Tasks you fear to outsource but should try April 29, 2009, 02:26 PM — InfoWorld — In a sliding market, outsourcing looks increasingly attractive. In this era of drastic cost cutting and budget squeezing, many IT managers facing diminished budgets and frozen in-house resources are exploring ways of sending even more work off site to save money, or at least take capital costs of their immediate plate. But with traditional outsourcing opportunities all but played out, many enterprises are asking, “Is there anything left to outsource?” Read the full article here
As with any new piece of software or online tool, I highly recommend taking the tour that is usually offered through the online option or reading the user guide that comes with the software. Yeah right! I never do that…I jump right in and use the software and that is what I did initially with ProjectOffice.net …finding it pretty easy to get up and running. However, for the purposes of us learning together – because I have A LOT to learn about ProjectOffice.net, I’m going to go back and start with the tour that is offered…and I highly recommend that any new users do the same.
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CA recently published results of their survey on the value of the Project Management Office. The study contained some very interesting results.
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EskoArtworks' ArtiosCAD 7.4 Offers Easier Design and Project … Printing News (press release),
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Who We Depend On Our management staff is our support structure, right? That’s how it’s supposed to be.
A heretical view of knowledge management For a long time, I have felt that there are multiple, significant problems in how the information technology industry has branded and sold knowledge management. First, given that we barely know how to reliably produce information, I felt it was arrogant to assume we knew how to reliably produce knowledge
Doing things better and in less time seems to be a standard requirement of most clients in long term maintenance engagements. The thought process here is – you’ve spent the past year figuring out what we do and how we do it so now you need to to it little bit better – and this story continue year in and year out
In this last article of the series, I’ll cover a potpourri of other estimating topics including the key outcome of estimating, converting effort estimates into budgets, dealing with poorly defined work, and what to do when management thinks it should cost less or take less time.
