IT Project Management

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7 free online collaboration and project management tools

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IT spending reality check: 2014's mixed message

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Need to know? Yeah, actually, we do

This company that supplies colleges with mainframe ERP software sends a pilot fish to deal with the process. But it turns out there's something the school's IT people haven't mentioned.

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When others suffer for your mistakes

What we geeks need to realize is that delivering a fix is insufficient.

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Career advice: Young and willing to move for a good job

Premier 100 IT Leader Fernando Gonzalez also answers questions on updating the job hunt and moving into project management.

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Asset managers crave location data

Visually seeing and tracking your company's assets can help save money, time and trouble.

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5 tips for keeping IT projects on track

What really works to keep IT projects from going off the rails.

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Technology jeopardy: Beat the odds of project failure with a single question

The important question, which is rarely thought of, is ‘What do people need to do their best work?’

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Paul Glen: You can't wear the manager and developer hats at the same time

The two roles demand entirely different mindsets and work styles.

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Goals are great, except when they’re not

You want your team to strive toward a common goal. Just make sure you’ve set a goal that makes sense for accomplishing what really matters.

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Patching the patch for the patch for the patch...

This pilot fish gets responsibility for a 600-user IP phone system -- and it's a mess. "My predecessor didn't know how to differentiate incoming calls from outgoing calls based upon where they came from," says fish. "So he had the...

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Oregon's move from Oracle-developed site to Healthcare.gov on track

Oregon's effort to transition its health insurance exchange from a problem-wracked website originally developed by Oracle to the federal Healthcare.gov platform is going according to schedule and expectations, state officials said...

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No good deed goes unpunish-- Oh wait, never mind!

It's shortly after Y2k, and this pilot fish is part of a small IT group at a big multinational company. "The data center I supported was in the top floor of a multistory building near the airport," says fish. "I was put on a team...

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Lunch -- the hard way

This systems analyst pilot fish is trying to keep things working at a manufacturing plant in the southern U.S. -- and management isn't making it easy. "I was told to keep the homegrown manufacturing system running as long as...

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Wolfram fortifies SystemModeler with more libraries

Hydraulic actuators, battery stacks, biochemical systems and disease propagation are but a few things that now can be modeled more easily, thanks to a number of libraries and a library store that Wolfram Research has created for a new...

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How'd you get the vendor guy to go along with it?

The financial institution where this pilot fish works is moving to a new disaster recovery site -- and that means arranging the transfer of several financial-market data servers. "They were all owned by the data vendor, but served...

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We're 'not big enough'? Let's try that again.

Pilot fish is dispatched to his company's Seattle office to figure out what's wrong with a critical new semi-experimental system -- and then get it fixed, budget be damned. "I arrive in Seattle, talk to all parties and run some...

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Not the ticket-handling efficiency we had in mind

This group of climate modelers wants to work with a government weather model -- and that requires acquiring both the model and the recommended hardware to run it on, reports an IT pilot fish on the scene. "Acquiring the government...

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Career Watch: Getting the bottom line into your resume

How can you use your resume to give prospective employers insight into how you helped your past employers?

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How to make the most of an IT buyer's market

New technology trends are driving big changes in the vendor landscape and creating a once-in-a-career opportunity for savvy CIOs. Huge price cuts, packaged deals, favorable contracts and unique partnerships with big-time vendors are...

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