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7 Marks of a Great Project Management Office

by Alec Satin
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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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IT Job Search with twitter, linkedin, facebook

by Alec Satin
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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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Need work? How to find your next IT Job with Social Media

by Alec Satin
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Are you out of work now?  Working but concerned about the security of your job?  If so, you’re not alone. Social Media Networking has been the key to my current job search.  I believe it can help you, too. You may be thinking: I have no time to learn one more thing. I’m already on LinkedIn I can always use Dice, Monster or CareerBuilder. Recruiters want my skills. I’ve never had trouble finding a job before. Times have changed. I’ve written up the very minimum you need do to position yourself well using social media.  It appears today as a [...]

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Free Project Management Tool – The Promise Keeper

by Alec Satin
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Jump to free downloads Does PMP certification make a better project manager? When Raven Young asked this question, opinions varied. Does Microsoft Project, the de facto project management software standard, improve IT project performance? I challenge anyone to show me proof of a strong correlation between how good you are as a project manager, and the cost of the tools that you use. Some of the best project managers use the simplest tools. Many of us who are efficiency software and tool junkies have come full circle and selectively reincorporated paper-based task systems into our personal workflows. As part of [...]

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Learning Mind Mapping Linkfest

by Alec Satin
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Mindmapping is a technique that can be helpful to you as a project manager or IT professional.  Mindmaps are most valuable in notetaking, brainstorming by yourself or with a team, and in preparing well organized documents and presentations.  If you like making lists or outlines, you may not immediately see the benefit to mindmaps.   This post may provide you with some ideas on how and why you might want to create some mindmaps for yourself. Try out Mindmapping The best way to see the value of mindmapping is to try it out in the next 3 or 4 meetings you [...]

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