by Brian Crawford | Aug 16, 2011 | International Business, International Travel
If you’re working as a project manager, software trainer or business consultant, it’s likely that you have to travel from time to time to client offices for on-site client visits. I know I do – in fact, as I type this I’m sitting in Terminal 3...
by Brian Crawford | Jul 23, 2011 | Project Management
I’ve been managing complicated international projects lately, with team members spread out in different locations in Europe, North America and Asia. This has meant lots of online meetings, a great deal of extra communication, and plenty of oversight. There is...
by Brian Crawford | Jul 15, 2011 | Project Management, Software, Technology
I don’t know about you, but I get a lot of email. It’s not unusual for me to come back to my computer after a few hours away and have fifty new messages in my inbox, much of it important (though much of it not). And the messages can concern a variety of...
by Brian Crawford | Jul 10, 2011 | International Business, International Travel, Language and Culture
The other month I wrote about visiting a night market in Asia; in Penang, Malaysia to be specific. Today I’m going to talk about a different market, this one in Europe. Europe is famous for its local street markets – a lot of commerce goes on in the...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 15, 2011 | International Business, International Travel, Language and Culture
Last week I spent a week in Malaysia, in the city (and island) of Penang to be precise. While I was there I ate some great food, saw some historic sites, and even got to take a few close-up pictures of monkeys and their babies at the Penang Botanic Gardens. While I...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 1, 2011 | International Business, Language and Culture
Now that I’m living here in Paris, I’ve learned that there are several differences between the way that we celebrate certain holidays in North America, and the way that people celebrate those same holidays here in France or throughout the rest of Europe....
by Brian Crawford | Mar 18, 2011 | International Business, Language and Culture
A while back I posted three tips for traveling the world. Today I’m going to introduce four more tips. And of course, I am always interested in hearing about even more tips for making traveling the globe more enjoyable; let me know if you have any! Tip 4: Travel...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 16, 2011 | PMI, Project Management
Important note: As of the fall of 2015, PMI has changed the requirements for the maximum and minimum number of PDUs that may be earned in the various PDU categories. For information about these changes, please check out this post. In the February issue of PMI Today...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 14, 2011 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
All project managers certified as Project Management Professionals (PMPs) by the Project Management Institute (PMI) are required to earn a total of sixty Professional Development Units (PDUs) every three calendar years. I might be speaking for myself, but I’m...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 10, 2011 | Social Networking
The other day I was involved in a discussion that included talk about Twitpic, the most popular of the real-time media sharing sites on the Internet. The service was started by a fellow in Charleston, South Carolina, the town where I last lived (in fact, the site I...
