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	<description>Excellence in IT Project Management</description>
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		<title>Procurement Teams must have performance incentives too!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our recent interaction with an embedded procurement team proves that saving money and &#8220;rationalizing&#8221; the vendor portfolio are only part of the picture for a procurement initiative.  Procurement teams must be bound to performance metrics and incentives to keep projects performing well too!

In these challenging economic times, it&#8217;s not surprising that companies are focussing more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/28</link>
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		<title>Year 2007 - Consulting Accomplishments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DER Management delivered important value to our customers in 2007.

In 2007 we performed services consulting for a large ISP to migrate and consolidate several existing qmail/vpopmail servers into one, larger solution.  Over 8,500 users were successfully migrated.  We learned quite a bit in the exercise and the customer is quite happy with the new solution.
We also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/20</link>
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		<title>PMP PDUs: diminishing value sham or real professional development?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a disturbing trend in the professional development (read: education) marketplace where PDUs for renewing your PMP are being over-commoditised.

Let&#8217;s backup and cover a bit of background on the PMP certification and its ongoing requirements&#8230;
When one earns the Professional Project Manager (PMP) certification, you have passed a rigorous examination in all the areas of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/18</link>
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		<title>Manually mass adding users to qmail or vpopmail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised that documentation is so sparse on the &#8216;net on how to manually mass add users to ezmlm for qmail or vpopmail.

 Let&#8217;s assume you&#8217;ve create a list called mylist@example.com
Let&#8217;s also assume you have a text file called &#8220;ezmlmusers-add.txt&#8221; that contains the new users you want to add with one full email address per line.
On linux, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/17</link>
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		<title>A caution in identifying project benefits - counting staff hours recapture.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our practice work in IT Project Management has included considerable time spent on benefits analysis and benefits realization.  In this article I caution the reader concerning benefits capture strategies that contemplate recapturing staff hours.

Every IT project should perform a benefits analysis and should try to demonstrate a positive value to the organization.  This is a fundamental step [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/16</link>
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		<title>DER Management - 2006 Annual Summary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to share that at the end of 2006, DER Management has successfully completed management of project efforts totalling $21.4MM.

This represents projects in a variety of functional needs and technologies including:

Microsoft .NET development oversight
qmail, vpopmail, apache, courier IMAP, squirrelmail, php, mysql, spamassassin mail server install and management
Technology refresh of remote offices
Sharepoint 2003 installation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/15</link>
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		<title>The Innocense of the Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an anecdotal piece, I wanted to offer a perspective on the general process of interviewing.  Interviewing is often associated with job interviews, but it also takes place in other areas of projects, business, and most aspects of everyday life.  The question is - do your tactics suit the need?  And when should you play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/12</link>
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		<title>How can my Company use a PMO?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/11</link>
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		<title>Offshoring Lessons Learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

In the interest of a dialogue-style discussion, let&#8217;s first visit some common expectations about Offshoring first and then see if they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/9</link>
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		<title>SPAM Control at the Mail Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

Doing reverse lookups of REPLY-TO or FROM addresses against MX records or DNS for assurance that a sender [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dermanagement.com/archives/4</link>
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