the more obvious reasons ;
Factors strongly contributing can be listed; the skill of the head of the PMO, the role of the PMO within an organisation not forgetting the open and outward support of PMO. |
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What's Your Cat's Name? a Team-Building Exercise |
Games are an ancient and fun way to get people interacting, even in stressful situations. At one of my seminars, an attendee, Susan Peters of BorgWarner PTC Shared Services, shared this technique that she and her colleagues had found very valuable.
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I have spent most of the last twenty years researching, studying, writing and speaking about Time Management and Personal Productivity. I have learned a whole lot and my full-time mission now is to share that knowledge through my writings, seminars, consulting and keynotes with people who want to get more done in less time in their business and personal lives. |
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Why Projects Fail? The Devil is in the Detail |
Some Hard Lessons from Government IT Projects This article presents some practical insights and challenges encountered during the implementation of major IT projects in the government sector in Arab countries. The primary purpose of this article is to point out the identified pitfalls to the existing body of knowledge from a practitioner's standpoint, as many of the articles published in this regard are published by vendors, consultants, or academics. Each item is discussed to highlight how it impacted the management and the overall performance of projects. They are believed to contribute significantly towards the successful management and implementation of projects, and as valuable lessons that should be recorded in an organisation's knowledge and watch list repository. |
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Problem Solving - The Pareto Principle |
The Pareto principle is named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, who figured out that 80% of the wealth in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. The idea was popularised by the likes of Joseph Juran and Kaoru Ishikawa and become commonly known as the 80/20 rule.
It's a 'rule of thumb', an estimation that for many events 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. |
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