by Brian Crawford | Feb 28, 2011 | International Business, Language and Culture, Project Management
Recently I’ve become the project manager of an international project with participants spread throughout six different countries on three separate continents: North America, Europe and Asia. We have been meeting to discuss a variety of different requirements...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 9, 2011 | International Business
Yvonne writes: Last year, just before Christmas, my husband got a new job where he will be working as a project manager in France, and managing projects throughout Europe and some parts of Asia. The job required him to be in Paris by the end of January; however, as...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 1, 2011 | International Business, Language and Culture
I’ve been known to do some traveling now and then… I have one British and one Canadian parent, both fond of experiencing the world, so as a kid I managed to make it to Europe and various parts of the United States and Canada, and for a summer I even lived...
by Brian Crawford | Sep 13, 2010 | Software, Technology
Here’s another article I wrote for my site Process Magic, back in 1998. In it I predicted a few futures, some of which ended up coming true, and some of which came out somewhat differently! Regardless, it’s fun to think back to 12 years ago (when I was...
by Brian Crawford | Jul 13, 2010 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
As a part of every issue of PMI Today, the Project Management Institute’s monthly newsletter published as a supplement to PM Network magazine, PMI features a small section called PMI Fact File which features statistics about the number of PMI members, new...
by Brian Crawford | Jul 1, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
Today is Canada Day and being a Canadian native living in the United States I have been fielding many questions about the holiday. A lot of my friends are aware that it is Canada Day (it’s on their calendars, or Canadian friends living here in the Deep South...
by Brian Crawford | Jun 3, 2010 | International Business
A trip to Mars? Today, an international team of scientists (an international six-man crew consisting of one Russian, one Frenchman, one Italian-Colombian and one Chinese) was been locked into a set of windowless steel capsules for 520 days to take part in a simulation...
by Brian Crawford | May 23, 2010 | Marketing
What are customer contact points? Customer contact points are those points of contact at which businesses interact directly with their customers. This can include, for example, in-person communication, telephone conversations, interaction through the Internet,...
by Brian Crawford | May 16, 2010 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
If you’re going to be managing projects, it certainly helps to know what they are! As per PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge, a project has the following dimensions: A project is an endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result....
by Brian Crawford | May 8, 2010 | Social Networking
Lately I’ve been using Twitter in an attempt to connect and communicate about relevant, real-time information about some of the things I’m interested in – project management, PMP certification, the cities of Charleston (where I currently live),...
