Project Management

“Heads Up” Project Management

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Driving home from rugby practice last week I started thinking about something the coach said. It is a phrase that anyone who has played sports has heard. Play “heads up”. Our rugby coach wanted us to keep our heads up to see what was going on around the pitch while we played to look for opportunities [...]

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Book Review: Rework

I have been keeping a eye on the team over at 37Signals for a long time. I have read their Signal vs. Noise blog for quite some time. I also use their products Basecamp and Highrise to manage projects and contacts. The founders, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, recently released the book Rework. I [...]

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Documentation: A Love Hate Relationship

Jen McCown (Blog | Twitter) recently asked some tough questions about documentation in her blog post Documentation. Tag, your it! As a consultant I live and die by documentation. When I come into a engagement and things have been well documented my life is easier. More often than not the converse is true. Stance on [...]

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MS Project Server and Backup Best Practices

Microsoft’s Project is a very standard project management tool that most Project Managers are all to familiar with. While Project is a great application it was limited to local information. Microsoft’s Project Server extends Project’s capabilities and allows the sharing of resources and information across an Enterprise. Project Server 2007 is built around the SharePoint [...]

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