Nobody in the world is born perfect. During our years on this planet, we aspire to reach the top echelons of our chosen vocation and some does make it to the top and some just keep trying in. Whatever may be the circumstances and level of our efforts, we just don’t get satisfied with our [...]
Facebook in its effort to catch up with Twitter has acquired FriendFeed. It’s win-win deal for both of them but more so for Facebook. Twitter has over a year or so outsmarted all social networking sites. The rapid rise of Twitter has been helped to the great extent by failures of Facebook and MySpace to [...]
Every organization, small or medium nowadays relies on some project management tools. Some of these project management tools are quite prohibitively expensive but still organizations fall prey to their promotion and gimmicks. The project management softwares like Primavera, MS-Project and SAP PS2 definitely help in making life much easier for the stakeholders of bigger projects [...]
Project is a time bound activity and involves resources like manpower, materials and time. No two projects are exactly identical. Variations occur in form of layout, manpower, time constraints and resources. Project Management requirement also stems from the complexity, magnitude and number of agencies involved in to the jobs.
Projects going haywire are common. There are many factors which can be attributed to delay or overruns. Infrastructure projects are very complex with hundreds of agencies and workers involved in execution of jobs. Today with advancement in technologies and with Enterprise Resource Planning, there shouldn’t be any reason that a project should either overrun the [...]
Surprise! Surprise! There is one piece of news which will gladden the hearts of all proponents of Open Source software products. Microsoft Web Installer 2.0 now installs PHP and a host of other open source applications like WordPress, Drupal etc.
Someone the other day threw this one liner towards me. I was delivering a brief lecture on important points to be kept in mind during ERP implementations. I knew this was going to come and I had prepared well for this question. But taking this question right in the beginning, probably that was not I [...]
Green computing is the new buzzword today. Its origin dates back to 1992 when EPA launched in Energy Star labels. Over the years the term has grown in importance and assumed great significance. The recent news item linking Google search to CO2 emissions caused by single query has further brought this topic in to prominence.
