Articles of
Interest
Welcome to our virtual library! This is a resource
for you, as a VIP member and graduate of Cadence
training. As you proceed through your project
management career, we want to provide you with
information that might be of interest to you. We
have selected articles that we consider interesting
and represent challenges that we see being
experienced by project managers today.
November 9, 2006 -
"Constructive Feedback - How to Get the Best from Your
Employees." Giving feedback in a constructive
way is beneficial for everyone....
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November 9, 2006 - "Top Ten
Tips on How to Get the Best from Changing Situations,"
Change is thrust upon us ever hour of every
day-- in a radically and rapidly changing world, you just have
to get over it! There are ways to do this....
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November 18, 2002 — "Metrics and Critical Success Factors for Managing Organizations By Projects." Introduces key
performance measures and discusses linkage
between CSFs and Metrics. Usage of metrics
assesses MOBP and identifies continuous
improvements.
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November 11, 2002 — "Closing the
Strategic Vision /Implementation Gap" Two years
of field research paper, company CEOs/ strategic
planning directors, investigates link between
strategic plan and projects to implement
competitive advantage.
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November 1, 2002 — PMI Network Article Reprint of "Work Overload: What Can We Do About
It?" Article talks about taking the time to make
decisions up front that can prioritize the
project workload and help ease the Project
Manager’s stress load.
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the Acrobat PDF.
May 1,
2002 - Contract Pharma Article Reprint of "Planning a Computer System Validation Project"
Article describes achieving team ownership of a project plan and
using the ProgressixSM system to manage a process
validation project. The ProgressixSM system consists
of 3 major components - Progressive Elaboration, Six Honest
Serving Men and Progress - which the article defines in detail.
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February 1, 2000 — "Leading
A Project When You Have No Authority" How to gain cooperation of coworkers whose time and paychecks you don't control.
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This is always a challenge for project managers -
getting people to work on and buy in to your project
when they do not work for you. The article addresses
tips and techniques to help you be successful in
this area.
Topics of previous articles include:
- The Misused Project Manager
- Core Competencies for Project Managers
- Working in World Time
- Project Management with a Virtual Team
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