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  • Dates, Dates, Dates

    Spore is the computer gaming world's most anticipated release. Well, it was in 2005, and in 2006, and 2007. It should be released this month. Wired has a nice recap of the release dates' evolution. Two whole years late. Spore has been set to release "in a few months" for the last two...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 08-15-2008

  • Can time be managed?

    I am presently working on a glossary of terms related to project management. As I was looking for definitions of time management, I found this interesting comment on Wikipedia : "In a 2001 interview [2] , David Allen observed: You can't manage time, it just is. So "time management"...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 08-13-2008

  • Task dependencies

    Most projects require that some tasks are accomplished in a specific order. For example, in a publicity project, the marcomm firm will want the client to approve the design before it goes to press. When the client, the representative and the printer are not in the same city, the risk of the file going...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 07-11-2008

  • Fake emergencies ruin it for the rest of us

    It's part of my job at Websystems to reply to email enquiries about AceProject. I get asked all sorts of questions, from pricing to features to integration with external systems (via CSV files). I enjoy replying to these emails because they give me a good idea of what our clients are looking for...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 06-27-2008

  • Do you account for summer vacations?

    Here at Websystems, we are starting to feel the summer groove coming on: we are seeing more and more vacation automated replies to emails. More than that, it seems the summer season puts people in a different mood: happier and mellower. It makes our jobs that much nicer, which is always appreciated ...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 06-13-2008

  • Now that you're late, how do you deal with it?

    Being late happens, even to the best projects. And when it happens, you need to deal with it. The longer you ignore a delay, the higher the chances of the delay growing longer. So how do you deal with a task being late in your project? Or the project itself being late? Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 06-06-2008

  • Get your fudge ratio

    Not, it's not how much fudge you can cram in yourself before you start feeling icky (although I wish!). The fudge ratio, as explained in this post from LifeHacker, reflects how good you are as estimating the time required to accomplish something. To get your fudge ratio, you must compare your time...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 05-30-2008

  • Project management and time management

    It seems to me that, while one can manage his/her time outside of a project, it would be difficult to manage a project without managing time. I could not imagine a project with a set of tasks, and no dates. How can one plan without time references? On the other end of that spectrum, if a project is late...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 02-22-2008
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