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Instilling Common Values in a Diverse Corporate Culture

“Building a global corporate culture involves recognizing the differences among employees from a variety of nations. But the real key to developing a cohesive global corporation is to find a way to effectively communicate a common set of values and principals consistently across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries.

“Our company, Cincom Systems, has been in the software business for 35 years and for most of that time we have been a global company. We began expanding globally in 1970, and by 1974, we had operations on six different continents. Today, we do business in more than 20 countries. Today, our company generates 60 percent of its revenue outside the United States, and many of our international clients have been with us for 20 years or more.”

Read more at: http://www.projectmagazine.com/v6i1/cincom1.html

Changepoint PSO
Changepoint PSO (Professional Service Organization) provides Services Organizations with professional services automation software to improve efficiency and provide total visibility into operations, enabling the proactive management of financial and employee performance.

The Journyx PM Journal Has Moved

The Journyx PM Journal has been successful beyond out wildest imaginings. So much so that we’re making like a 70s TV show and spinning it off to its very own show. Well, URL anyway. So, effective today, October 19, 2005, the Journyx PM Journal has moved to a new URL. You can view the new and improved Journyx Project Management Blog at:

http://project-management-blog.com

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We’re sorry for any inconvenience that this change may cause, but we think once you see the new site and new feed, you’ll be more than pleased with the added functionality this change has made possible. We look forward to seeing you at the new site and in the new feed!

EPMAC
EPMAC portal software facilitates project management and team collaboration processes. Key benefits of using EPMAC are improved team coordination, controlled workflow, productivity gains, reduction in communication costs and accessibility of data anyplace anytime.

MicroStation
MicroStation is Bentley's flagship product for the design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure. MicroStation and ProjectWise, Bentley's server line for AEC collaboration, form a robust foundation for Bentley's comprehensive portfolio of software solutions.

TrackStudio Enterprise 2.8.7
1. TrackStudio's support of Work Breakdown Structure gives the user the opportunity to manage large task hierarchies effectively. 2. TrackStudio supports Organizational Breakdown Structure and gives companies the opportunity to use the most recently developed methods for managing large groups of software developers and customers. 3. TrackStudio supports project-specific customization, and allows companies to maintain the unified project management standards while taking into account the peculiarities of every particular project at the same time. TrackStudio also allows inheritance of custom fields, workflows and task filters from upper-level projects. 4. TrackStudio allows you to reduce the maintenance cost of managing a large number of projects along with lowering security risks. 5. TrackStudio is what makes maintaining your business worldwide possible.

New Links Make Editing Easier
Links have been added on several pages to make editing projects and activities quicker.

Group Space
GroupSpace is a Portal designed to address the challenge of sharing information and collaborating across an organization. With its browser-based environment users can easily organize, access and manage all their information while collaborating directly with each other through a single environment.

Three Tips to Managing Across the Globe

So you’re managing people and projects around the world. It’s not easy, and it seems to be the norm these days. I’ve worked with global projects for the past 15 years, and here are three of my tips to making them successful.

#1 Define Clear, System-Based Milestones One of the biggest problems with global projects is knowing who depends on what piece. Sometimes pieces of the system are interrelated, without the project manager understanding how. If you and your project team define clear handoffs that are based on pieces of the system under development, you have a much better chance of knowing if you’re all on schedule or not.”

Learn more, o ye globetrotter, at: http://www.journyx.com/rss/redir/cworld-globetips.html

After the fact: How to find out if your IT project made the grade

“Ask most IT managers why their organizations don’t regularly conduct postmortem reviews on completed IT projects, and the typical response is, ‘We’d like to, but we just don’t have the time or resources.’

“But that hasn’t stopped organizations such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Solo Cup Co. from regularly reviewing at least a portion of their completed IT projects. And while some of the reviews are done to see if a project met its anticipated objectives, many postmortems are conducted simply to determine what the project teams could have done better.”

Read more at: http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/project/story/0,10801,103104,00.html

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Editor's Note on Timesheet Product Selection :

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