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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® 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Competencies:  Applying Emotional Intelligence There was a time when intelligence quotient (IQ) was considered the leading determinant of success. In Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman argues that our IQ-idolizing view of intelligence is far too narrow. Instead, Goleman makes the case for Emotional Intelligence (EI)—a subcategory of social intelligence—as […]