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Project Management

What Every Project Manager Wants to Know About Vacation-Planning?

November 30, 2010

Managing Software projects is a postulating job. Apart from being the face of the project, you may be the only person without a backup. It becomes challenging to plan some time off when you don’t have a backup. Many times, inexperienced project managers find it very difficult planning their vacations or even if they have [...]

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How Much Do You Invest In Building Trust In Your Project Team?

November 11, 2010

Can you precisely answer this question: “Do you have ample amount of trust amongst your project team?” May be…May be No. It becomes very difficult to manage projects when team members do not have good amount of trust among one another.   They would see everything happening in and on the project with skeptical eyes. [...]

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If You Want to Have a Great Project Team

September 24, 2010

… then focus on having a great project team. You can learn about how to have a great project team may be from a book or a senior colleague but the best way to truly learn it is to start building one. Focus on learning by doing. Read on for some tips on the same and [...]

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Profit from Conflicts!

September 9, 2010

A zero-conflict workplace is like living in fool’s paradise and wiser is one who is able to make profit even from the conflicts. To do that, your primary focus should be on how to prevent it. Once, Max Lucade wrote, “Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” So prevent it. Here are some tips: Have people [...]

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7 Acts of Poor Managers Who Gift Cancer to Their People, Their Clients and Their Businesses

July 1, 2010

In my decade long course of learning, unlearning and relearning  business and its management, I’ve observed different kind of managers. Good and bad;  effective and ineffective; powerful and poor. Different. Today I’m going to expel about some of the common acts; one or more usually found in the managers who can be classified as ‘poor’ [...]

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