Working with Virtual Teams – Tools , Techniques and Success Factors

Virtual teams are individuals or groups who dispersed geographically but work together to accomplish a common goal or a project scope.These teams may have limited or no face to face interactions between them.Though the team members may be physically located in different geographies, they share a common goal among them and have roles and responsibilities [...]

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5 Key Areas Where An Enterprise Project Management Solution Must Focus.

My last week’s visit to the Oracle Open World in San Francisco predominantly consisted of attending the Enterprise Project Management Solutions (EPM) sessions and interacting with people who had an Enterprise Project Management solution implemented in their organizations .While still high on these sessions and discussions,  felt just appropriate to look at the key areas [...]

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Enterprise Project Portfolio Management at the Oracle Open World 2010

This post is actually a sequel to the last post “Supercharging your next conference visit” . With Oracle’s acquisition of Primavera, and with an already existing Enterprise Project Suite offering within their Enterprise Application’s Suite it has positioned Oracle as strong leader within the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) ecosystem. The OOW 2010 is huge. [...]

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Supercharge Your Next Conference Visit (Apps & Common Sense)

From the Oracle Open World to the PMI Global Congress, the list of upcoming conferences are endless. Attending these long multi-day conference,can be pretty chaotic experience and leave you with high and dry feeling if not planned in advance.Planning for your conference visit starts early, even if you are not a presenter, speaker or the host, ideally [...]

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Use a Responsibility Matrix to fight Project CHAOS

Project teams, specially those working on large projects or programs with a lot of cross functional interactions, its common to have ambiguity to creep on the ownership of specific deliverable. In such cases a Project Responsibility Matrix can be used as an effective tool to reduce CHAOS by creating a clear accountability rules for the [...]

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