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Leading Online - The Future of Virtual Leadership Development

Leading virtual teams requires a unique set of competencies to master in addition to the traditional project management ... Leading in a cross-cultural environment Building and maintaining trust The critical question is how ... leader’s role is to coach new members on strategy, tactics and team agreements while providing [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 23:12:28

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Agile is NOT a Project Management Methodology

A range of IT commentators are confusing a product development methodology with project management ... . This is no different to the need to plan and execute a building project differently if all of the walls ... in a collaborative environment and the overall team’s focus [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 07:56:44

Management Consulting vs Investment Banking: 5 Differences Part 2

by Management Consulted #3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT I’m biased here, but I received a thorough and intense business training in my time at McKinsey . I learned textbook business principles and practices. In addition, the project team model leads ... . Soft skills: 1) Client handling (explained above) 2) Heavy team interaction 3) [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 14:31:14

The Social Developer

Blogger and CTO, Jon Williams, wrote a nice post explaining why some developers relish the opportunity to manage; they want to be social ... , with the dependence on verbal communication rather than arduous specification, can scratch the social itch. While my team is not always using strict Agile methodology, we do have frequent “scrum [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 14:42:03

Development Manager/Project Manager - Sandton

Purpose: Plan, direct and coordinate a number of projects at any given time to ensure that goals and objectives of the Business Unit are met on time and within budget. Responsible for a team of about 5 people. Plan ... activities ensuring communication with project participants and peripheral stakeholders through [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 06:20:16

DrupalCon DC

As frequent readers of our blog know, The Bivings Group specializes in building websites using the content management platform Drupal ... building the International Journalists Network, an ambitious website that runs concurrently in five languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi and Arabic). The core development team that built [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 16:16:04

Dante's Inferno Details Leaked Through Developer's Resume

Ever since a few days ago, when movie studios began vying for the film rights to EA’s new game, Dante’s Inferno, ... , X360, PC) Creator and executive producer of an original action/adventure trilogy currently in production. Building and managing a large internal team from ground up, with contractors [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 14:21:56

Software Development Lifecycle - which one do you choose, and why?

Having spend most of this afternoon racking my brains for some sort of holy grail of software development lifecycle that will ensure success in every ... to happen in a Software Development Lifecycle… My favourite quote from it is: "The standard ... me anything that I didn’t already know… As a software team leader or software project manager it is down [more...]

Date: 2009-02-18 20:46:13

Using IT Consulting Services

#fullpost{display:inline;}In the past decade, new technologies and Internet have developed so much that building an effective information technology ... of performance, among others.Sometimes one expert can manage a technical project but most times a team ... o hire an entire team of experts because it´s costly and impractical. Regardless the size of [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 04:09:00

Squarefeet Management ropes in Nathani

/India PRwire/ - Squarefeet Management private limited (SMPL), a “Mall Concept Advisory firm” floated by Susil DUNGARWAL ropes in Mr. B.D ... , Brand Building &amp; Business Promotion. Having been the key person behind the successful launches ... . I am sure that we as a team will deliver the Mall developers in North, the much sought after solutions [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 09:57:40

Collaboration Is A Leadership Development Skill

by Bart Icles Today, businesses all over the world are getting smarter and more skilled employees ... when it comes to an organizations development of leadership. You probably already know for yourself ... or manager can create an atmosphere where members of a collaborative team value and listen to each other’ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 11:49:44

Senior Software Project Manager

Via One (http://www.viaone.com) is a privately-held global prepaid transaction processing and enhanced mobile services company We are opening a ... project management, problem solving and analytical skills; rigorous, data-driven decision-making ... process improvement. Develop and determine project approach, effort, schedule, team member roles [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 12:48:44

Collaboration: An Important Leadership Development Skill

Date: 2009-02-13 09:16:20

Lisa Joins MPI - I'm a solopreneur no more! The draw and power of "Super Teams"

If you are a regular reader, you may have noticed a few recent changes on this blog, my personal website, and my LinkedIn and Facebook profiles (and now my Twitter page! ). For the past six years, I have been doing OD, training, and HR ... (which includes management and leadership development) operations. MPI is a 30 year old boutique [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 01:49:57

May-6-09: Collaborative Roadmapping at SVPMA

Enthiosys CEO Luke Hohmann will be the guest speaker for May’s meeting of the SVPMA (Silicon Valley Product Management Association) ... -members Living between the timeframe of corporate strategy and the current release, a good ... several in-person and online collaborative games that Enthiosys have developed to help product teams [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 12:33:49

