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COLLABORATIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Add project management to MS Outlook and put everything in one place.
In a market defined by familiar "three-letter" apps, Project-Open aims for success with a hybrid approach to enterprise project management -- and while it still faces a long, hard path, it's definitely off to a promising start.
Top IT shops have gone from being the No Police to the Frazzled Yes Guys. Project portfolio management can help stem the tide while keeping your hard-won reputation intact
This week's SmartAdvice column from The Advisory Council looks at best practices for determining your need for an MPLS-based network, and more on program-management offices.
Vendor adds new application portfolio management capabilities to its project management suite.
Besides technical know-how, workers must have solid communications skills, both verbal and written, to complete projects, CompTIA study shows.
If your data is suspect, you may have trouble managing your IT department like a business. But if you've accurately recorded each project's use of time and resources, IT portfolio-management products can help you focus your department and tie each investment to the company's goals.
Is Microsoft Office Project 2003 up to the challenge of my projects? I took it for a ride to find out.
Putting up a few links and images doesn't cut it anymore. To bring your site into the Web 2.0 world, you need to know about Ajax, Active X, RSS, and other key technologies.
Everyone loses when IT staffers refer to users as "lusers" and treat their customer base like the enemy, and when those same customers are often clueless about their role in project failures, and IT in general. Here's how to start reshaping attitudes and strengthen this critical relationship.
Beta 2 of Microsoft's upcoming Office suite is out. It's bigger and better, but still a bit strange.
IT executives pick entry-level workers based on tech skills, but they value business skills more highly.
Cooperation Helps Server VARs
The Tribune can't afford to miss a deadline, so its IT department proposed an impressive server-consolidation project that promises to cut costs and improve uptime.
The Tribune's IT shop got the story right: It's implementing initiatives that will meet needs and ensure the paper always gets published. Here are their keys to success.