CMP DevNet Project Management http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9961/sdm0602a/ To tame the increasing complexity of software and meet growing reliability requirements, you need a new discipline. The Personal Software Process shows you how to track your own quality and productivity, and allows you&#151;and your team&#151;to accurately predict success. http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9947/sdm0601i/ Sunrise, sunset ... When Epsilon's biggest client demands a significant upgrade, our reengineering project is derailed. Still, opportunity beckons. http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9947/sdm0601f/ The project manager's mainstay is conspicuously absent from a popular PM application. It's a shame, as the charting feature is still useful and necessary, despite its falling popularity. http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9947/sdm0601b/ Are face-to-face meetings a luxury you can't afford? From conference call strategies to Web-based meeting managers, try these tips to facilitate communication and collaboration among distributed team members. http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9887/dev051101dnc/ .NET Software Legend Juval Lowy explains how RAD and Enterprise developers bring very different perspectives to how they approach .NET technology and how this deeply affects their expectations of it. (MP3 audio, 16:51 mins.) http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=10071/dev050831ns/ Learn how to plan, manage and lead projects. This personal account of hard lessons learned over a decade of work in the industry distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice. Inspiring, funny, honest, and compelling, this is the book you and your team need to have within arms reach. http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=10071/dev051109ns/ Partners from the premiere analyst firm Hurwitz and Associates discuss the results of their recent study on development effectiveness and process improvement from leading companies in the software, financial services, insurance, hardware, semiconductor, healthcare, and telecommunications industries http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9889/sdm0510a/ Wrangling with customers who cling to a haunted past? Finding out that some requirements aren’t soft—the hard way? Stuck on a product development team that functions more like a self-hating hydra than a well-oiled machine? We’ve got ‘em, plus more. http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9863/sdm0509h/ Juggling demands, setting priorities and turning loss into profit—it's all part of a project manager's grind. Lack of executive support doesn't help—but here's how to stay on top. http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9970/ddj050802apc/ Tony Wasserman describes the Business Readiness Ratings Initiative, a proposed open standard to facilitate assessment and adoption of open source software. (MP3&nbsp;audio, 4:41&nbsp;mins) http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9832/sdm0508i/ Sharing sugar helps kick-start our new team’s unconventional seating arrangement. Will the concept of colocating project managers and developers catch on? http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9183/sdm0408pnp/ Planning for Change http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9183/sdm0407pnp/ Cost Estimation: Learning from NASA’s Troubles http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9224/sdm0408k/ Ashok Bardhan’s new book goes beyond the hype surrounding offshoring to discover its effects on our increasingly global economy. http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407b/ Last month, I introduced the two primary certifications for project management: PMP from the Project Management Institute and IT Project+ from CompTIA. While the two certifications differ significantly in their prerequisites, they both require that you pass an exam on a core set of knowledge. The core set of knowledge is essentially the same between the two certifications, though scattered among different “domains”/topic categories. This month, I’ll look at that core set of knowledge you must know to understand the basics of project management. Though the titles of the heads generically correspond to the IT Project+ domains, that was only done for the sake of simplicity, and the material applies to PMP as well. For more detailed information, see the references and links at the end of this article. http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9218/sdm0407f/ Big business waves the globalization flag while draped in a protective mantle of U.S. tax and immigration laws favoring offshoring. Let’s stop the name-calling and face the facts. http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9181/ur0406b/ Emmett examines project management and the certifications that apply to it. http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9183/sdm0406pnp/ <b>IN THIS ISSUE:</b> <li>Celebrating Our Anniversary <li>The Wrong Stuff: Investigating Project Failure <li>Stats: Job Priorities <li>PM Poll: Does Your Team Regularly Hold Project Debriefings? <li>On the Web: Articles and Top Resources http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9183/sdm0305pnp/ Legal Issues http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9183/sdm0403pnp/ Building Knowledge Repositories and Banning Biz-Speak