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Software Project Management Primer

Sooner or later, someone steps into your office and says, “You’re a project manager.” It’s that quick, it’s that unannounced. It’s as though it’s expected that, just by hearing those words, you’ll magically know what you’re supposed to do, how you’re supposed to do it, and when things are supposed to get done. If you’re very lucky, you’ll increase your salary. If you’re like most, you won’t.

Project Turn Around – Operation Rollout

Topic Project Methodologies & Process

No IT project ever follows a methodology to a tee. If they did, the success rate of projects would be far higher than the abominable success rates we constantly read and hear about or even worse, personally experience. Here is an example of an actual project with many typical challenges found in most projects and how they were addressed to achieve success beyond expectations. It can help provide ideas and tips on how to address real-life sticky situations, move forward without starting over and motivate a diverse group of people from both business and technical departments to turn around a project and deliver on time and under budget.

How to Optimize for the Open Directory Project

As the Internet and search technologies mature, one thing remains clear – Internet search is most effective when the user is presented with a hybrid of results from a spider-based search engine and a human-edited directory. My conversation with Chris Tolles of the Open Directory Project shows that he firmly understands the importance of having both crawler-based search services and human-edited directories. The bottom line is that search engine marketing does not work if one or the other is ignored; therefore, it is important to focus search-positioning campaigns on both. The blend in fact benefits the user and the search engine marketer.

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