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"PROJECT MANAGEMENT TODAY" BACK ISSUES
December 4, 2006 Volume 1, Issue 12

Featured Articles:

  • Very Exciting News!
  • Real Life MS Project: Take Back Control  -Alex S. Brown
  • Cargo Cult Project Management
  • Six Sigma still pays off at Motorola

Linked Articles:

  • 15 Immutable laws of project management
  • Project management best practices (pdf)
  • Project management proverbs (funny stuff)
  • The PMPrepcast
  • Need to prepare for the PMP?  Try PreparePM (free)
November 15, 2006 Volume 1, Issue 11

Featured Articles:

  • 10 Benefits of Project Server 2007
  • 10 Ways to kill a project
  • New study links technology use to lower defect rates (Six Sigma)

Linked Articles:

  • 128 Lessons learned by a NASA Project Manager
  • New certification for MS Project has been announced
  • Project estimating: good, bad and in the ballpark
  • Project Management PREPcast
  • Preparing for the PMP Exam?  Try PreparePM.
November 3, 2006 Volume 1, Issue 10

Featured Articles:

  • Project Templates and Project Guides
  • Plan ahead for critical resource contingencies
  • More customer satisfaction, less scope creep

Linked Articles:

  • The Project Management Prepcast
  • Need to prepare for the PMP, try out www.preparePM.com
  • Program Management certification info
  • Project management, past, present and future
  • Need Project templates?
October 18, 2006 • Volume 1, Issue 9

Featured Articles:

  • Out with the PMOld, in with the PMProfessional
  • Think you're worth more as a PM?  Charge for it.  WebProNews
  • Going LEAN streamlines processes, empowers staff and enhances care. Hospitals and Health Networks

Linked Articles:

  • Podcast: Simple Earned Value Management
  • Need to prepare for the PMP, try out www.preparePM.com
  • Time lapse video of a house being built in 3.5 hours
  • ERP Project management basics
  • Need Project templates?
October 4, 2006 • Volume 1, Issue 8

Featured Articles:

  • Microsoft Project Association comes to Birmingham, by Cory Casella
  • How to run IT like a Business, CIO Magazine
  • Theory of Constraints, LEAN, Six Sigma, Compared,  Reliable Plant

Linked Articles:

  • Podcast: Project management basics, typically overlooked
  • Microsoft Project 2007 Preview site
  • Video: The ultimate trick to software project management
  • Intro to catastrophe disentanglement
  • Need Project templates?
September 18, 2006 • Volume 1, Issue 7

Featured Articles:

  • Comparing Microsoft's EPM Solutions, 2003 vs. 2007, by Cory Casella
  • Charm (the other trait PMs need).
  • Mercury completes 1000th Six Sigma Project

Linked Articles:

  • Podcast: Intro to Earned Value
  • Project management for the developer
  • Video:  Clip from NBC's "The Office"
  • Nice ideas, shame about the implementation
  • Need Project templates?
September, 7, 2006 • Volume 1, Issue 6

Featured Articles:

  • Supercharge your EPM Environment, by Duncan Lamb
  • Running with Change, Gantthead.com
  • Driving Incremental Value through LEAN/Six Sigma

Linked Articles:

  • Customizable project management methodology on the way
  • Project management for the developer
  • Video: Cube Wars
  • Senior PM certification now available
  • Need Project templates?
August 17, 2006 • Volume 1, Issue 5

Featured Articles:

  • Ten Principles for EPM, Part 2 of 2, by Duncan Lamb
  • Best Practices for Project Management, Express Computer Online
  • What does Six Sigma have to do with Sales?  Managing Information Strategies

Linked Articles:

  • The importance of culture change
  • Project management for the developer
  • Video: Cube Wars
  • PMP gains strength
  • Start with "simple" earned value on all your projects
August 1, 2006 • Volume 1, Issue 4

Featured Articles:

  • Ten Principles for EPM, Part 1 of 2, by Duncan Lamb
  • Finding Value in Project Compliance, Gantthead.com
  • Ready for Six Sigma?  American Machinist

Linked Articles:

  • Navy lauds first group of Six Sigma black belts
  • PM Jetsetters
  • US ousts Iraq hospital contractor
  • Project management for the developer
  • Shuttle Atlantis to visit space station
  • Measuring Up: Project management successfully
July 17, 2006 • Volume 1, Issue 3

Featured Articles:

  • EPM Best Practices, Duncan Lamb, Principal, Craig Lamb & Singletary, Inc.
  • Three new reports indicate positive results of PMI credentials in IT, PMI.org.
  • Six Sigma is the most powerful improvement methodolgy, Dr. Habib Siddiqui, Six Sigma expert and Master Black Belt at a multi-national chemical company.

Linked Articles:

  • Manufacturing Execution System (MES) improves plant performance
  • LEAN and Mean? An article in Time about the military's adoption of Six Sigma.
  • Is your PMP going to expire in December?  Tips for renewal
  • Project management for the developer (webcast link for August 22).
June 30, 2006 • Volume 1, Issue 2

Featured Articles:

  • Best Practices for tracking and updating progress in Project Server, msProjectExperts Blog
  • Red light, green light: How one CIO used project management discipline and traffic light report..., Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie, CIO Pacific Blue Cross
  • Making a success out of simplifying things

Linked Articles:

  • PMO Whitepaper, Taking your PMO to the next level
  • Lean mean Six Sigma machines: Electronics companies using Six Sigma
  • IT Departments face a lack of Project Management know-how
  • Project management for the developer (webcast link for August 22).
June 12, 2006 • Volume 1, Issue 1

Featured Articles:

  • How to Modify a Sharepoint Template for Project Server, Gord Schmidt's Blog
  • Five Simple Ways to Kill a Project, Kathleen Melymuka, ComputerWorld
  • Six Sigma in Small Business, Tony Jackowski, iSixSigma.

Linked Articles:

  • How to promote good project management
  • Who are the true leaders in project management
  • Project manager success criteria
  • IT governance, overcoming the triple threat

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