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Articles, White Papers and other
documents addressing basic concepts of Management. These will cover people
and project management topics.
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Documents covering basic management principles.
 | Skills based resource assignments - I attended the world wide
launch of Microsoft Project 2002. One of their new features was this skill
based assignment tool. I just wanted to point out some pitfalls for those of
you who might consider it.
Skills based resource assignments: Dream come true or Nightmare 784KB
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| Matrix Management - One of the visitors to this site asked for an
explanation of "Matrix Management"/Matrix Organizations". This was my
response, and I thought it might be interesting for others.
Matrix Management 162KB
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| PMO White Paper - This document represents a brief introduction as
to what to consider when implementing a Project Management Office (PMO). I
wrote a more specific version of this for a client, and felt this more generic
version might be useful to visitors to this web site.
PMO
White Paper 1,200KB
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| Project Scheduling Primer - Scheduling multiple projects and
sharing resources, how it works.
Project Scheduling Primer 208KB
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| Project Management Guidelines (A different kind of Methodology) -
This is a methodology I wrote with one of my clients. This methodology is
applicable for "any" project; and everything is a project. This
works whether you are building the Space Shuttle, planning a meeting,
planning a trip or handling a continuity issue (putting out a fire). The
point being that the phases in this, and actually any, methodology are steps
we go through for "any" project we do. In some instances it may
take 5 minutes to go through them all; in others 5 years. But go through
them all we will. This Methodology helps managers think about their projects
in a different way. It teaches managers to ask the right questions to get
the information they need. It is all about communication and dissemination
of information. There are 2 documents here. The first is the entire
Methodology; the second is a Quick Reference Card for that methodology.
Project
Management Guidelines 206KB
Project
Management Guidelines Quick Reference 74KB |
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