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Project Management

Are You Limited by Your Own Creativity (Which used to work earlier but now not)?

March 8, 2011

Though it brings rewards in the end, most of us are afraid of challenging our own thought patterns as if it were an invasive brain surgery. We’re designed this way, right? Wrong. But yes, we’re conditioned this way. Few weeks ago I had a weekend discussion with one of my friends who shares a rare frequency [...]

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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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Assured Results 7

October 1, 2010

Decide to do something; Then take a pen and a paper, even paper-napkin will work and doesn’t matter if the pen is a borrowed one; Write a Goal to work on – make sure it is SMART; Write down the steps you will take to achieve that goal; Assign the deadline to the goal; Follow [...]

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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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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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