DER Management

An important development in recent years is that Project Management has become legitimized as an understood business practice for businesses and organizations that need continuous, active, repeatable management of effort.  The Project Management Office (PMO) is an entity to support Project Management with oversight and process development.  But the PMO can risk being swayed by the business to serve specific audiences instead of the overall business itself.  This can undermine or contort the mission of the PMO.

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Several project management lessons learned have been recorded over our past three years of exposure to the use of Offshore development teams for US-based projects.  I offer some insight into common traps, easy tricks, and where reality meets expectations.

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I recently offered some commentary on controlling SPAM at the mail server that I felt was worth sharing. This feedback was provided to a user whose mail server was under nearly perpetual attack from name harvesting and other issues.