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Personality Plus: Choosing the Best Fit for Your Software Project Posted: 13-May-2010 full article | highlights | pdf Should your human resources department be choosing extroverts, introverts, thinkers or ‘judges' for your next software engineering project? Or maybe…

Delivering Business Value from IT Projects – Results from a Pilot Study Posted: 1-Mar-2010 full article | highlights | pdf In a competitive and depressed economic climate, executives want to know that any IT project they undertake will deliver a…

Study links good leaders to successful projects Posted: 3-Feb-2010 full article | highlights | pdf While good leadership must have something to do with successful projects, it's surprising how few studies have examined this correlation. A…

Sponsors Play a Vital Role in Projects Posted: 24-Sep-2009 full article | highlights | pdf Project sponsors don't get much applause-in research literature or on the job. Yet there is convincing evidence that a project's…

Building The PM-Centric Organization Posted: 20-Feb-2009 full article | highlights | pdf What can IT service firms and in-house IT organizations learn from the construction industry? "Continuous improvement of project management skills," says…

Managing Knowledge Risks Posted: 12-Jan-2009 full article | highlights | pdf Understanding and managing knowledge risks can be critically important for innovative IT-enabled business projects. These projects rely on the project…

Know Your Knowledge Risks Posted: 28-Nov-2008 full article | highlights | pdf When it comes to managing knowledge during an IT project, most project managers hide their heads in the sand. Knowledge…

IT Projects: Getting Beyond CHAOS Posted: 27-Oct-2008 full article | highlights | pdf Over-achieving IT projects? It sounds too good to be true. But new research by Dr. Andrew Gemino of Simon Fraser…

The Thought-Leader Mindset Posted: 17-Sep-2008 full article | highlights | pdf IT project management is rapidly evolving. Traditional concerns for cost, time and scope are now only one aspect of the…

Managing Great Expectations Posted: 26-Aug-2008 full article | highlights | pdf Did you ever ask for an outrageously expensive brand-name toy for your birthday - and then received a generic version…

New Roles for the Consultant Project Manager Posted: 28-Apr-2008 full article | highlights | pdf There's a new trend evolving in external project management and it isn't for the faint-of-heart. Increasingly, companies are relying on…

Measuring for Success in IT Projects Posted: 19-Mar-2008 full article | highlights | pdf There's a familiar French proverb that says, "Nothing succeeds like success." But it's difficult to get the benefit if success…

The New Project Leader Posted: 14-Feb-2008 full article | highlights | pdf There's a new mindset among IT business customers these days. Increasingly, they're banking on IT projects to yield investment returns.…

Planning for the Unexpected Posted: 14-Feb-2008 full article | highlights | pdf Projects are planned change. Volatility is unplanned change. Yet inevitably, as all project managers will attest, every project encounters some…

Applying Lessons Learned to a Project Posted: 13-Feb-2008 full article | highlights | pdf How often does your organization apply the lessons learned from past projects to new projects? If you say "rarely", you're…

Do Women Perform Better than Men? Posted: 12-Feb-2008 full article | highlights | pdf Psst! Have you heard those rumours claiming that women are the best project managers? It seems there may be…

Does Size Really Matter? Posted: 11-Feb-2008

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It's no secret that information technology (IT) projects, which are typically very large, have a high risk of failure. In…