by Brian Crawford | May 5, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
Today is Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday that takes place annually on the fifth of May. Here in the United States Cinco de Mayo is widely celebrated, even by those not of Mexican or Mexican-American origin – this evening great numbers of people will be eating...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 14, 2010 | ITIL, Project Management
While working in the Project Portfolio Office of a bank in Ireland I became ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management certified. The Foundation Level of ITIL is the first stage in learning the key concepts, structure, terminology and processes of ITIL. ITIL stands for...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 12, 2010 | PMI, Project Management
The PMI Registered Education Provider (REP) program is a training provider certification program run by PMI for providers that issue Professional Development Units (PDUs) for project management training courses. The REP program was created to enhance the ongoing...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 9, 2010 | PMI, Project Management
The featured story in the Project Management Institute’s PMI Today magazine was the results of the sixth edition of PMI’s Project Management Salary Survey. The highlight of the survey was that despite the ongoing recession, many project managers have...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 6, 2010 | PMI, PMP Certification, Project Management
PDUs are Professional Development Units, necessary for maintaining Project Management Institute (PMI)-certified credentials. They are a part of PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) program. One PDU is worth one hour of project management training,...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 2, 2010 | Social Networking
Contrary to what you might think when you first hear its name, a Gravatar is neither an Autobot nor a Decepticon. Rather, it is a Globally Recognized Avatar, an avatar (or image) that follows you to the WordPress blogs you go to online (Blogger doesn’t currently...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 1, 2010 | Agile Development, Project Management
The story of the pig and the chicken has several variations, but it usually goes something like this: A chicken and a pig are hanging out on the farm (as pigs and chickens often do) trying to decide between the two of them what they can make for breakfast. The chicken...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 26, 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...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 21, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
This weekend we’re experiencing the Vernal Equinox; one of two times of the year when the hours of light in the day are equal to the hours of darkness at nighttime (the term “equinox” is derived from the Latin aequus, meaning equal, and nox, meaning...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 21, 2010 | PMI, Project Management
PMI is the Project Management Institute, a not-for-profit professional association dedicated to “advancing the practice, science and profession of project management throughout the world”. They do this in a conscious, proactive manner to increase the...
