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Why Your Project Needs a Testing Phase

Why Your Project Needs a Testing Phase

This week, I downloaded a new app for my iPad. It looked great, but I should have taken more notice of the online reviews. Several users had reported that the application crashed often, and sure enough, it does. That’s because it hasn’t been tested properly. I’m sure that you have had a similar experience...

How to Prevent the Negative Impacts of Poor Requirements

How to Prevent the Negative Impacts of Poor Requirements

Written by  Sergey Korban There is an abundance of stories of failed projects. Research has shown the reasons for IT project failure in the USA, indicated that project success rates were only 34%, with the rest of projects being either “challenged” in some way or failing outright. The losses can be very significant. For example,...

Worst Day Ever

Worst Day Ever

What’s the worst thing that can happen to you as a project manager? I’m sure my worst day ever ranks up there in the top five. It wasn’t funny at the time, but I can laugh about it now and appreciate the lessons I learned. Learn from my experience with what to do after...

When Passion Drives the Program

When Passion Drives the Program

By Roger Chou, PgMP Mayday is a Taiwanese rock band with a massive worldwide following. In fact, two concerts promoting their 2012 album, Noah’s Ark, were held in the world’s largest sports venue, Beijing’s National Stadium. Those two performances alone drew 200,000 fans — an astonishing feat for any band, anywhere in the world. Believe...

10 Steps to Success When You Are Hired as a BA for a Company That Has Never Had a BA Before

Written by  Wendy Nelson I took a new position a year ago to become a Project Manager/Business Analyst (BA) in the IT department of a company that had never had these roles before. So far, it has been a challenging and often frustrating road. I am just getting to the point where I have gained...

The Attitudes Behind Project Success and Failure

By Ammar W. Mango The impatient stakeholders are in a hurry to see results fast. Sometimes they read normal change resistance the wrong way and assume the project failed. Then their actions really make it fail. It is important to understand that such stakeholders exist and it is better to learn to proactively manage...

How to Successfully Implement the Principle of Least Privilege

How to Successfully Implement the Principle of Least Privilege

By Dominic Vogel Takeaway: Least privilege is a core security principle, but it’s one that often meets with resistance by users. Here are tips for how to implement it and get the point across to others. The bane of many information security pros’ existence is the never-ending quest of attempting to enforce the principle of least...

What to Expect from a Project Sponsor

What to Expect from a Project Sponsor

One of the first things that you will be keen to find out on any new project is who the project sponsor will be. It makes a huge difference. A ‘good’ sponsor will help you steer the project to success. A ‘bad’ sponsor won’t turn up to meetings, won’t make decisions and will generally...

3 Ways to Mitigate Misunderstandings on Projects

3 Ways to Mitigate Misunderstandings on Projects

How do misunderstandings arise? You may have just said something to one of your team members, and the next time you hear it a week later, its meaning has completely changed! The following is a story of how it happens in corporate life and what you can do to minimize information from being blown...

Women Have a Sixth Sense, Men Are Oblivious

Written by  Kupe Kupersmith I am a man, so I am completely qualified to say that men are oblivious. This is first demonstrated at a young age. Men, think back to when you were playing in the school yard and girls were chasing you. You had no clue the girl or girls chasing you liked...



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