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Archive for April, 2010

Dr. John A. Estrella’s Blog

Dr. John A. Estrella’s Blog premiered in March 2009 as a quick-hitting blog for the project management Twitter-verse, only if the characters were instead words.
“I give practical project management advice in 140 words or less,” he says. “Topics include low-level topics such as three-point estimating to high-level topics such as enterprise project management.”
John holds qualifications [...]

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The Green PM

The Green PM – Fresh Perspectives on Project Leadership is a weekly blog run by veteran project management professional Jhaymee Wilson dedicated to promoting and advancing the project management profession on a global scale. Jhaymee, a Project Manager for an IT firm based in Virginia, premiered the blog in February 2010 with a goal of [...]

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Parallel Project Training

Parallel Project Training is a blog/podcast listing site engineered by Paul Naybour featuring frequent updates of one of the leading project management podcasts on the web. In fact, search for podcasts related to projects and project management on iTunes, and you’ll be sure to find the two geese in flight around the Parallel Project Training [...]

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The Plan Is

The Plan Is by Richard Revis is the blog for a small London-based project management firm of the same name that specialises in recovering projects that have fallen apart. Richard, a veteran of defence and telecommunications projects before moving on to project management tools, believes sound project management can wipe out the fires caused by [...]

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Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice

Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice is a blog offered Kiron Bondale, a manager of multiple mid-to-large sized application development and systems integration projects. Kiron has set up and managed Project Management Offices (PMO) and, as Manager of Client Services for Solution Q, has provided project portfolio management and project management consulting services to clients [...]

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Perspectives on Project Management

Perspectives on Project Management is the blog from Learning Tree which started up in October 2009 to share accumulated knowledge & experience with the project management community.
Learning Tree International is a leading global provider of effective training to management, business and information technology professionals. Since the introduction of their first Project Management course in 1988, [...]

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Thanks to Managing the Work

Last week, the PPMcommunity.com featured in a blog post by Managing the Work. We’ll also be featured in a mini-interview with MTW too, so thanks to Monica to not only arranging this but also for taking part in the ppmcommunity too. See the Managing the Work profile on PPMCommunity.com
Lawrence and I started the website because [...]

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The Critical Chain

The Critical Chain by Dina Garfinkel is a blog from a veteran web developer of just over a decade that moved into project management in 2004.
“I learned over the next four years through trial by fire and learned a huge amount,” Dina says. “In January of 2008 I went for my PMP and getting it [...]

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Beyond The Firewall

Beyond The Firewall is a blog by Stew Apelzin, one that actively promotes a page of posts about “software development, healthcare, acting, racquetball”. Or, as the Oregon native says, the things that “tickle my fancy. Hopefully you’ll enjoy them too.”
A cursory glance at his first page of posts, though, reveals a wealth of posts featuring [...]

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The pm411.org Project Management Podcast

The pm411.org Project Management Podcast is hosted by Ron Holohan, a Chicago-based Director of Programmer Management in audio manufacturing that frequently features some of the top names in PPM for his bi-weekly podcast. Ron tries to use the pm411 as both a blog and podcast to provide his audience with up to date best practices [...]

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Management Scholars Academy Blog

Management Scholars Academy Blog (MS Academy Blog for short) is edited by Ganapathy Subramanian, a PMP-certified mentor and project veteran that uses the blog to publish 2-3 articles on both project management and interpersonal skills. Through communication techniques, MS Academy aims to reach both project leads and project managers.
“Management Scholars Academy blog is a place to [...]

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Herding Cats

Herding Cats by Glen Alleman intends to establish the processes needed to increase the probability of project success from my experience and domain knowledge. Through Glen – a Programme Planning and Controls manager in aerospace, defense, government, and enterprise IT domains – Herding Cats has been adding daily updates since March 2005 as an avenue [...]

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Strategic Project Management

Strategic Project Management by Ty Kiisel is a blog for @task, a worldwide project and portfolio solutions company. Ty has blogged daily at Strategic PM since its inception in the fall of 2009 with the goal of sharing best practices and experiences.
Ty describes Strategic PM as a collection of “observations and lessons learned from managing [...]

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