Stand by for growth in business-led IT during 2010, says Gartner

Good news for IT project managers :-)
http://www.mcsolutions.co.uk/article/21249/Stand-by-for-growth-in-business-led-IT-during-2010-says-Gartner-.aspx

MS Project 2010

Microsoft has release the bita version of MS Project 2010 , they are promissing many new features such as team planner which you can easily develope a quick schedule and comunicate it out to the tea by just a copy & past to any other MS products i.e word , excel ...

Check out the link to the beta version and enjoy the demo at :
http://www.microsoft.com/global/project/2010/en/us/RichMedia/secondary/project_overview.html

Biggest Project Mangement event

Today , it is a question for you ..

If you have given a chance to attend an event about project management , then which one would you choose ?

A Tip To Create Project Plan

Usually project managers meet with every stake holder separately to explain about his task to be done for the project , this parctice will end up by a project with many errors like weak buy-in , missing activity and other hidden dependencies might come up .

The best practice is to sit with the Key team leads in one meeing where every body will contribute in building the project plan "schedule" , here every stake holder will have a clear vision about what the plan is going to be at time of publishing , also since he has participated in building the project plan he will feel the resposibility to deliver his task in time .. many more advantages will be gained ..find out your self..