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An R&D Manager Uses Mindjet MindManager To Increase Team Productivity & Work Quality
White Papers The R&D manager replaced his team's hard-to-read spreadsheet formulation trees with formulation maps built with Mindjet MindManager. One of the tasks for the R&D manager for ShawCor Ltd.is to develop new generations of coatings capable of...
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
Team Management: The Art Of Delegation
News As a project manager, you need your team members to handle all the day-to-day problems and only bring items to you on an exception basis. If you really empower your team with decision-making authority, it might seem that they will be able to handle...
[June 28, 2005, 19:25]
A Test Manager’s Output: What Is That?
White Papers Are you a project manager or test manager who feels like you’re in constant motion? While your team works on products, your week is likely filled with meetings, conference calls, email, analysis, and consultation.
[September 22, 2003, 0:00]
What Makes A Good IT Project Manager: Five Keys For Success
White Papers But to a member of the project team, a good project manager may be one who maintains a pleasant daily working environment (rather than one that careens from crisis to crisis). As economic and business factors change, the role of project manager...
[March 24, 2008, 23:00]
How To React When Your Ideas Are Stolen
News The project manager may also feel the team will react better if they think the direction is coming from him. Even more disappointing: the project manager comes to ask me for my ideas and suggestions in private and then presents them as his to the...
[January 28, 2003, 13:21]
Identify The Root Causes Of Problems Before Starting Project Rescue
News This includes talking to many (or all) of the relevant stakeholders involved, including the current project manager, sponsor, key team members, etc. Many of these problems that are expressed will be symptoms and the project manager must perform...
[June 14, 2005, 16:15]
Tech Leaders Reveal Secrets Of Their Success
News As a manager] you move from being focussed on a narrow specialisation to a more generalist role — you go from working on one task to being very multithreaded," he said, at a panel on technology leadership at the Wharton Technology Conference in...
[February 28, 2006, 10:20]
The Weitz Company Selects Prolog Manager
White Papers The Weitz Company is a leading general contractor, design-builder and construction manager. The company has deployed Meridian Project Systems' Prolog Manager company-wide for use on virtually all its projects.
[December 20, 2005, 23:00]
Achieving Executive Balance: Nine Ways Leaders And Managers Work Together
News These demands tie back to established success metrics for the manager, the team, or both. I've watched many good leader/manager pairs working together over the years. The very best manager I ever worked for asked me, "Do you need any help?
[May 17, 2006, 16:20]
Skill Mix Is 'key To IT Hiring'
News Respondents to a recent IT Manager channel poll run on ZDNet Australia have spoken of the need for a mix of technical and 'soft skills' when hiring IT staff. When actually making the hiring decision Montgomery warned that it's important to make...
[April 8, 2003, 15:59]
Improve Performance Reviews With These Tips
News Any manager worthy of the title is going to project some level of openness to the team, and some indication of an investment in the success of its members. Performance reviews are one of the ugly realities in a manager's life.
[December 2, 2002, 12:24]
Proactive Project Management
News While a good project manager completes the initial Project Definition charter) because it's required by the organisation, a proactive project manager understands that the project must be defined ahead of time and if it isn't, the team won't have a...
[November 16, 2005, 15:20]
Google Maps Out Plan For Mobile Success
News Dave Burke, technical lead and manager for mobile engineering at Google, explained how the team has tailored the search application to work more effectively on mobile devices. Google Mobile group product manager, Hugo Barra, said that a great user...
[May 14, 2008, 8:40]
Debian Developers Call For More Releases
News Garrett recognised the severity of the situation in his statement, saying that if he was elected he would "liaise with the security team and stable release manager to ensure that our users are not left needing to upgrade excessively or left...
[March 18, 2005, 14:50]
VTiger Launches Open Source CRM
News Govind Pattabi, product manager of vTiger, told ZDNet UK that vTiger is based on the code of SugarCRM 1.0 and includes various additional features, such as an Outlook plug-in. Govind Pattabi, product manager of vTiger, said that vTiger is based on...
[December 31, 2004, 11:40]
MS Shows Corner Of Mac Office Road Map
News Irving Kwong, product manager for the MBU, emphasized that the new Office remains a "work in progress. Kwong also demonstrated a new component of the suite: an integrated e-mail, scheduling and personal information manager (PIM) application.
[April 27, 2000, 14:41]
Kopernicus: Linux Is Made Easy
News Kopernicus includes the Konqueror Web browser and file manager, the first release of KOffice, an integrated office suite, KParts component object tools, and other elements aimed at both developers and end users.
[October 25, 2000, 7:34]
Is Project Management All Administration?
News In addition, the project team may or may not report functionally to the project manager. The project team members may report to a different manager for things like performance reviews, while reporting to the project manager for their workload.
[November 29, 2002, 15:00]
Making The Transition From Developer To Manager
News Likewise, as a manager, you need to know what your team's expectations are of you. A good way to measure your success as a manager is to ask your team how you're doing in helping them grow. So, as a senior developer, I wanted to be a manager in...
[June 24, 2002, 9:56]
Italian Hackers: Business Or Leisure?
News Those arrested included four minors, the security manager of a large Italian ISP, a network security manager for a computer consulting company, and several IT consultants. Dario Forte, who heads the forensics team at the Guardia di finanza Milano...
[August 5, 2002, 12:04]
