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PM Bookshelf – Dictionary of Project Management Terms Third Edition by Ward

by Alec Satin

You may be wondering why anyone would plunk down $54 to purchase a dictionary of project management terms. After all, you can google terms or use the online PM dictionaries available at PMHut, Project Auditors, or Visitask. Your time is valuable! There are too many books out there. PM Bookshelf posts present you with a core of books that are worth your time to buy and read. I wondered too when Christine Hohlbaum contacted me on behalf of ESI International and offered to send me a review copy of J. LeRoy Ward’s new third edition of the Dictionary of Project [...]

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PMI: Project Management Articles Published Online Can Be Submitted for PDUs

by Alec Satin

Barbara Mauro and a few others have had questions about getting PDUs for articles and other documents published online. These questions have shown up on LinkedIn Project Management discussion groups and the #pmot (project managers on twitter) group. This morning I spoke with a PMI representative, who confirmed that project management articles published online can be submitted for PMP Professional Development Units (PDUs). The same applies to templates and white papers. If you happened to be audited, you would need to be able to verify where and when the item was published. The guidelines talk about “scholarly articles”. It’s up [...]

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10 Keys to Being a Wildly Successful Project Manager

by Alec Satin

What do you think are the most important skills or qualities needed in a really good project manager?

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PM Twitter Tweets?

by Alec Satin

Here are selected project management and career twitter tweets from the last few weeks.

How can you use these?

Look for project managers to follow @ravenyoung @sreejith_gce
Scan the topics (Project Management Tools, Efficiency and Productivity, etc.) for subjects of interest to you
Read some or all of the twitter tweets!

Take a look – you might find something that could help you on your project, with your career, or in your life. Have a great week. -Alec

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Redoubled Customer Focus and Project Management

by Alec Satin

Over the past few weeks I’ve been wowed by business people who have really got customer focus right. As project managers, we can learn a lot from their example. When was the last time you: Identified cost or time saving options for your customer? Anticipated your stakeholders‘ needs? Went out of the way to make all stages of their project easier for them? Being a customer focused project manager means that you make a regular practice of putting yourself in your customer’s place. You make it a point to determine what would make them successful, happy or even less irritated. [...]

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