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	<description>Ideas and Experiences of a Project Manager</description>
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		<title>Money Manages Itself. Doesn&#8217;t it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cost]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, don&#8217;t worry, I haven&#8217;t gone crazy.  I obviously don&#8217;t think that money manages itself and you don&#8217;t have to plan, control and monitor where the project is spending it.  So then why did I choose this title? The reason is that not long ago, a friend of mine was talking to someone who stated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming a PMP &#8211; Is it worth the effort?</title>
		<link>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/becoming-a-pmp-is-it-worth-the-effort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PMP®]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My company has offered me to become a Project Management Professional (PMP®). It is voluntary, so they will provide the means if I am willing to do the effort to pass the exam. So the first question that came to my mind was: Is it worth the effort?  So I analysed what you need and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does technology help productivity?</title>
		<link>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/does-technology-help-productivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Time Management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was talking to my brother.  He works at a small consulting company, and he is not very happy with his boss (and I&#8217;m being polite). They are struggling to get new contracts, and they have reached the point where they have agreed to work a few hours less a week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Example on How Planning Helps</title>
		<link>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/an-example-on-how-planning-helps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scope]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished a week of hard work and long hours. I want to share the experience with you because it clearly shows how stopping and planning can help you. The task We had to prepare a proposal for  a complex system.  The competition was expected to be high, so our proposal had to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you delegate enough?</title>
		<link>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/do-you-delegate-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important jobs of the project manager is to delegate project tasks. This is specially important when the project manager has a heavy technical background. It these cases, the temptation to do something because you can do it (and you are comfortable doing it) is very strong. Most of us (if not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How should a project manager make a decision?</title>
		<link>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/how-should-a-project-manager-make-a-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/how-should-a-project-manager-make-a-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Problem Analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[consequence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decision]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Decision making is one of the most important tasks the project manager has to deal with.  Everyone would agree that these decisions have an impact on the project, but it is sometimes overlooked that how the decision is made is also important. What should the project manager do?  Do a quick analysis and act fast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Requirements Management</title>
		<link>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/the-importance-of-requirement-management/</link>
		<comments>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/the-importance-of-requirement-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Requirements]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/?p=81</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you read the title, you probably thought of Requirements Management Tools like DOORS or RequisitePro.  This type of software is important and makes things easier, but we tend to focus too much on the tools and forget about the process they support. Let me tell you a story that happened to one of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Project Manager is a Facilitator</title>
		<link>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/the-project-manager-is-a-facilitator/</link>
		<comments>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/the-project-manager-is-a-facilitator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facilitator]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/?p=69</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The mission of the Project Manager is to get the project done in a timely manner, within budget and with the required quality.  In order to accomplish this mission, the project manager performs several tasks: Plan Monitor the progress Take appropriate actions These tasks can be performed in very different ways.  A manager could plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Always Rise up After you Fall Down</title>
		<link>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/always-rise-up-after-you-fall-down/</link>
		<comments>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/always-rise-up-after-you-fall-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failure]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/?p=64</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Working as a Project Manager, it is highly probable that one of your project fails sooner or later.  There are always risks that you will try to minimize, external factors that you will not be able to control, or you may just make a bad decision. I don&#8217;t want to be pessimistic.  I just want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Follow-up</title>
		<link>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/meeting-follow-up/</link>
		<comments>http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/meeting-follow-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Follow-up]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://projectmanagementthoughts.com/?p=60</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the key points to have a productive meeting is to write down a list of actions with the person responsible to do it and the due date. But this is just a requirement to get things done.  How many times have you committed to do something in a meeting and then you didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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