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- TechRepublic's Project Manager Hiring Kit
- Updated with all new content! Our IT Hiring Kit for Project Managers will help you interview, evaluate, and select suitable candidates for a Project Manager position. This kit comes with a detailed job description, interview questions, a candidate assessment spreadsheet, classified ad text, and offer and rejection letters....
- Tags: Hiring, TechRepublic Inc., Project Manager, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Download resources 2008-04-30
- Gaming Company Gets Projects Back on Track: Korean Gaming Leader Saves Money With Help From Project Management Software
- As a project manager for Korean gaming leader Webzen, Huh oversees 63 game developers working on a number of projects. Keeping these talented creative types motivated, yet on schedule, is a precarious balancing act. Since its founding in 2000, in Seoul, Korea, Webzen has grown to be a global digital...
- Tags: Webzen, Project Manager, Game Company, Microsoft Corp., Project Management, Games, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Personal Technology, Management
- Case studies
- Case Study: PM Success Takes More Than Software
- Bell Helicopter has been building choppers since 1943. When Bell Helicopter bought a project management package, it quickly discovered that software by itself isn't enough. What it really needed was a consistent, companywide strategy for planning, implementing and measuring the progress of IT projects. The key to being able to...
- Tags: Software, Project Manager, Jupitermedia Corp., Bell Helicopter, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Case studies
- Project Manager
- This webcast, one in a series, shows how Select Process Director can help one to move his or her company from CMMI Level 1 to Level 5.
- Tags: Project Manager, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Preparing the Organization to Embrace ERP
- The client, a large public water district, was in the process of evaluating and selecting an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system. They required an executive level project manager to oversee business process mapping, conduct research and develop vendor profiles, facilitate communications between the ERP team and the enterprise, and develop...
- Tags: Project Manager, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Microsoft Office Programs on the Go Increase Consultant's Productivity
- The project manager of InterSpace Computers, Inc. spends a lot of time travelling or at customer locations. One of his biggest customers is the United States Army, for which he supports a network of 1,200 desktop and server computers that are used to conduct battle simulations at Fort Knox in...
- Tags: Project Manager, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Servers, Office Suites, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Project management screw-up number 1: Failing to address the right problem
- In his book The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass, Lonnie Pacelli talks about the most common pitfalls encountered in any project. Each chapter of the book covers one common pitfall in a like format: - "How...
- Tags: Project Manager, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Don't wait to address performance problems on a project
- Most project managers have had to deal with performance problems on a project at one point in their careers. Such issues are usually uncomfortable adventures for the project manager. This uncomfortable feeling usually has two causes: The project manager is usually not the functional manager of the...
- Tags: Team, Performance, Project Manager, Performance Problem, Team Member, Team Management, Performance Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Project management skills enhance IT career
- One IT job role that is continually stressed in the results of TechRepublic's 2008 Skills and Salary Report is project leader. It comes in at number four on the list of job functions by salary, and the author of the survey says that the IT field is seeing more demand...
- Tags: Information Technology, Career, Project Manager, Manage, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Supervise larger projects with a schedule management plan
- As your project grows larger, your project management processes need to become more rigorous and structured. (The reverse is also true: Processes should be simpler for smaller projects.) Normally, the process used to update and manage a project schedule is pretty clear. For example, you might receive...
- Tags: Project, Team, Project Manager, Schedule, Schedule Management Plan, Management Plan, Team Management, Project Management, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Collaborate Effectively With Your Team
- Project managers rely on the team to help create all kinds of important project documents. The team produces project plans, risk management plans, presentations, reports, and a host of other documents. Project managers present this material to customers. They are sent for approval to upper management. Often, these are maintained...
- Tags: Team, Project Manager, Risk Management, Team Management, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Management, Finance
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Real Project 2007 (zip)
- Real Project 2007 is to let Project Manager manage their project easier and to increase the successful rate of project completion. More than Gantt Chart - It provides an ease of use interface for project manager to create Workbreakdown Structure WBS, Gantt Chart, Team Chart and Communication Plan. In addition,...
- Tags: Project Manager, Work Breakdown Structure, Real Project 2007, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-17
- Project Manager .NET Professional (exe)
- Project Manager .NET Professional is an easy to use Project Management tool designed for those who need something without complexity to help them manage and complete projects of any type. It is suited for both small and large projects, for personal and business use. Projects and Milestones help you organize...
- Tags: Project, Project Manager, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- Project Manager Software (exe)
- Online Web Based Project Management Software that can also be downloaded to a PC. You can download a project management methodology complete with templates, examples and case studies. This methodology helps you manage projects faster and easier than before. Using the project management templates set, you can create project deliverables...
- Tags: Software, Project Manager, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Software downloads 2007-12-21
- Three tricks for dealing with the holidays as a consulting Project Manager
- Travel costs have skyrocketed. No one is available to finish off those last ugly bits of work before the budgets run out. Everyone seems to want to hang out with their families, generally in inaccessible places, rather than burn the midnight oil finishing off our wildly out of...
- Tags: Team, Holiday, Project Manager, Consulting, Team Management, Management, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Phoenix Project Manager (3)
- Phoenix Project Manager is the brain child of Poulsen Construction Management , a company with 30+ years of experience in the scheduling industry. It is scheduling software designed and written by schedulers. Phoenix Project Manager produces solid schedules with ease. The foundation of the system is based on the Critical...
- Tags: Phoenix Technologies, Project Manager, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-11-02
- MS Project Tool 2003 Addin (zip)
- With smart open through your projects by search text or by Project Manager. Rename your projects. Alerts Project manager when is about to delete an assignment, task or resource with pending hours in Project web access Timesheet. Bulk checking all your projects with clicking just one button. Change project manager...
- Tags: Project, Addin, Project Manager, Assignment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-10-24
- 10+ project management mistakes (and what you can learn from them)
- It may seem as though the high-pressure field of IT project management doesn't tolerate slip-ups, but carelessness is different from failing while trying to do your best. If you (or that rookie project manager you're training) can learn from your mistakes, you might be able to prevent big projects from...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Project Manager, Mistake, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Download resources 2007-10-09
- Three ways Project Managers give in to threats
- We live in a corporate environment and indeed a social one where the fear of personal, financial, or political harm counts for more than the honest calculation of risk. Economists are slowly starting to key onto this with their calculations of "perceived risk"; priests, theologians, and mothers everywhere probably...
- Tags: Project Manager, Threat, Tools & Techniques, Management, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- 10 signs that you aren't cut out to be a Project Manager
- You've all seen top 10 lists of the best traits of a project manager or the top 10 skills of a project manager. However, project management is not for everyone. Many people have some of the traits to be a good project manager, but they also have many traits that...
- Tags: Trait, Project Manager, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Blogging, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Internet
- Download resources 2007-09-19
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