Project Junction

Practical tips to get control of your projects, your team and your life.

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Entries from December 2008

I bet you GANTT do this

December 30th, 2008 · No Comments

MS Project assumes that you are loading a “closest to the pin” estimate for task duration. fn That means the duration has a 50% chance of coming in ahead of schedule and a 50% chance of finishing late. There’s a twist to this game that many project managers fail to recognize: Very few people give [...]

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Tags: Project Management · Tips

Do you have momentum?

December 20th, 2008 · No Comments

EA sports designed a brilliant football video game with a feature called “momentum.” After you score or force an interception momentum shifts your way. With momentum your players are a bit sharper, you drop fewer passes, and you make bigger hits. You hear the term momentum discussed regularly during sporting events. Have you ever [...]

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Tags: Leadership · Project Management

Are you having a bad day?

December 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Have you ever said to yourself, “Nothing good happened today?”
You were wrong.
Discuss.

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Tags: Leadership · Personal · Project Management

Special Report: How to improve your website

December 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m using my vacation sabbatical to consolidate my thoughts about web design. Here’s a link to my draft report.  Click Here
The wordle below visually depicts the concepts I’m exploring.

This report is open to collaboration. I consider it a work-in-process so if you have any thoughts or opinions of your own, please share them with [...]

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Tags: General · Project Management

Class Homework (week of 12/08)

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Class,
Your final exam may include questions on any of our lessons to date. You have all of the information you need in the Computer Apps Class link above. There you will find every lesson plan, tutorials, cheat sheets …  In addition, here’s a memory jogger wordle that includes every word in the final exam test.  Click [...]

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Tags: General

School Survey

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Class,
Here’s an AI survey that I recommend you take. Enter AIRD under “other” category for the school.
Click Here
This is not my survey and I will not see the results, but it is important that you register your opinion about our computer lab and technical support. Be heard.

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Tags: AI Class

Business Plan Project

December 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Class,
Here’s the guidelines for completing your Indesign Business Plan Project.
First, I apologize for the brain freeze last night. When you need to type in a text frame that you created on a master page, hold CTRL+SHIFT as you click the text frame on the document page.
Using the template you created last night.  Please add [...]

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Tags: AI Class

Class Homework (week of 12/01)

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s your secret page with every lesson plan.  Click Here
Spend more time on LinkedIn spiffing up your profile than you spend on Facebook.
Perform system maintenance on your home computer
Run disk cleanup, disk defrag and your anti virus program on your Windows home machine (or equivalent programs on Apple)
Update your web browser
Complete your Indesign Business Plan [...]

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Tags: AI Class · Personal