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- Use this process to estimate a project's effort hours
- Once you understand the effort that's required for a project, you can assign resources to determine how long the project will take and estimate labor and non-labor costs. Here's a process you can use to estimate the total effort required for your project. by Tom Mochal
- Tags: Project, Estimate, Effort Hour, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Photos: Rare books resurrected online
- At the British Library, software called Turning the Pages brings new and sparkling digital life to old works, including Alice's Adventures Under Ground. by CNET News.com
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, Tools & Techniques, Management, CNET News.com, news, books
- Image galleries 2008-08-01
- Install extra packages on the ASUS Eee PC
- Installing extra packages on the Asus Eee PC is possible if you want more software than the average user. Vincent Danen explains how to set up Xandros repositories to make it easier to add packages. by Vincent Danen
- Tags: ASUS, PC, Xandros, Vincent Danen, Pin-Priority, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Desktops, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Don't be a "prideful" PM consultant
- Too much pride can be a bad thing for project management PM consultants. Is your ego getting in the way of your client's best interest? A TechRepublic member has a wake-up call for you with five characteristics of a puffed-up PM consultant. by Beth Blakely
- Tags: Consultant, Project Manager, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Team Management, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Beth Blakely
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Are you "The Decider"?
- Just because you're an IT *leader*, it doesn't mean you necessarily get to make the ultimate decision. Take our poll and see where you compare with other TechRepublic members in your powers of decision enforcement. by John Sheesley
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Blog, Decision-making, Tools & Techniques, Blogging, Management, Internet, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- T-shirt of the week: Coffee power
- Look, we all know that more or less every piece of software on Earth owes its existence to one thing and one thing only: coder fuel, AKA coffee. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Coffee, Tools & Techniques, Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Manage project time requirements with these methods
- If you're trying to get a handle on project time requirements, these project management methods will put you in a better position to come away with a plan that you can explain and execute. by Bill Stronge
- Tags: Project, Project Manager, Activity, PERT, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Bill Stronge
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- SaaS gets a new player in the market, but is the cloud ready for prime time?
- Microsoft has entered the Software as a Service SaaS market in a major way. While Google Apps is just trying to get people to try their service, Microsoft has opened up the doors to hosted Exchange, Sharepoint, Communications, LiveMeeting, and CRM software. by Andy Moon
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Sanity check: Five things we have learned from Bill Gates
- With the Bill Gates era coming to an end at Microsoft, this is the perfect opportunity to look back and examine five preeminent lessons we have learned from the world's greatestcomputer geek. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Making a case: How to become a thought leader and influence decisions
- Decision making has been a popular topic of academic research and best-selling business books, due, perhaps, to an apparently fascinating fact: seemingly intelligent people are perfectly capable of making blatantly stupid decisions. Here's how to avoid being in that group. by Ilya Bogorad
- Tags: Information Technology, Leader, Benefit, Decision-making, Decision Criteria, Ilya Bogorad, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- With Android delay, Google officially joins fraternity of big software developers
- Google Android will be delayed until a fourth quarter launch with T-Mobile, and a 2009 arrival with other carriers. Now that it's in the software business, Google is facing the same kind of product delay pressures that dog Microsoft, Apple, and other tech vendors. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Google Android, Mobile, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Marketing, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Photos: Software clears flights for takeoff
- A visit to Adacel, which develops software primarily aimed at the air traffic control industry. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Software, TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, Aerospace & Defense, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Management, CNET News.com, news, adacel, airplanes
- Image galleries 2008-06-16
- Supporting user applications like AutoCAD
- I've written about many aspects and challenges of providing user support, but I've seldom if ever delved into the additional challenges of supporting the primary user applications -- specialized software that's vital for the function of the business. In my case, those applications are Autodesk products, specifically, AutoCAD MEP and...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, AutoCAD, Hardware, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Joe Rosberg
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Cisco Unified Communications Project Management
- Instantly save $400 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends August 22, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsLearn how to manage a Cisco Unified Communications UC project by using Cisco's best practices and processes for successful UC solution deployment..You'll learn the project...
- Tags: Cisco Unified Communications System, Cisco Systems Inc., UC, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Training 2008-06-01
- Business Intelligence, Business Process Improvement and more
- There are a ton of buzzwords out there: IT/business alignment (I hate this term, by the way), business intelligence, business process improvement, and the list goes on... and on. Moving forward, I will become intimately familiar with these buzzwords as well as the meaning behind them. A...
- Tags: Business Process, Information Technology, Payroll, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Scott Lowe
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Use enterprise dashboards to speed up and improve business decision making
- In this interview with Shadan Malik, the founder of iDashboards, learn: How business intelligence BI can leverage the huge amounts of data that most companies are now producing and collecting How enterprise dashboards can improve and speed up business decision-making How the BI market...
- Tags: Dashboard, Podcasts, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Internet, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- New software doesn't always mean better software
- When a software company releases a new version of a product, in theory, the product is supposed to improve. Ideally, the software becomes faster, is easier to use, and maybe includes a few features that make it more useful along the way. More often than not, what...
- Tags: Software, Version, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Not Invented Here has no place in open source development
- Last week, many Debian users got something of a shock when they realized that encryption keys for OpenSSH, OpenSSL, and OpenVPN have all been vulnerable to relatively easy compromise for a while. Previously, I discussed how you can detect and replace vulnerable SSH keys on Debian, and Vincent Danen...
- Tags: Software, OpenSSL, Developer, Team, Problem, Debian, Tool, Ssl/Tls, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Security, Management, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- A primer on projects, programs, and portfolios
- Tom Mochal answers a question about project management terminology from a TechRepublic member. Question I have worked at companies where a program manager was assigned to manage all major development. In these situations, the project manager had little authority and was often relegated to administrative duties,...
- Tags: Project, Project Manager, Tom Mochal, Projects, Portfolios Portfolios, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- The view from the management side
- I have been asked on occasion "what is the worst thing about being a CIO or Director?" My answer is that there is no one "worst thing" and for the most part, at least for me, there are more good days than bad days. But there has been...
- Tags: Ladder, Organization, Professional Development, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Career, Management, Ramon Padilla
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
