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        <description><![CDATA[Here's a comprehensive checklist IT project managers and consultants can review to help minimize project management feature and scope creep. Whether working with internal or external audiences,...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Plenty of things can derail a project plan: underestimated tasks, departing staff, misallocated resources. Here are some practical techniques that can correct the direction of a project that's...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Classifying your projects will help you ensure that they're aligned with your company's business goals. Jay Rollins classifies projects as infrastructure, transactional, informational, or...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Successfully managing a project portfolio entails getting approval on projects that match strategic objectives, prioritizing approved projects, fostering a sense of ownership among those...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Before your stakeholders can prioritize a list of projects, it's critical to pull together the key information they can use for decision-making. This template will give you the framework for...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Stay on top of your project portfolio with the help of this sample project management tool from seasoned IT leader Jay Rollins. For more information on classifying projects to make sure they...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Updated with all new content!Our IT Hiring Kit for Project Managers will help you interview, evaluate, and select suitable candidates for a project manager position. This kit comes with a...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Conducting a good interview to gather project requirements can be a daunting task -- particularly if you are interviewing a stakeholder who holds a high position in the organization, or has a...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[As a project manager or business analyst, you have an important role outside the scope of customer projects. Your work outside the context of projects helps to identify and resolve issues and...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Whether the clients you serve are inside or outside your organization, creating and sustaining customer focus is crucial to your success as an IT department. As a project manager or business...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[An analysis team writes detailed use cases to describe the steps and characteristics of business processes. While use cases are often a central feature of a software requirements specification,...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Many business analysts use Unified Modeling Language use case diagrams to identify the actors and their high-level actions in a system. These diagrams help an analysis team clarify and understand...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Although most projects start enthusiastically, optimism fades quickly unless an analysis and design team gets traction and learns where it is going. Working from a project charter, the team's next...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[You've all seen top 10 lists of the best traits of a project manager or the top 10 skills of a project manager. However, project management is not for everyone. Many people have some of the traits...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[The key to understanding a project is to make regular measurements, both quantitative and qualitative, then to display the measurements publicly. When project managers display these measurements...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Attempting to create a complex Web site without proper planning would be like taking a trip from New York to California without the benefit of road maps. You may know you need to travel in a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does moral intelligence lead to business success?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is a powerful correlation between strong moral principles and business success, or so the authors of Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success would have us...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[A pragmatic project manager knows that there are many possible &quot;right&quot; ways to schedule a project, and that an initial project plan will always evolve as the project gets underway. As a pragmatic...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Having performed a project at some time during your career doesn't automatically make you a project manager. Yet an understanding of project management is essential in most fields, including IT,...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Microsoft Office Project is a very powerful project scheduling tool that enables you to easily review and track the effort, dates, and dependencies of your project activities, but it can also seem...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;Feature complete&quot; is not the same as &quot;production ready.&quot; Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship or your Web site ready to launch is only half the...]]></description>
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