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Project: a set of activities designed to achieve a specified goal, within a given period of time. Projects focus on activities outside the routine operations of...; Project definition on BNET »

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Managing Small Projects: Applying the best practices to even a small project can be done without creating too much paperwork or overhead. The best practices are the things which countless project managers have done on thousands of projects and are deemed to be the 'Best practice' because they tend to help you to...; Tags: Project, Best Practice, Business Performance; White papers 2008-01-01
Rejection Of Quotation: Use this template to inform the firm or individual who is interested to get in business with you and applied quotation for a particular project that their quotation has been rejected. Suppliers quoting on a project deserve the courtesy of a response. Specify why they didn't get the business and...; Tags: Project, Best Sample Letters, Channel Management, Marketing; Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Seventeen "Must Ask" Questions For Planning Successful Projects: Why do some projects proceed without a hitch, yet others flounder? One reason may be the type and quality of the questions people ask at the very start. This paper explains 17 insightful queries that can expose the uncertain aspects of your project, and thereby help you avoid expensive surprises...; Tags: Project, Business Performance; White papers 2008-01-01
Only Good Guys Look For Jobs?: According to the resumes that are distributed to large corporations and small businesses, only good guys look for jobs. This seems to be especially true in the Information Technology field. You will never see a resume that shows that a project was cancelled, or that the programmer was removed from...; Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, Job, Project, KalAajKal.com, Recruitment & Selection; White papers 2008-01-01
New Jobs Fuel Multifamily Construction: A construction frenzy is well underway in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, as it seems a new multifamily project is going up on every decent last available plot of land. And with land becoming increasingly scarce, developers are turning to prime sites with older properties on them that provide redevelopment opportunities....; Tags: Job, Project, O'Connor & Associates, Construction Frenzy, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2007-12-10

Estimating Time Accurately: Accurate time estimation is a skill essential to good project management. It is important to get time estimates right for two main reasons: Time estimates drive the setting of deadlines for delivery of projects, and hence peoples' assessments of your reliability; They often determine the pricing of contracts and hence...; Tags: Project, Time Estimation, Productivity, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2007-12-01
The Importance Of Over Estimating Time Spent On A Project: Let's face it - projects rarely go exactly as planned. Projects usually involve a finite amount of uncertainty risk that may lead to problems and surprises during the course of the project. Dealing with "Surprises" generally requires more time, energy, and money than originally planned. So how do project managers...; Tags: Project; White papers 2007-12-01
Managing Projects Effectively: Project management is a technique used to organize work into separate, definable units to ease the coordination of different tasks. Although its earliest roots can be traced to the military and the construction industry, NASA’s legendary achievement of landing Neil Armstrong on the moon popularized the technique. Since then, Governments...; Tags: Project Manager, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Project, Management, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-11-28
Business Analysis: A Guide To Better Business Requirements: This paper presents ten business analysis guidelines, representing best practices from successful projects. In the world of business, some projects gain management support and fly, making an enormous difference to the success a company has in the marketplace, whilst other projects crash and burn, whilst still radiating heat from the...; Tags: Project, Analysis, Data Administration Newsletter; White papers 2007-11-01
Take The Time To Manage Time: How does the author find the balance in getting and keeping control of multiple projects and prioritizing job demands? In the midst of the chaos of today's ever-changing business world, we need effective skills to help manage the sometimes overwhelming amount of projects we face day-to-day while still maintaining our...; Tags: Project, IKnowNow, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2007-10-21
Keeping On Top of Project Management: A project can be an awkward beast to manage. Because the purpose of a project is to bring about change, the context is often unsettled and uncertain. As a result, unexpected issues tend to crop up—changes occur and mistakes are made. An effective project manager must accept that the unexpected...; Tags: Team management, Tools & Techniques, risk analysis, project manager, team, change request, risk assessment, BNET Editorial, Contingency Plan, TechnicalThis, Decision, Project Management, Management, Security, Strategy, Change, Risk, Project; Articles 2007-10-08
Creating Cross-Functional Teams: Most business projects require a wide variety of skills to complete the tasks involved. If you’re managing such a project, it’s almost axiomatic that you will be directing a group of individuals from different backgrounds: They may be members of your own organization, from other units of your company, or...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Management, Action, Organization, Motivation, Project, Team Management, Team Member, Delegation, Team, team-building, recruiting, project management, information technology, women, accounting, telecommunications, monitor, analysis, leader, job, performance, environment, phone, computer; Articles 2007-10-04
Film Director Joe Carnahan: Managing a $17 Million Project: Directing a film is a lot like running a business. You have a budget. You have crew. And then you have the biggest H.R. challenge the world has ever known: celebrity egos. Director Joe Carnahan has worked on the low-budget "Narc," the $17 million "Smokin' Aces" and the $180 million...; Tags: Director, Smokin Aces, ego, creative decisions, George Clooney, Dog And Pony, filmmaking, human resources, Narc, politics, budgeting, Joe Carnahan, Project; Videos 2007-09-26
Project Leader Job Description: The Project Leader job description template includes the following job summary: Assists in planning and coordinating systems analysis design and implementation projects. Such projects involve the development of new data processing applications systems or the substantial modification of existing systems. Projects may also involve major changes in data processing resources...; Tags: Job, Project, Leader, Position, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Managing Technology Development Projects: Technology development projects are the foundation or platform for new products and new processes and thus are vital to the prosperity of the modern corporation. But these basic research or fundamental knowledge-build projects are often mismanaged because companies employ the wrong process to manage them or apply inappropriate financial criteria...; Tags: Project, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2007-08-15
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) And Truthiness: Thirteen Ways To Avoid Nearly Accurate Vendor Statements: The word "Truthiness" means a preference to state ideas one wants to be true instead of stating the actual facts. In advertising, truthiness is expected. However, in major technology implementations, especially Enterprise Resource Planning ERP projects, you need to know the difference between fact and truthiness. The difference will dramatically...; Tags: Project, Fact, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2007-06-06
Securing Business Grants and Funding: Both public and private sector organizations award grants routinely, almost always for a specific project or purpose. For example, a grant might be awarded to help a business develop a new product, buy equipment, run a training program, or research a specific problem. A typical grant is a one-time payment...; Tags: federal government, grant, application, project, Government, Business Operations, Investment, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Research & Development, Business, Marketing, Finance, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-05-29
An Introduction To Project Management: A project is temporary, unique, and the product of a multifaceted and progressively elaborated process that produces a solution for a specific objective. For the endeavor to be successful, the project must be accomplished on time, within budget, and to the appropriate degree required to satisfy the objective. For success...; Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Project, It Operations, It service Management, Management; White papers 2007-01-30
Resource Allocation When Projects Have Ranges Of Increasing Returns: We examine the problem of optimally allocating a fixed budget to a finite number of different investment projects. The marginal productivity of capital in a project is first increasing then decreasing with the amount of capital invested in it. When the total budget is below some lower cutoff value, the...; Tags: Budget, Project, Cutoff, Allocation; White papers 2007-01-24
Accuracy Through Scope Management: Project "Success" is still an elusive goal for many organizations. This is not to say that projects are not delivered, but rather to comment on how they are delivered through a review of the project cost, delivery schedule, implementation issues, and scope as delivered relative to the initial plan. While...; Tags: Project; White papers 2007-01-01