Jackson Healthcare Launches HealthIT Project Managers – Press Release – Digital Journal
“This is a great staffing niche. There are simply not enough Project Managers in this field.” -Scott
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Jackson Healthcare, an Atlanta-based organization of staffing and technology companies, has announced the creation of the new health IT staffing firm, HealthIT Project Managers.
According to Jackson, the new company focuses exclusively on supporting CIOs with their IT projects rather than offering traditional consulting engagements. The company’s primary interest is in projects that tend to get delayed or never started due to trans formative engagements like electronic medical records (EMR).
Tags: healthcare project managers
Link: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/488096
Date: Saturday, 12 November 2011, 9:02 pm
IT project managers: The quick and the dead | It management – InfoWorld
“Just talked with my students today about project selection. Cost and quality can have little meaning in markets where you are not on stable ground. Having ways to avoid large upfront capital costs can also be more important when you don’t think that you will have 10 years to get your ROI.” -Scott
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What used to matter most in IT project management — cost and quality — now ranks below speed, capacity, and adaptability
Link: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-management/it-project-managers-the-quick-and-the-dead-178297
Date: Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 9:12 pm
Wrike’s Project Management App Launches on the Google Apps Marketplace
“The Days of Stand Alone Project management Software are numbered….I hope”-Scott
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Today, Wrike announced it has launched a free version of its award-winning application on the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google’s online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. Wrike is the leading social project management and collaboration software that helps thousands of teams worldwide get things done by working together in real time. With Wrike, Google Apps Marketplace users can now assign, discuss and schedule tasks, organize projects and smoothly collaborate on them in one spot without leaving their Google accounts.
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/09/prweb8950478.DTL
Date: Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 9:09 pm
Think Liquid, not Solid, Project Plans
“Sometimes letting go of your well thought out project plan is the best and hardest thing that you can do as a PM”-Scott
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A detailed plan that’s considered solid today may not survive future uncertainty. The customer thinks that the project manager has everything under control and the project will go according to plan. The project manager is confident of the plan, but the rigid plan may blind her or him to recognize a shift in the customer’s needs and the need to adjust the plan
Link: http://www.pmi.org/eNews/Post/2011_11-07/Next-Level-Up.html
Date: Sunday, 6 November 2011, 8:52 pm
Community Post
“Trust is so much more important that any other part of a relationship between the PM and stakeholders (or team members). You can tolerate mistakes, but you can tolerate having someone you don’t trust as a PM.”-Scott
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ne of the most important relationships a project manager can build is the one with the project sponsor and it is one that project managers often find challenging to build and maintain.
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According to PMI’s 2010 Government Program Management Study, 81 percent of program managers at U.S. government agencies said that strong support from at least one executive-level sponsor had a high impact on project success.
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Link: http://www.pmi.org/eNews/Post/2011_11-07/Relationship-with-Project-Sponsor.html
Date: Sunday, 6 November 2011, 8:40 pm
PMI Research and Education Conference | Project Management Institute
“Looks like a great conference again this year. If you are interested in getting together a presentation about teaching project management and want to collaborate, let me know.” -Scott
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The upcoming PMI Research and Education Conference will take place on 15-18 July 2012 in Limerick, Ireland. The conference is a premier international project management research and education event. It brings together the audience of scholars, senior practitioners and students of project management and allied disciplines. The event provides an opportunity for attendees to present and discuss new project management research findings and teaching methods.
If you are interested in presenting at this conference, you may submit your proposal now. The call for conference submissions is now open. It will close on 1 December 2011. The conference registration will open in February 2012.
Link: http://www.pmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Research-Conference.aspx
Date: Sunday, 6 November 2011, 8:34 pm
EZW to adapt new project management system
“It is interested how implementing a PMO is one of the best thing that any projectized organization can do to increase quality of its processes. The Baldridge award, of the Missouri Quality Award, criteria lead themselves well to use of a project management office.” -Scott
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The new system, Organisational Project Management Office (OPMO) follows global best practices and is compliant with standards and criteria laid out by the Project Management Institute, the world’s leading not-for-profit membership association for project management. The system will enhance methodology, enterprise project management and training which represents the human aspect of the projec
Tags: management project PMO
Link: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/business/2011/May/business_May110.xml§ion=business&col=
Date: Thursday, 5 May 2011, 5:25 pm