Sponsoring a Project (By Dave Nielsen, PMP)

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=80809222&gid=2107859&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eprojectsmart%2Eco%2Euk%2Fsponsoring-a-project%2Ehtml&urlhash=np8M&trk=news_discuss

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Blend out

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=80253133&gid=37888&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eworkcoachcafe%2Ecom%2F2009%2F10%2F26%2Fwhat-i-learned-about-jobs-from-my-cat%2F&urlhash=KDgy&trk=news_discuss

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Self Publishing - Lulu.com

http://www.lulu.com/

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Norkom’s Enterprise Fraud Management receives Positive Rating | Print |

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=79027558&gid=128568&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enorkom%2Ecom%2Fpress%2Fpress-releases%2Fpress-releases-2009%2F547-norkoms-enterprise-fraud-management-receives-positive-rating%2Ehtml&urlhash=j0uf&trk=news_discuss

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Mortgage fraud risk report

http://www.interthinx.com/pdf/09_Q3MFRI_FNL.pdf

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Center for Outsourcing Research and Education (CORE)

About CORE -

CORE is a non-profit organization, governed by a Board drawn from its sponsoring organizations, which have deep outsourcing expertise. We are devoted to the issue of making outsourcing work more effectively, and we will leverage the skills and capabilities of many organizations in achieving this goal.

CORE‘s management consists of its President/CEO, Molly Pellecchia, Board Chair, John Simke and Corporate Secretary, Richard Corley. Charu Murti is CORE's Research & Program Coordinator.

We are also building a network of alliances with organizations also interested in outsourcing. These include business and technology associations, industry groups, media organizations and public sector enterprises.

Kroll Global Fraud Report

Lessons Learned for More Successful Joint Project

1. Define clear path to identify, report and resolve resource (people) issue crossing organizational boundaries
2. Define, communicate, and clarify roles and responsibilities upfront
3. Allow time to ramp up and prepare before starting a major work packages
4. Plan and execute incremental reviews for major deliverables
5. Vet project schedule by work package owner
6. Plan and execute regular review of plans to identify and capture changes
7. Establish clear criteria for change request
8. Encourage collaboration in preparing change request
9. Share resource availability crossing organizational boundaries

How to Survive a New Boss

by Rebecca Schalm

What's not working?
How can I work with you effectively?
How can I help?

Who’s Really on Your Team? How to Work with Difficult People

PMI Community Post, by Pattie Vargas, MAOM, PMP

Never Say No - Managing Change in a Project

A blog posted by Martin Burns

Never Say No To a Client

Project Managers: Just Say No!

A blog posted by Raven Young at Raven's Brain under Project Management

Saying "No": A Tutorial for Project Managers

by Rick Brenner

Have you ever thought "Why did I ever agree to do that" ?
Have you ever wished that you knew better how to say no — or even how to avoid volunteering to do something — without suffering undue consequences?
Giving a firm and clear No can feel good if it comes from a place of high self-esteem.

How to Say No

By John Hrastar

Goddard Space Flight Center

John offerred two points of thought re. saying no as a project manager:
1. Focus on meeting the basic requirements
2. You don't necessarily need to know how to solve the problem. The refusal forces a reappraisal of the issue, possibly stimulating more creative solutions.

You cannot outsource risk

According to Gartner, more than 60% of companies do not do any security risk mitigation when outsourcing development.

Rob Rachwald has some suggestions.

International Project Management Standard - ISO 21500

IT trends in banking: key focus for 2009

European banks will this year invest in IT to improve risk management, increase flexibility and reduce complexity. And they will outsource and offshore more…

Outsourcing can offer good returns

IT outsourcing has proved disappointing for many companies, failing to live up to the promises of the business case or deliver the expected return on investment. But good management can turn it into a success, as Liz Warren discovers.

…So you want to be an independent consultant…

By Jennifer (Tharp) Russell, President, Mastodon Consulting and Alex S. Brown, PMP, President, Real-Life Projects, Inc.

Statutory holidays in Ontario

Often missed holidays in 2009:

• Family Day (Third Monday in February) - Mon, February 16
• Good Friday - Fri, April 10
• Victoria Day (Monday before May 25) - Mon, May 18
• Civic Holiday (First Monday in August) - Mon, August 3
• Labour Day (First Monday in September) - Mon, September 7
• Thanksgiving Day (Second Monday in October) - Mon, October 12