Project Leadership Success: Responsibilities, Competencies and Behaviors That Produce Positive Results – Part 7 of 10
Mar 30,
2010
Behaviors: Introduction “The person who knows ‘how’ will always have a job. The person who knows ‘why’ will always be their boss.” Diane Ravitch (author and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education) In the first three blogs in the Project Leadership Success series, I focused on the Responsibilities of a successful project leader. They are: […]
Motivational Series – Part 4: Motivation and Measures
Mar 28,
2010
Motivation and Measures “People do what you count, but not what counts.” What this means is that people will respond to measures in unexpected ways. Once you put a measure in place, staff will gear their behavior to that measure. In some cases, this will result in completely unexpected outcomes that somehow fulfill your measures, […]
The BABOK® Requirements Taxonomy
Mar 27,
2010
The BABOK® defines a specific taxonomy, or classification scheme, for project requirements. The levels of requirements in the BABOK® need to be mapped to your existing requirements taxonomy and any associated requirements documents. To start off, remember that the standard defines a requirement as a condition or capability needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem or […]
SQL Azure
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2010
The final storage option we will discuss is SQL Azure. As the name suggests, SQL Azure is a fully functional relational database in the cloud. It is part of the Windows Azure Platform. By design, SQL Azure will seem very familiar to anyone who has used SQL Server. There are, however, some important differences between […]
Testing and Tracking Alpha Issues
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2010
Issues This week has been incredibly busy as we carried out the Alpha test of our SharePoint 2010 Introduction course If you are testing and giving feedback about a project, one list you may want to look at is the issues list This allows you to report issues, assign them and track them. Many people […]
