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If you don’t want to miss an update or if you want to keep an eye out when my posting activity is low, this is for you. Please enter your email address:. A Document Template Checklist. Coming in March 8-10: The Project Management Telesummit. Six Horrible Security Mistakes. Are You Handling Other People’s Secrets? GrowthStories helps businesses to design and optimise their services for a social and networked world. How to Manage a Camel – PM and recruitement. The Lazy Project Manager. 24 Essential Website...
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A Document Template Checklist
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A Document Template Checklist. A Document Template Checklist. Dec 23rd, 2011 by. When you’re streamlining a recurring activity, templates are a great way of standardizing document layout and saving time. They’re also a very efficient way to confuse and bug people while looking really official for no particular reason … like the TPS reports from Office Space. They hope the template will be clear enough to anyone to illustrate all the activity that surrounds it, this happens a lot. What will you use. How m...
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Six Horrible Security Mistakes
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Six Horrible Security Mistakes. Six Horrible Security Mistakes. Oct 16th, 2010 by. Horrible security mistakes that could have been avoided by better management, practically as well as culturally. I’ve collected a few real life examples for you that show how vulnerable companies are to confidentiality risks if no proper attention is payed to it. Try googling for confidentiality disclaimers like this document is confidential. It’s all about awareness. Watch those account credentials. At one of my clients, ...
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Integrity Sometimes Means Keeping Your Mouth Shut
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Oct 1st, 2010 by. In my observations of successful leaders I noticed that they never, ever gave offence to anyone. They where charismatic and tactful. This is very important to get results from people. Most of the time this means thinking before you react. Here are some good examples:. Talking with someone outside of a group if you have to tell them they did a bad job. Reacting appropriately to personal attacks, usually by ignoring the attacker. Steering discussions away from inflammatory subjects. Very ...
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Blink Helps You Make Better Decisions
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Blink Helps You Make Better Decisions. Blink Helps You Make Better Decisions. Mar 22nd, 2011 by. Enjoy a good read and want a leg up in actively developing an instinct for making good decisions? Then you’ll love this book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. These are my take-aways from the book. Truly successful decision making relies on a good balance between deliberate thinking and instinctive thinking. Prejudice influences the perception of quality more than we might think. GrowthStories h...
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Journeyman Project Manager: Sharing Project Management Experience
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Project Management Elements MindMap. Mar 14th, 2011 by. What is required to practice successful project management? What are the elements of good project management? Every once in a while I look back and reflect on what I know about project management and what I’ve seen work. An integral part of this, is putting down my mental model. And there’s no better way to do that than with a mindmap. I’m offering the full mindmap in several formats. Coming in March 8-10: The Project Management Telesummit. If you j...
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The Cost of Turnover
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The Cost of Turnover. The Cost of Turnover. Jan 12th, 2012 by. With specialist profiles the cost of turnover is almost always vastly underestimated. Keeping the good people on board and motivated. Look at this type of situations as a risk. It’s what’s often called the truck number. Or more respectfully, the lottery number. Should you be dealing with this kind of risk, look into Brook’s law. I found this great list of the cost that a lost employee will bring along:. To to find a replacement. To train the ...
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Checklists - Journeyman PM
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24 Essential Website Project Analysis Questions. Dec 30th, 2011 by. This article is about starting out a website project and asking the most effective questions. When you’re doing anything online these days, there are a lot of online channels to consider (websites, apps, social platforms, newsletters, …), the website still remains one of the central ingredients for doing anything online. I’m going to try to be as complete as possible with the least amount of questions. A Document Template Checklist.
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4 Project Management Anti-Patterns
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4 Project Management Anti-Patterns. 4 Project Management Anti-Patterns. Jan 23rd, 2012 by. Are – in a way – lessons in recognizing. What approaches to a given situation are ineffective or even counter productive. I look at them as the generic lessons-learned of life. That are worth noting down and foremost worth sharing. Last weekend I gave a presentation at Barcamp VRT 2012. I talked about 4 anti-patterns I discovered based on my notes. Aka Is That a Triangle in Your Pants? Please, check out the slides.
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