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CXO

Is your project a real project?

Projects are a powerful tool for selecting work, motivating staff, aligning technology with business, and building client relationships. Paul Glen lists five important features of projects that distinguish them from other forms of work organization.

CXO

First-time project managers need failures

One of the greatest impediments to a first-time project manager's success is their need to succeed. Paul Glen says there are three things they really need -- and early success isn't one of them.

Innovation

Monitor project progress by using micro-deliverables

Micro-deliverables allow you to effectively gauge the health of a project. Paul Glen offers four simple rules to follow when planning for and using micro-deliverables.

Tech & Work

Job satisfaction: It’s highly overrated

Once faced with a dissatisfied IT workforce, what should you do? Hide in your office? Fire the most disgruntled people? Pretend it isn't happening. Before making any decisions, let's ask an important question: How important is job satisfaction anyway?

Innovation

Project managers: Stop “gathering” IT requirements

Paul Glen often hears that the failure to gather good requirements is the main cause of project failures. He says that, instead of gathering requirements, project managers must negotiate requirements among the stakeholders.

PURPOSE Finding a back-end developer with programming and technical expertise as well as superior collaboration and communication skills will require a comprehensive recruitment strategy. This Hiring Kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find, recruit and ultimately hire the right person for the job. From the hiring kit: TYPICAL ...

PURPOSE Application engineers need to have technical expertise in programming, design, business and the software and hardware required to run the application. This Hiring Kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find, recruit and ultimately hire the right person for the job. From the hiring kit: DETERMINING FACTORS, DESIRABLE ...

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Is your project a real project?

First-time project managers need failures

Monitor project progress by using micro-deliverables

Job satisfaction: It’s highly overrated

Project managers: Stop “gathering” IT requirements

Hiring kit: Back-end developer

Hiring kit: Application engineer

Employee performance review policy

Employee time off policy