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Check your EQ - Emotional Quotient... That would help determine if you can get along with folks with different temperaments & situations and how you handle the wins & loses on the job. You communication may be excellent, your IT skills may be unmatched, however inappropriate response & timing...

I have embarked on motivating the team on this. They do not have enough business knowledge and that does not help in value adds to the process. I have started developing their business knowledge, though the results of this exercise are yet to be known. Reading some quality gurus (Deming etc..)...

Hello all, I'm managing a 10 people project for a reputed stock exchange and most of the requests are for maintenance work. Documentation plays a big part that goes along with these requests. My developers though good technical folks run into quality issues with documentation. How do I redress...

To me the best skill would be a change in mindset. Most technical folks transitioning into PM role, stumble not due to lack of communication, leadership and other PM skills, but rather due to their inability to see things in a new/different light. Assuming you have the PM skills at reasonable...

Mayurkirti, I have worked on Application BCP (Disaster Recovery) for a reputed Wall Street financial institution for the last 3 years, this being my 4th year. 1. Typically we start with creating BCP runbook detailing the applications involved. 2. This includes providing business process flows...

I agree with clivehenderson,prjman & LNBruno on this. The constraints here are too involved and impede quality. First of all the users need this as soon as they demand this - the risk to business is always high if this is NOT done on time. Secondly we cater to multiple user teams each catering...

I manage a s/w engagement project for a reputed client in the financial services industry. My team mostly consists of members from my consulting company. The productivity and quality definitions and perceptions vary greatly between my client and parent company. As far as processes and project...

I manage a similar offshore team sitting here in U.S. In addition I interact with different client groups, vendors based in U.K., Canada, India, Phillipines and different locations within U.S. My learnings from the last 3 years 1. Set the right expectations with the client. In most cases the...

Since all of you are spread across the globe, chances of you having seen each other (or being face-to-face) are real slim. Some ideas 1. Collect pictures from each individual and create a small album (or flyer or a fancy card with a short story and their pictures) and send it to them. 2. The...

The BEST WAY TO STOP THIS GUY is to Build your case a. by preparing metrics about failures with freewares. b. You (as in IT) perform risk analysis of the freeware. (this would include some of the ones mentioned above by Buitenhek & johnherman). c. Collect industrywide benchmarks to justify your...

1. Find out the client expectations behind the new projects you're seeking in your org. 2.Prepare a list of - what you did - what you seek Balance your expectations(and resume) between all of the above for a winning combination and then approach your mgmt. Have a tentative transition plan for...

Trigeek1234, I faced a similar situation as yours a year and half back -I was techie guy with QA skills, Oracle 9i OCP cert etc. But now I'm firmly entrenched in this PM role. In hindsight I can propose you find yourself a mentor. In my case one of our client partners mentored me and continues...

I would assume changes to the project's triad of quality, cost, time. Every other change is immaterial as long as it does NOT affect the project. Lessons - Those are purely personal & subjective. As a start you can identify the failures, pitfalls, delays, conflicts encountered during and with...

Now that was insightful from PDQBach. Ours is a fixed bid project, so Costing is not required. However I do keep some docs as mentioned but not the Risk list (Risk list eluded me). Will include it. Ours is something like a cross between projects and operations. We have fixed time frame...

We are working for a financial institution and the business area/function/prod we are supporting is out of market these days. (it was a hot product initially). There's still a sizeable market for it so its been retained as a "Strategic advantage". So we are at the bottom of the "food chain"...

Hello all, Our company has secured a Maintenance contract for the client applications (around 10) across different technologies, platforms. I have been asked to manage it. The architecture is complex. In addition we are also busy with the daily support receiving calls from our users/clients...

Hello all, We are supporting a PB application which is built using the 3rd party framework ObjectStart (from GreeBriar Russell Consulting). The co. no longer supports the framework and our apps are tightly coupled to the framework. We plan to add some functionality to the app and my question is...

I'm one step behind Clzeus10, pondering if it is really beneficial to be a certified PMP. I understand it has its value in industry but still some questions persist Since there are multiple project management methodologies, is PMBOK methodology the best amongst these? Doesn't it...

Basically we are close to finishing this project and I am positive we will close this soon. There were a couple of troublesome bugs which occurred only once in the old version app. Basically it was faulty code/design but the robustness or the architecture of the s/w overcame these. Now these...

Is there a way of sending pages from PB 10?? - A0C61ZZ