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Cloud Computing – Terms and Concepts

What do “Gmail”, “Dropbox” and other social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn have in common? They all employ the “Cloud” for storage purposes. Cloud computing – yet another hot topic in the IT world is outsourcing all applications relating to email, storage, networking to cloud providers. Hosting one’s own server and building one’s own infrastructure drains time and money. The primary advantage of using cloud computing is the cost savings for organizations. We will see some of the characteristics of cloud computing along with the different deployment models and security issues relating to cloud computing in this post. Characteristics of […]

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Reasons For Project Over Budget

The Project Manager needs to have a very effective tracking method, so that he/she can watch ‘burn’ rate real time. Otherwise there would authorized activities and purchases at a higher rate than expected or unauthorized activities within the budget. Just watching and approving of activity progress is not enough for the project manager. The manager should outline all the possibilities, assumptions and constraints before starting the actual implementation. An activity could actually require more effort or materials or there may be charges against the activity which shouldn’t be. Training and experience can add a lot to it. If you want

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Preferred Method For The Measurement Of Project Performance

In project management the Earned Value management is used for measuring the performance of software and other development projects. Establish your baseline phase-by-phase, baseline for coding and testing before the design is available. Make sure that every project activity (task) has clearly defined completion criteria that allow you to objectively determine that it is “done.” From an agile view, while EVM focuses on plans versus actuals, the value delivered to the user. EVM people say that the project is a failure when it fails to deliver all of the specified functionality on time and budget. For agile developers the project is

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Whizlabs Announces Six Sigma Green Belt Online Course

Acclaimed as the global leader in providing professional certifications courses in Technology and Project Management domains to participants across 125+ countries over a period of 16 years, Whizlabs has catered to the needs of over 2 million users. Looking at the ever-increasing demand for certified set of professionals this initiative was taken-up a decade and a half ago. Going by its mission statement -“To get everyone certified nobody left out”, Whizlabs has recently announced yet another certification course under the Six Sigma Certification category. Just like any other certification, Six Sigma is a quality certification course that certifies the confirmation

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Effective Project Communication Is Key To Good Decision-Making

Project management is a very important part of companies and involves organizing and managing the company’s resources for successful completion of projects. A project is a temporary and one time job needed to create a unique product or service apart from the daily operational activities of the company. Project management means completing a project successfully, on time, within budget and meeting customer’s acceptance criteria. It is applicable to big and small both type of projects. Once the project manager had set a project schedule, it is followed to know if the project is ahead of time or behind. He then

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Reasons Which Turn A Manager To A Micro Manager

There are many reasons why a project manager suddenly starts micro managing his team. If the Project Manager does not trust a member of the team, then he/she needs to set realistic goals and provide feedback, instead of micromanagement. This can result in replacement of the non performing team member if he/she fails, depending on the nature of the project and organizational culture. Fear of the consequences of failure resulting from a valid or perceived lack of trust in their team would be the most common cause, but a desire to always be in control would be another. Generally people

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Reasons For Failure Of Leadership Development Programs

Today most of the companies go through the leadership development and training programs.  The primary objective of these programs is overall development of senior members of the company so that they can contribute their best to achieve the company’s goals and objectives. But today these programs are conducted just because others are also doing so. To run the course they arrange training and development programs by internal or external trainers. But there are very little follow ups and measurement of the results. Because when people actually come up with innovation they are reluctant to accept it. The objective key results

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Is it practically possible to equally respect the contributions of all team members?

It is the project manager’s responsibility to try to treat the team members equally even if their contribution in the project is not significant or equal. Sometime managers become moderators to the extent possible normalizers. While all team members are likely not equal, time spent mentoring and giving voice to less equal individuals pays dividends later. Respect and recognition are two different terms, yes all should be given equal respect but recognize – no you cannot recognize all, as the recognition becomes meaningless. Respect is not about an equality rating and it is earned in a work environment just like valued

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Information Security program for organizations– is it necessary?

In an age when most of us spend most of our time online, a great amount of business and personal information is being generated. ‘Information Security’ is defined as securing that business or personal information by using varied programs, software and concepts. ‘Information is power’ goes the popular adage and securing it in today’s world is one of the most pressing issues facing InfoSec professionals today. In the current business scenario, “security” should never be an afterthought and should always be incorporated into the corporate strategy according to the size of the organization. For most of us, unknowingly, security is

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Exceptions II

We will extend our discussion about ‘Exceptions’ which we had started in an earlier post. These were the key takeaways from our earlier post: Differences between checked and unchecked exceptions Important points regarding ‘finally’ clause Specific exceptions must be declared before the general exceptions In this post, we will discuss the legal and illegal forms of ‘try-catch’ constructs and more ways to declare exceptions. A.  Legal and Illegal forms of ‘try-catch’ constructs : It is illegal to use ‘try-catch-finally’ clause without the ‘catch’ clause or the ‘finally’ clause. In other words, it is illegal to use the ‘try’ clause alone.

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