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Good projects map well to organizational goals. In fact, the best organizations make sure their initiatives are in alignment with their strategic plan. Whether for project initiation or for simply evaluating how the value of a project fits within the organization, becoming familiar with the strategic plan is invaluable.

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There is an interesting aspect to the relationship between processes and projects. Where processes are what keep a business flowing on a day to day basis, projects are what puts new processes in place, re-shapes existing processes, or replaces a process. Processes have lifecycle; most processes have a finite life. Thus projects have a very definite place in the lifecycle of processes.

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Personality is an important consideration in team building. Think about how people have different individual work styles and how they work differently in a group differs! Understanding how you and your team members tend to work can help each of us to work together more effectively. One popular way to discover personalities and its effect work styles is the use of the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

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Building the Work Breakdown Schedule is a lot of good hard project management work. While it is fundamental to the practice of professional project management, often it is soft skills – including plain old determination and leadership – that in the end produce a strong WBS.

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Most of us have heard the acronym “stepping up to the plate”. But in the United States this past weekend, the victory of the New York Giants over the Green Bay Packers in the National Football Conference championship game gave some real hands-on meaning to it.

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More and more companies are becoming interested in increasing diversity in the workplace. Having different kinds of culture in the workplace can make the office more interesting: people will have different ideas, they can interact and find new things to be interested in through interaction with other cultures, and officemates can enrich each other’s work experience through cross-cultural interaction.

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Reports vary in form and function. However, they are by nature the same. They require a specific procedure to be performed and their end results differ. Reports are a valuable resource for use in a variety of fields and industries – academic assignments, consumer studies, project management, industrial research, etc. For projects, they are often used to report and communicate project status, but it goes beyond that.

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When it comes to press releases, there’s not much difference between creating one for newspapers or magazines, or for the World Wide Web. What’s important is that you are able to maintain all of the important elements that should be present in an advertising copy. But more important is that the release is, in some way, newsworthy.

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Edmund Hillary, of Auckland , New Zealand, , died on January 11,2008. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay were the first humans to climb Mount Everest. This hit me especially because I have always had a great interest and enthusiasm for the outdoors, and I just finished reading a great book about the climbing of Mount Everest. What makes Hillary’s death even more interesting for PMcrunch is that he was in practice actually a great project manager!

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Agile and Scrum are gaining in momentum and popularity. Here is a list of Agile and Scrum Project Management resources.

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