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Giveaway update

February 22, 2010

The blog giveaway of access to the closed beta trial of The Plan Is is now over, but you can still get your hands on a licence through the medium of Twitter.  Tweet me @pm4girls including the phrase ‘The Plan Is’ and I’ll enter you in the draw.  Before the end of this week, please, [...]

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Inside PRINCE2: Fixed date projects

February 15, 2010
This entry is part 2 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

Planning is an essential part of what project managers do, so you would expect there to be some mention of how to deal with fixed date projects in the PRINCE2 manuals.  There isn’t.  Fixed date projects only get a passing mention in the Managing Successful Projects book, and you’d have to look really hard to [...]

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Expert advice on fixed date projects

February 10, 2010

As part of this month’s focus on managing projects with fixed dates, I asked J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, Executive Vice President Product Strategy & Management at ESI International for some advice. What sort of projects have the delivery date fixed in advance? Projects that have their delivery dates in advance can be found in [...]

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The Plan Is Giveaway

February 8, 2010

Richard Revis is the brains behind The Plan Is, scheduling software that has been designed with fixed date projects in mind.  It is still in beta testing, and the final touches are being put to the software based on customer feedback.  There are still some bugs and quirks to iron out – you can read [...]

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Fixed Date Feb & ThePlanIs.com

February 3, 2010

There are some project dates that you just can’t move.  For example, my first attempt at knitting baby clothes for a friend’s newborn.  I couldn’t say to her to hang on a bit because the jumper wasn’t ready.  It had to be wrapped and ready to go the moment I got the text to announce [...]

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