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If you want to learn to THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX…you need to TRAVEL OUTSIDE THE BOX Jay Abraham is a marketing guru who is especially popular in small business and entrepreneurial circles. Jay has made many millions for his clients…and himself – by thinking OUTSIDE THE BOX.

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Whenever you need to introduce a new service, which typically is intended to take the form of a process, you need to create a project. This is much like building a bridge, setting up a new bank brankch, or implementing an IT project. There is an idea for a project end state, and the project is getting to that end state. All of this is particularly applicable to IT projects.

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I have worked on all kinds of projects.  I’m well aware that project requirements will pit you against limitations of all sorts.  Indeed, we all recognize that we operate in a world of constraints; however, sometimes WE are the biggest constraint of all.   This leads me to the question, “Is your project bigger than yourself?”

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What is Project Leadership all about? What constitutes leadership, and how can we measure it? Why is it important to us? These are some questions that arise for me when I think about what I call the “Menund’r'm Conundrum”.

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The Project Management Institute, Prince II, and numerous other project management centric organizations have, for some time, had at their core that there is great an broad value to the application of structured and formal project management. At the same time, people have been managing projects really for about as long as humans have existed, albeit with varying levels of complexity. The question is, what is the value of formal project management?

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The title of this post might seem funny to many given that we seem to be living in a tumultuous present. How could things become more tumultuous? Well that’s just many predict is coming our way for the world of work. How might that impact project management work?

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Here are four keys to accurately estimating task duration for projects. The use of these varies from project to project and on each project type but nonetheless these four keys will provide a high degree of confidence that your risk is limited as to duration of tasks.

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Billboards are arguably one of the oldest means of promoting products and services commercially, for mass marketing. In terms of sheer size, billboards are the largest, capable of being displayed and viewed from a considerable distance. In the right situation, they can be an effective means of project communications.

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There is a need for a more fluid approach to project management. As human beings, we have developed as social beings that want to work with a bigger picture and in less compartmentalized situations. Large projects need to find a way to leverage the strengths of small projects, and technology can help.

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Many PMs would benefit by earning another certification because of their industry or functional affiliation. For example, it may be career enhancing for a PM in the pharmaceutical or construction industry to earn another certification, to complement the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, directly related to their industry. Similarly, some PMPs might specialize in certain functional areas, like Human Resouces, Supply Chain Management, or financial projects. There are often certifications related to those, and you can earn PDUs to maintain your PMP certification while preparing for some of these other certifications.

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