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Master these 10 processes to sharpen your project management skills
White Papers Various project management methodologies organize and structure work processes differently, but the key areas in this list always require attention to ensure success. The bigger and more complex a project gets, the more you need formal processes...
[May 16, 2006, 4:48]
Management Skills
Downloads You are ONLY as good as the sum total of the teamThe best leaders are constantly learning.YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:Design focused and productive teams Bring the right people togetherDo more with less peopleCreate lasting team bonds and loyaltyFind...
[June 18, 2003, 8:00]
IBM's Objective Metrics - A Knowledge Company's Approach to Skills Inventory Management
White Papers In 2001, IBM's Americas IT Specialist Profession Discipline Leader set out to implement an online skills measurement system that would improve IBM's ability to pinpoint that knowledge. The skills measurement strategy began with a need to improve...
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Accommodating Soft Skills in Software Project Management
White Papers This paper summarizes the soft skills that can possibly improve the success rate of software projects. Research in the field of soft skills required has been carried out at the University of Arkansas.
[July 9, 2007, 5:44]
Techies' poor business skills impede progress
News Poor communication, leadership and project-management skills among IT staff are hindering change management and business transformation programmes. Almost three-quarters (73 percent) of chief information officers and IT managers admit that the...
[June 27, 2007, 17:07]
Tackling today's five most dangerous IT management trends
News IT managers who lose their jobs usually do so not because of a lack of technical skills, but because of deficits in management, leadership and strategy skills. Remember, these trends are dangerous, but strategy, management, and leadership skills...
[August 14, 2006, 12:55]
Gov't dept makes web rationalisation step
News The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has obtained a content management system that could support a more streamlined web publishing strategy. It will also make them less vulnerable to losing skills if the people who set up and manage...
[November 12, 2009, 11:22]
HP-developed degree aims to close UK's IT skills gap
News Hybrid IT/business courses have also been championed by technology industry skills body e-skills UK, which most recently supported the creation of an Information Technology Management for Business degree which combines technology learning with...
[August 7, 2008, 12:06]
New tech degree to include legacy app migration
News Cobol migration specialist Micro Focus announced on Wednesday that it has joined e-skills UK’s Employer Strategy Forum (ESF) for the Information Technology Management in Business (ITMB) degree course.
[August 22, 2007, 17:22]
Just-in-Time Training - Using a Model of Project Results Versus Team Enablers to Identify Post-PMP Training
White Papers This paper confirms the importance of "soft" project management skills and concludes that one needs to train the appropriate people (those with some experience) at the appropriate time (when they have the need and interest) in the appropriate way...
[December 13, 2005, 0:01]
Project managers: Well paid but for how long?
News According to the latest Skill-o-Meter figures, provided for silicon.com by the TheSkillsMarket, all project management skills have declined in value over the last 12 months. Project management skills suffer particularly badly in a downturn," said...
[August 16, 2002, 10:47]
How One Healthcare Organization Uses Objective Metrics to Improve Project Management
White Papers Developed by leading online skills assessment provider Brainbench, the solution is now giving Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's East Region a solid foundation of objective data for identifying and improving critical project management skills.
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Remote working 'will be the death of the middle manager'
News Middle managers are facing the chop because they lack the skills to manage teams of flexible and remote workers. It warns that if economic conditions tighten, then managers without the skills to manage these dispersed teams will be the first to go.
[May 24, 2005, 17:30]
Financial sector suffering IT skills shortfall
News The IT skills most in demand in the FS industry are (in order of most sought-after first): programming languages, IT management and Linux. The most hankered-after non-IT skills are: knowledge of sector and project management, followed by leadership.
[December 16, 2008, 8:18]
Micro Focus: IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills
News The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernising key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. According to the study, published on Monday, there is a shortage of IT skills across Europe and the...
[December 1, 2008, 17:11]
Lafarge Optimizes Career-Planning Management for Its Staff
White Papers Oracle allowed the company to globally manage, on a centralized system, the entire needs in terms of HR management for the group's 16,000 managers' careers, profiles, skills and recruitments management.
[September 11, 2009, 1:59]
IT-business degree spawns first graduates
News The Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) BSc degree, which was designed by universities and employers in the IT industry with the support of IT-sector skills body e-skills UK, focuses on areas such as project management and how to...
[July 25, 2008, 15:32]
NHS IT: A critical case for treatment
Talkback And then you need to combine that with great leadership, project and program management skills. So after a while they'll need to be send to the frontlines again to keep their skills sharp. Combined with great insights in financials, logistics...
[November 14, 2005, 22:09]
Gartner: 'Application-delivery architects' are key hires
News It's suited to someone with a broad background that includes some security experience, but also someone who has skills in performance-tuning and management," said Skorupa. In a research note released last week, Gartner stated that so-called...
[March 26, 2008, 16:19]
Hard choices in hard times: Moving to business management
News My thinking was that if I ever became one of those people who had been in tech for so long that they were completely burned out by the constant demand to change their skills, I'd be able to use those management skills in other industries.
[September 24, 2002, 9:05]
