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September 2008

Top Project Management Postings: September 2008

Currently I am tracking 103 blogs related to “Project Management”. Last month I found the following postings highly remarkable and interesting…
Is it Time to Panic?

“As you look at your own firm and your own situation, it is not a time to take foolish risks. Frankly, it’s never a time to do that, so nothing [...]

23 Powerful Tips for Working in Multi-Cultural Teams

“Planning and implementing organizational systems and practices to manage people so that the potential advantages of diversity are maximized while its potential disadvantages are minimized” (Cultural Diversity in Organization by Taylor H. Cox)

Proud Postings: Crossderry by Paul Ritchie

In my series “Proud Postings” I ask several other bloggers in the Project Management arena “What are the 3 postings you are most proud of?” This time three great postings from Paul Ritchie. He writes fabulous Project Management stuff on his blog Crossderry.

Photography by Francois Schnell.
First about Paul and Crossderry…
“I lead global project management operations [...]

Dear Project Manager: Why Should Anyone Want To Work For You?

Why should people want to work on your project?
You know about globalization, you know this makes employees competing with people from all over the world. Have you considered The Other Consequence? That you have to compete with other GLOBAL companies and Project Managers to get good people to staff your projects?
If developers, testers and [...]

Marketing: Tech People Hate It. Boy Are They Going To Need It!

If your are into software project management, you are into marketing. If you are planning to keep on working on software projects in the years to come, you better get darn good at it.
It seems to be a dirty word among technical people: “marketing”. But it’s not about selling your soul to the devil. It’s [...]

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