by Brian Crawford | Mar 21, 2010 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
The PMBOK (or PMBOK Guide) is the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, one of the key sources of PMI (Project Management Institute) standards and guidelines. This comprehensive project management document describes the norms, methods, processes and...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 14, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
St. Patrick’s Day has arrived, and once again many of my friends in the United States are getting ready for the day’s celebrations. One friend is currently in Savannah, home of the second largest St. Patrick’s Day event in the country. Friends are...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 13, 2010 | Marketing, Product Design
Back when I was working as an intern at Microsoft (over a decade ago!) I wrote a couple of articles for my site Process Magic (now not much more than an example of what web design used to look like). I came across this one the other day and found it still relevant, so...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 13, 2010 | Agile Development, Project Management
Scrum as a product development methodology is certainly growing in popularity. Having managed projects using several different project management frameworks I can attest to the flexibility and scalability of Scrum, especially when compared to the waterfall method....
by Brian Crawford | Mar 12, 2010 | Social Networking
There are plenty of social media sites out there. The Wikipedia list of social networking websites currently lists 180 social networking sites that exist online – and that number is going to grow. Several sites make an attempt to make sense of all of the chaos...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 12, 2010 | Project Management
Today Focus published the following graphic that displays, based on salary, flexibility, job security and other factors, the best jobs in America: IT Project Management scored as the 5th best job in America, out of 7,000 jobs – a great success for the...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 20, 2010 | PMI, Project Management
Attending PMI meetings is not mandatory for PMI members and PMP certificate holders, but I’ve found it to be a useful way to spend a lunch hour. PMI meetings normally take an hour and a half (ours have run from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM on weekdays) and feature a...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 27, 2010 | Social Networking
EDIT: Unfortunately, as of June 1, 2011, Collecta has shut down its real-time search service. But all may not be lost; Collecta has indicated that it plans to work with a variety of organizations (including United Way crisif relief projects) to open source its...
