A New Development Environment You Need to Know About...
Situation: You're an IT PM on the Leading Edge of Tech... Microsoft's new Silverlight technology is making quite a splash in the developer community. It can be used as:- a great way to deliver video - a higher end replacement for Flash as a development environment (see examples) - a way to make your existing code, like Javascript, run much faster (by just dropping it in) Take a look at the TechCrunch review for more details. |
Posted on: May 03, 2007 09:05 AM
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A Cartoon Lesson in PM...
| Situation: A Project Manager in Your PMO Could Be a Little More Collaborative... This little snippet could help you hint at a problem without being too confrontational. |
Posted on: April 29, 2007 11:07 AM
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Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration...
Situation: You Want Something Between a CMS and Home Grown Web 2.0 Tools... ClearSpace is an interesting software package that I ran across at the Web 2.0 Expo a week ago. Most of these tools don't even consider the tools you already have in place. Things as basic as email are off in a separate silo. ClearSpace integrates email and seems to offer a great core set of document management capabilities (without getting too complicated). Even better, it offers view of team-based interaction and enterprise knowledge that is topic focused, versus file or folder focused.I the same way that Google Desktop frees you up from the administrative tasks of constantly organizing things, Clearspace had the potential to make team and enterprise knowledge accessible without a librarian. Here are some features that might feel useful to you: - Integrating a lot of project-specific interaction that is only available in email threads with the rest of the project's documentation. This way you don't have to search around as much when you're trying to remember what happened a month ago. - Blogging with RSS capabilities to provide constant (and time-stamped) status reporting. - Version control of Word and Excel documents. - User profiles that could be very useful in the context of a PMO. - Automated reporting of team participation. |
Posted on: April 29, 2007 10:57 AM
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Need Company on Your Trip?
Situation: You'd Rather Be Networking While Others Are Relaxing... In this months Business 2.0, there's a fun little article called The (less) Lonely Life of the Road Warrior (this link is just to the summary, no direct link yet) that covers some opportunities to network when you are on the road. This isnt for everyone, but for those of us who love meeting someone new, here you go...- Pairup lets you know if any of your colleagues (people who sign up based on your outloook contacts) happen to be going to the same town or trade show at the same time that you are. - Airtroductions matches you up with a business traveler who might be a good networking contact. - The Flying Blue Golf Club sets you up on a golf date with a potential business contact. I guess if you're the kind of person who is going to play golf alone anyway... - Dinnerpoint arranges dinners for groups of 4-8 people and lets you rate them afterward. Seems like a good opportunity to experience the painful side of dating even after you're married. |
Posted on: April 29, 2007 10:39 AM
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For the Ultimate Road Warrior...
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| Situation: You Travel So Much You Don't Have Time For Anything Else. |
Posted on: April 29, 2007 10:26 AM
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