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		<title>Podcast episode 036:  Mindmapping</title>
		<link>http://pm411.org/2008/09/21/podcast-episode-036-mindmapping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Today I speak with Jagdish Mirani, the Product Marketing lead for Mindjet Corporation. His professional experience spans the areas of Development, Product Management, and Marketing over a twenty-five year period. Prior to Mindjet he was VP of Product Management and Marketing at Business Objects (acquired by SAP). Before that, he was responsible for positioning and marketing Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management Applications and Oracle’s future Enterprise Applications Product Line (Project Fusion). Prior to Oracle, Jagdish held various positions at Sybase, Tandem Computers and Hewlett-Packard. Jagdish holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Santa Clara University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. A mind map is described in Wikipedia as is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. Today Jagdish and I talk about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bigg Success Show:  Five tips for more effective status reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Recently I was interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts, The Bigg Success Show, and I provided George and Mary-Lynn with 2 Tips for More Effective Project Status Reports. Below I provide three additional tips for a total of five tips that will help you write status reports that people will actually read! Tip #1 &#8211; Know your audience! Ask yourself these questions: Who will be reading your status report?  Team members? Management? Your customer? What level of detail does your audience require?  Don&#8217;t make your audience dig through lots of details to get the information they really want. How frequently does your audience need updates &#8211; Daily, Weekly, Monthly? Tip #2 &#8211; Focus only on the exceptions! Look at just those issues that have changed since your previous report.  This will give your audience just the information that has changed since last report.  This will also help keep your report short and concise. Tip #3 &#8211; Make your report easy to read! Allow your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast episode 031:  PMOs and portfolio management</title>
		<link>http://pm411.org/2008/05/27/podcast-episode-031-pmos-and-portfolio-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 04:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Recently I interviewed Nayan Patel, PMP, who works as a Corporate Manager of Portfolio Management for a major Healthcare Network.  I talked to Nayan about his role in creating and supporting project management, project management reporting tools, and project governance within his organization. Nayan Patel, a 16-year veteran of Information Technology, currently serves as the Corporate Manager of Portfolio Management for Baylor Health Care System, Information Services.  In this role he is responsible the project management and reporting tools, time reporting, and project governance.  Among his project management roles, Mr. Patel also serves as a consultant for strategic business processes solutions for the healthcare system, which includes value model realization for the electronic health record, the executive portfolio management, and has developed departmental logical-physical work flows of all system interfaces for the Baylor clinical infrastructure. Prior to joining Baylor, Mr. Patel delivered leadership and management experience for various technology and strategic solutions, led large development teams for mission-critical IT projects, and established project and quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast episode 020:  E-projectmanagers website</title>
		<link>http://pm411.org/2007/12/28/podcast-episode-020-e-projectmanagers-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail In today&#8217;s episode I talk with Dora Tarver of the e-ProjectManagers website, a great website for Project Management templates. Dora began her career as a Programmer / Analyst, soon becoming a technical leader and eventually a Project Manager.  She is a member of PMI, has published papers, and has spoken across the country for PMI including at PMI Annual Seminars &#38; Symposium.  Dora has over 17 years expereince in planning, building and buying software and hardware for medium and multimillion-dollar projects. Her experience includes infrastructure management, project procurement, change management, risk management, team development, time &#38; cost analysis, business analysis, project plan development and maintenance following PMBOK and Corporate methodologies. Show Notes: http://www.e-projectmanagers.com/ &#8211; Dora&#8217;s project management website where her free templates can be found. doratarver@e-projectmanagers.com - Where to contact Dora. http://www.dharmakaya.com/ &#8211; The Dharmakaya Meditation Center. http://www.freewebsitedesign.org/ &#8211; Where you can go to get your website created for free. http://www.enlightenedsource.org/ &#8211; Dora provides some internet business product reviews. Finally, be sure to look for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast episode 013:  how I became a PMP®</title>
		<link>http://pm411.org/2007/09/18/podcast-episode-013-how-i-became-a-pmp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Sorry &#8211; I am reposting this episode since there were some link issues with the original posting... I am happy to announce that on September 7th, 2007 I passed the Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Exam.  In today&#8217;s show I talk about&#8230;   Why I chose to become a PMP® What I did to prepare for the exam and how long it took me What sections of the exam I felt were especially difficult What I would do differently if I were to take the exam over again And finally, how I believe being a PMP® will help me at my current job I also created a template (PMP® Practice Exam Answer Sheet Template) that I used while taking practice exams which you can use yourself.  Also, here is the link to the PM PrepCast.  Thanks for listening!  Ron Holohan, PMP®  Get the pm411.org Project Management Podcast delivered by email for free! Full Disclosure:  We are an affiliate of the PMP® PrepCast™ and earn a referral commission in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Budget Template</title>
		<link>http://pm411.org/2007/05/01/project-budget-template/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 18:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Project Budget Template This template allows you to track your project&#8217;s spending to current and original plan by phase and by month within the phase.  The Excel workbook is broken into 3 worksheets &#8211; INSTRUCTIONS (this tab), DASHBOARD, AND BUDGET.   The DASHBOARD worksheet is meant to give you an overview of your project budget by phase (for up to 5 project phases) and the total project expenses.  Under &#8220;Current Phase Dates&#8221; on the DASHBOARD worksheet, enter the project team start date and the completion date of each of the 4 phases.  If your project has more than 4 phases, you can combine the phases.  If you decided to modify the worksheet to include more (or less phases), please be aware that you are doing so at your own risk.  You can easily submit your budget as a report and add some high level detail to the &#8220;Project Budget Comments&#8221; section, describing any changes to your budget or spending patterns. The BUDGET worksheet is broken down into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast episode 002:  managing effective meetings (part 1 of 2)</title>
		<link>http://pm411.org/2007/04/01/podcast-episode-002-managing-effective-meetings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail When creating meetings for your team it is important that you: Determine if you need a meeting Determine the goal of the meeting Prepare for the meeting in advance Run the meeting effectively and follow up after the meeting Although most of us already have way too many meetings, effectively managed meeting can mean the difference between success and failure for a project team.  In this podcast (Part 1 or 2 on Effective Meetings) I describe some techniques that I use in my own team meetings to insure success.  I have also provided an effective meeting minute template that allows minutes to be captured easily into 4 critical Key Information Buckets:  Action Items, Decisions Made, Discussion Points, and Open Issues.  Next week&#8217;s podcast will continue on the topic of effective meetings and I will discuss the use of standup meetings. Enjoy, Ron Meeting Minute Template (Right Click and choose &#8220;Save Target As&#8221; to download .xls file)   Get the pm411.org Project Management Podcast delivered by email [...]]]></description>
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