- So you want to be a consultant?
- You're thinking of taking the plunge and going into business for yourself as an independent consultant, but you're uncertain about your chances. From my experience as an independent consultant for the last 16 years, here are a few pointers:Make the...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- Exhibit leadership on challenging projects
- Project managers need to be leaders. Leadership is easy when things are going well. It's when times are tough that being a good leader can be hard. It's also the time when strong leadership is most needed. Here are some things to keep in mind to...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- Use special project management techniques for dispersed teams
- In the past, a project team almost always resided in one location. The reason is obvious: it wasn't easy to communicate and collaborate with people who were not in the same physical location. Although it's still common for a project team to be in...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- Make sure your project deliverables are aligned to your objectives
- The Project Charter is used to define the project at a high-level. It contains information such as the objectives, scope, risk, assumptions, organization chart, etc. Did you know that there's a connection between the project objectives and the...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- Gain project approvals from the right stakeholders
- Before your project starts execution, you should have created a Project Charter, project schedule, and the Project Management Procedures. These are the three documents that will guide the subsequent execution of the project. Of course, these three...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- TechRepublic CSS Reference Table
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is becoming the de facto standard for many Web developers. But remembering the right value for the numerous CSS properties can be a challenge. Keep this easy-to-use CSS Reference Table handy the next time you need to...
- Download, 2007-08-07
- A four-step prescription for writing better project plans
- A long time ago, in a lifetime far far away, a client asked me to help their PMO produce useful project plans. Never one to turn away a job, I agreed to speak with him and review the documents his team produced. Leafing though the packet, I found...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- Handling NULL values in SQL Server 2005
- In the simplest terms, a NULL value represents an unknown value. It's unknown in the sensethat the value is: missing from the system, may not be applicable in the current situation, or might be added later. NULL values are different than any other...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- IRS employees successfully social engineered
- In an audit of IRS security rules by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, it appears that they were able to successfully social engineer IRS employees into improperly disclosing their user names and passwords -- a staggering 61% of...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- Avast Home Edition (exe)
- Avast Home Edition is a complete ICSA certified. Avast includes the following components: On demand scanner with skinnable simple interface, just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button; On access scanner, special...
- 2007-08-05
- Share USB 2.0 devices over your LAN
- Weary of running a desktop just to keep USB devices online or of connecting them to your wireless laptop by entangling cables? Keyspan has upgraded its three-year-old USB Server design with its new USB 2.0 Server, which connects a pair of USB 2.0...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- 10 midyear resolutions for project managers
- Are you happy with the way your projects have been going so far this year or are you running into too many obstacles and delays? With 2007 already half gone, now's a good time to take stock and decide which objectives and improvement goals will help...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- Getting beyond the 'bull' perception
- Once there was a cattle rancher who had a problem: his cows hadn't borne any calves for a long time. He hired various bulls to do the job, but even though they appeared to work fervently at their task, nothing was ever produced.One day the cattle...
- Blog, 2007-08-06
- Is Mozilla’s Thunderbird going to get kicked out of the nest?
- I came home from my vacation last week to some troubling news. The future of my preferred e-mail client, Thunderbird, is up for debate. Mozilla Corp. CEO Mitchell Baker, breaks the news in her blog: "...Mozilla doesn't focus on Thunderbird as much...
- Blog, 2007-08-10
- End of the free storage era
- Someone - who must have been terribly hungry then, once said: "There is no such thing as a free lunch." Well, for those of you who have always maintained that nothing can ever be free forever - even products by Internet behemoth Google, you've got...
- Blog, 2007-08-10
- Technology auto lock down: Just add alcohol
- Do you like to drink heavily? Do you have absolutely no self-control when it comes to refraining from getting behind the wheel of your vehicle when you're schnockered? If you answered "yes" to both of these questions, Nissan's new concept car may be...
- Blog, 2007-08-10
- Eliminating frustration with key remapping
- I recently posted two posts in the How do I... blog showing how to disable or change keys that annoy and frustrate so many people.First was a post on how to disable the Insert key in Microsoft Word to prevent accidentally toggling the overtype mode....
- Blog, 2007-08-10
- Exchange 2007: 32-bit vs. 64-bit
- In reading through comments regarding Exchange 2007's lack of 32-bit support and confusion around why Microsoft decided to provide a 32-bit "test" version of Exchange 2007, I thought I'd offer some facts about this version and some possible reasons...
- Blog, 2007-08-10
- What kind of reliability can you expect from flash/solid state storage?
- How reliable will your flash or solid state storage device remain over time? This is the question I'll be exploring here, along with the basics of how these devices actually work. (I use the terms "flash" and "solid state" interchangeably.)Your...
- Blog, 2007-08-10
- Some telecommuting for government workers could become law
- A lot of IT people associate the name "Sarbanes" with working harder. After all, it was Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) who co-sponsored the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that changed the way corporations handle data. Mr. Sarbanes is back but this time he's...
- Blog, 2007-08-10
- Coming soon to a laptop near you: 1.2TB hard drives
- In the relentless bid to pursue ever greater aerial density on even smaller devices, Fujitsu will be announcing another breakthrough later this week related to perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.In effect, the company has created...
- Blog, 2007-08-10
- Troubleshooting A Failed Hard Drive Power Checklist
- The hard drive is one of the most important components in a computer because this is where most of us store all our data. As a result, hard drive prob ...
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