Help Boxee Build Its Pitch To Content Owners

I blogged last week my thoughts on why Hulu and other content owners should want to work with, not against, our portfolio company Boxee. Boxee's management team has been working hard on its pitch to content owners and took the extra step this weekend of creating a wiki so that the entire Boxee community of users and developers [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 17:49:54

Lab Management in VSTS 2010

One of the components of Visual Studio Team System 2010 is Lab Management ... and for everybody else out in the world doing software development. As part of building VSTS 2010 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 19:42:13

Structural Steel Detailing Development

Structural Steel Detailing, CAD Outsourcing Services from Outsourcing Steel Detailing includes: ... and thereby optimise the business case.· Manage so that all engineering and development activities result ... business objectives.· To proactively participate as a member of a multi-disciplinary design team providing [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 05:05:00

Are You Networking Online? Try Connecting with 36 Million Pros on Linkedin!

Networking in person is a good way to stay in touch with business developments on a local level ... Linkedin.com has over 36 million users world-wide. Join Linkedin and start building you virtual business team and start generating leads. Manage the information that’s publicly available [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 12:00:53

An appeal to the warring Malaysian Politicians

Technorati tags: Economy , Politics , Truce , BN , PKR And, if Walski may add, a very urgent one , too ... me explain. I am in the business of Training, Development and Consultancy and have 20 people in my team ... on providing consultancy services and training programs covering areas such as change management [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 11:37:00

Intel: How Corporate Takes On Social Media Strategy

The secret to building online communities, says Ken Kaplan, Social Media Manager at Intel, is to involve others and to give them ownership ... to YouTube, Intel has an employee-wide blog program and the social media team works constantly to develop [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 18:57:28

Not Sure Where to Start with Workforce Planning?

Workforce Management’s weekly e-newsletter contained a question and answer regarding getting started with workforce planning. (See article here.) This is a common scenario – the executive team issues a mandate to start workforce planning ... be developed that fits within your organization’s business planning cycle and takes corporate [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 18:54:51

Great Experience with Centex Homes

Saying thank you for a job well done is a good thing to do, especially in times when things are not as easy as they used to be ... team at Centex was great… the sales reps at other developments we met when we were looking at floor plans, the staff at the design studio, the construction manager, and the mortgage rep at CTX Mortgage [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 04:16:03

Training and Mentoring

District sales managers for XYZ Company are responsible for training and mentoring new sales staff, as well as continually developing existing staff ... regularly working with each member of the sales team in field situations, providing one-to-one coaching and skill-building activities.Behavioral question: “Describe a time when you hired a new [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 05:01:39

Dutch government consolidating websites on Hippo CMS 7

The Dutch government has announced the new website www.rijksoverheid.nl, and has chosen Hippo CMS 7 to manage the web content ... ). It is estimated to cost €6 milion, of which €250,000 in software (presumably in support and development ... is an animal that lives in denial . However, the director of the project team told me that the selection [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 19:18:00

Getting a job in development (MSF edition)

Continuing the theme of development job advice , I hassle two American friends at Médecins Sans Frontières ... -president of the debate team wasn't going to cut it. She wanted to help me. Maybe I had managed [more...]

Date: 2009-02-21 16:32:00

The 10 biggest mistakes IT managers make

Certain common IT management mistakes can make you less effective, hamper your career advancement, and even jeopardize your job ... or development. Based on their technical roots, they tend to focus their efforts in their expertise ... that your team has it covered In the TV show The Apprentice , so many teams ended up in the boardroom [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 21:13:12

Several positions - security and maritime consultancy, training, crisis management...

Personnel with the following skill-sets are currently wanted for both full-time and short-term work: ... are available upon application. ConsultancyOrganisational Development and Training Consultant Applicants are required to fill a key role within our defence transformation team. The successful applicant [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 18:31:34

Project Management Professional Skills Training

Author : Wolfgang Jaegel Projects are an impermanent endeavour that is carried out to develop a unique product or service For the successful ... of the people involved in the projects and new recruits Since the project team consists of select group [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 18:05:12

Doubletree by Hilton signs first hotel development deal in India

/India PRwire/ - Hilton Hotels Corporation today announced that it has signed a long-term management agreement with JMD Ltd ... in some of the most desired business and leisure destinations worldwide, our entire brand team looks forward to expanding our brand to India by building a collection of fine hotels that share the same core [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 11:17:44