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- Three tricks for staying abreast of changes in your project environment
- The way that projects drift down from on-high is, for me at least, one of the most frustrating things about project management. Im not very good at simply doing what I am told. I like to know why a change should be made, what impact it will have,...
- Tags: Choices, Foundations, Frameworks, Google, Information Overload, Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Labor Shortage, Long Term Goals, Management, Management Skills, Practices, Project, Project Management, Uncategorized, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- A brief polemic about vision
- If you have not seen “Bridge to Terabithia”, I strongly suggest that you do. Its a good movie on a lot of levels. Its good family fun. It will resonate with anyone who survived grade school. It contains the most important of all possible lessons...
- Tags: vision
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- A checklist for determining whether your project management office will accomplish anything useful today
- Project Management Offices PMOs recently became standard fixture of the corporate landscape. Corporations with them spend lavishly to keep their project managers up on the latest trends. Corporations without them spend lavishly to attract the regions best and brightest project managers to a promised land where project...
- Tags: project management, Project Management Office, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- How to destroy a project team in four easy steps
- This will be a short blog entry this week. My wife just gave birth to our first daughter and Im not thinking too much about project management or work. Really, Im not thinking about anything other than sitting around looking at the marvel my wife has brought into...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Management Style, Management Skills, Violation Of Trust, Wisdom, Management, team
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- Exploring the relationship between project management and sales
- Some of us are blessed enough to work in an environment we know and love. We have an extensive network of contacts built up over years of fraternizing. We know all of the players, their relationships with one another, and our relationships with them. The people who...
- Tags: IM, job, Project Management, Project Manager, sales, Uncategorized, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Pay attention to the small details rather than worrying about big events
- Theres a huge list of books telling us “Dont Sweat the Small Stuff”. They are, uniformly, well-written and uplifting to read. However, for project management, they kind of miss the point. Project management isnt about not sweating the small stuff; its about paying attention to all of...
- Tags: adjustment, Project Management, Project Manager, Uncategorized, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- A New Year in project management
- So, its the start of another year as a professional project manager and consultant. Another year to spend dealing with deadlines, negotiating for resources, and mitigating risks before they become issues. Another year of project teams, insane pressure, and punctuated progress masked under mass hysteria. Definitely something...
- Tags: Project Management, Project Manager, Uncategorized, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Dealing with the three components of project time
- If time is an illusion and lunch time doubly so why do we refer to it as one of the three sides of project managements iron triangle? We certainly have the ability to negotiate time, to allow it to pass quickly or slowly in a subjective sense, and to...
- Tags: Project Management, Project Manager, Project Planning, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
Additional Resources
- Good consultants know when to be "invisible"
- Sometimes you need to take a backseat to the client team so that they can fully develop the skills they'll need after you're gone. Shannon Kalvar describes becoming an "invisible consultant" in order to allow a client to become the star of the project. by Shannon Kalvar
- Tags: Project, Team, Consultant, Consulting, Shannon Kalvar, Larry, Team Management, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- New home of project management blog
- Shannon Kalvar, an experienced project manager and long-time TechRepublic contributor will be offering his unique viewpoints, sharing his trials and tribulations, and giving some gems of advice in this new blog devoted solely to managing your projects better. Look for Shannon's first post very soon. by Toni Bowers
- Tags: Project Management, Blog, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Lessons learned the hard way in an architectural document disaster
- Delivering project reports in radically different formats gave the client a bad impression of this consulting firm. Here's how the staff remedied the situation and learned from their mistake. by Shannon Kalvar
- Tags: Team, Client, Jim, Team Management, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Proving to business leaders that new technology is not just a gimmick
- Learn how to overcome the resistance of business leaders to new technology projects through more effective communication. by Shannon Kalvar
- Tags: Gimmick, Information Technology, Leader, Manager, Productivity, Leadership, Strategy, Operational Planning, Management, Business Operations, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Dealing with a mistrustful client
- A CIO hires a consultant to examine the feasibility of outsourcing his IT team. When the consultant tries to handle the inevitable bad feelings of the in-house team, he finds that this extreme challenge also raises ethical questions. by Shannon Kalvar
- Tags: Team, CIO, Consultant, Agent, Team Management, Management, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- A consultant's technical pride causes his team considerable delays
- Don't make this consultant's mistake: taking on project issues that don't suit your technical abilities. Letting your team apply its strengths to project work will allow you to focus on planning and management duties, and you'll all meet your deadlines. by Shannon Kalvar
- Tags: Team, Leadership, Problem, Team Management, Servers, Management, Hardware, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Track the behavior of your system with Windows Vista's Reliability Monitor
- What's up with the banners?It seems that on TR the banners don't belong with the article or blog that is being presented, anymore. I started noticing this when they introduced the new enlarged banners with photos, about a month ago.In this case, the article is the Windows Vista Report...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), tct, Shannon Kalvar, Steven Warren, Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista Report, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- Long-term planning in a short-term world: The acquisition stance
- To effectively link corporate strategy to actual projects, IT departments need to understand the interplay between strategic stances, synergy, and time horizons. In the final installment of his series on strategic planning, Shannon Kalvar looks at how these concepts interrelate and takes a look at the particular challenges of the...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Acquisition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations
- Download resources 2005-06-13
- 9 things IT managers should think about in 2007
- The new year represents an opportunity for IT managers to evaluate their accomplishments and sift through their less successful projects and relationships in an effort to get things moving in the right direction. IT consultant Shannon Kalvar offers some advice that will help you keep things on track in...
- Tags: IT manager, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2006-12-20
- 10 IT manager resolutions for 2006: A look back
- Last December, IT consultant Shannon Kalvar prepared to kick off the new year with a list of ambitious improvement goals and best practices for becoming a more effective IT manager. Now, as the year winds down, he revisits his resolutions and assesses how well he and his peers were...
- Tags: IT manager, Resolution, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2006-12-14
- Pigs aloft
- TechRepublic contributor Shannon Kalvar recently pointed meto RFC 1925, which many of you no doubt already know about. Nestled between RFC 1924(A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses) and RFC 1926 An ExperimentalEncapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM lies this list of "The 12Networking Truths," which seem to be...
- Tags: NETWORKING, RFC, Shannon Kalvar, It is Hard
- Blog posts 2005-12-19
- Experts' view: Strategies for making your meetings effective and useful
- Every so often, you may find yourself walking out of a meeting feeling hopeful and energized by the ground that was covered, the ideas that emerged, and the issues that were resolved. A meeting like that doesn't happen by accident: Someone took the time to consider and define its purpose...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Expert, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Policies And Procedures, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources
- Download resources 2006-08-01
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