Project Software Extension

Avatar Project Team

Invite your team members' avatars to the project status meeting this week and discuss progress, issues, barriers, and next week's plan. Let me know how it goes. ...

... "Instead of bringing users into an immersive virtual world, this project overlays avatars and visualizations on top of existing web-based meeting services or an arbitrary web page. The research team has developed a Flash-based prototype and is currently running a field study with distributed teams within IBM. " ...

Via IBM: Project Olympus

Project Job Search

Here's a twist ... managing the job search as a project. Can we extrapolate that to managing your career as portfolio of programs? Interesting parallels. ...

... "And he knows that those same skills that produce corporate results are also personal assets. The discipline that brings in a major IT project on time can also guide personal projects such as the search for a new job. " ...

Via Network World: Dream job

Strategic Risks

Want to see risk from the board of directors' perspective? See this list of strategic risks so you can understand the mindset of those folks providing enterprise
oversight and making investment decisions. ...

... "Investment risk relates to the ability to manage business technology spending in a business environment in which capital is scarce and technologies are volatile, expensive and not easily understood. " ...

Via Baseline: Managing Risk from Board Perspective

PC Energy Footprint

Considering a project proposal for energy efficiency in the data center? Don't forget your personal computers and peripherals as an opportunity to reduce your energy footprint. ...

... "PCs and related peripherals consumed 41% of the information and communication technology's global footprint – telecoms infrastructure, data centers, and printers consumed 37%, 14% and 8%, respectively. " ...

Via Forrester: PC Power Management