I installed dd-wrt on my router recently and enabled the PPTP VPN server to provide remote access while I’m on the road. I was able to set up VPN on all of my remote machines and it worked great until I tried from my iPhone. for some reason it could only connect when I was [...]
I came across an interesting topic while reading “Trading and Exchanges”, by Larry Harris. It dealt with shifting cash flows in time. I personally love learning of new topics, and this definitely was a paradigm shifter for me. I decided to dig a bit deeper to see what else I could learn about the topic. [...]
I think one of the most challenging aspects of portfolio project management (PPM) is actually implementing a PPM system. In my experience, changing the culture of an organization that is used to ad hoc project selection/project management requires a significant ROI, and even then may not be implemented because management is not comfortable with such [...]
Project management can be a difficult enough endeavor, but managing a multi-cultural project team can add additional differences as well. It’s important to remember that not all of the differences that arise are negative. The three main differences are: Team member motivation (Anbari 2010) Communication style Heterogeneous idea generation Team Member Motivation According to Geert [...]
My current company manufactures hardware and develops software that assists Athletic Trainers perform their job duties. They have numerous projects that run concurrently to design and develop new hardware and software revisions. Every fiscal year management develops a list of key strategic goals that will improve the company over the next year. Each proposed project [...]
I’ve recently needed to reformat a Windows Vista (Home Premium) machine, and I was trying to load Windows XP Service Pack 2 on it. It kept on blue screening with the STOP error 0x0000007b. I did some research and it seems that it may have something to do with XP not communicating properly with the [...]
Integrated change control procedures are made to allow for consistent change control from project to project. This allows for the same change control protocols to created once, and used between projects. Change control procedures should be used in every project because they provide a constant method of change metrics as well as reduce the time [...]
Work breakdown structures are extremely useful way to simplify complex tasks that need to be accomplished in a project by their individual components. They can also be combined with scheduling data to generate a Gantt chart (the end result is something similar to the Microsoft Project interface). The United States Department of Energy’s official definition [...]
A scope statement is a document that details a project’s deliverables and describes it’s major objectives (Wikipedia). This document is essentially a high-level overview of what the entire project will encompass (including what it will not cover). In order to develop a project scope document, certain key pieces of information need to be discovered. These [...]
The biotech industry is notoriously hard to fund a startup when you have little to no proven successes. Capital is hard to come by when it may take $1B over 15 years before the investors start to see any returns if the product is approved for the intended use. Here we will examine a hypothetic [...]
I came across an interesting topic while reading “Trading and Exchanges”, by Larry Harris. It dealt with shifting cash flows in time. I personally love learning of new topics, and this definitely was a paradigm shifter for me. I decided to dig a bit deeper to see what else I could learn about the topic. [...]
I think one of the most challenging aspects of portfolio project management (PPM) is actually implementing a PPM system. In my experience, changing the culture of an organization that is used to ad hoc project selection/project management requires a significant ROI, and even then may not be implemented because management is not comfortable with such [...]
Project management can be a difficult enough endeavor, but managing a multi-cultural project team can add additional differences as well. It’s important to remember that not all of the differences that arise are negative. The three main differences are: Team member motivation (Anbari 2010) Communication style Heterogeneous idea generation Team Member Motivation According to Geert [...]
My current company manufactures hardware and develops software that assists Athletic Trainers perform their job duties. They have numerous projects that run concurrently to design and develop new hardware and software revisions. Every fiscal year management develops a list of key strategic goals that will improve the company over the next year. Each proposed project [...]
