From the monthly archives:

August 2009

7 Marks of a Great Project Management Office

by Alec Satin

Bad project management offices (PMO)s are easy to describe. You may have had to work with one at some point. Notice the words, had to work with one. People will do anything possible to minimize their interactions with a bad PMO. Poor PMOs don’t care. They have little contact with the people in the organization actually doing the work. Their focus is on compliance by force. Communication flows one way – from them to you.

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Mentoring how to: Mentor and be mentored!

by Alec Satin

This month I had my first meeting with a new mentor. We met after work at the Radiance tea house in Manhattan. The location was convenient. The atmosphere was soothing, quiet and conducive to the kind of focused and relaxed conversation which marks good mentoring. I left feeling hopeful, inspired and ready to act.

Have you ever thought of working with a mentor? Here are some guidelines.

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IT Job Search with twitter, linkedin, facebook

by Alec Satin

If you’re looking for work right now, you’re not alone. While Todd Thibodeaux, president of the Computing Technology Industry Association claims that there are 300,000
well paying IT jobs available now, LinkedIn groups and online forums are filled with posts from highly skilled project managers, technical leads and database administrators who are struggling to find work. Can both sides of the debate be right? The truth is that the technology job market is broken and desperately in need of repair. You can choose to:

(a) Complain about it
(b) Work to fix it
(c) Roll up our sleeves and do whatever is necessary to find appropriate work for yourself

This post is about option (c). Let’s get to work.

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Dealing with Stress at Work – Solutions Linkfest

by Alec Satin

Too busy to even read this post? If you take just 10 minutes right now ((Take a look now – we both know the likelihood is you won’t get a chance to come back to this post.)) to review these links, you may find an idea or two that could really help.

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PM Twitter Tweets – Revisited

by Alec Satin

Based on your positive feedback from the March project management and career twitter tweets post, here are some management, leadership and inspirational tweets you might enjoy.

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