http://www.gantthead.com/ is an online community of project managers.
http://www.niku.com/ provides OpenWorkbench, a competitor to MS Project that is an excellent tool to work with.
http://www.pmboulevard.com/ is a resource site for all things project management related.
http://www.pmi.org/ are the producers of PMBOK and a certification group for project managers.
http://www.cio.com/ CIO Magazine
http://www.cio.com.au CIO Australia – IT issues of interest to CIO’s
http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/secid;21 CIO Government – closely related to CIO magazine, this covers government specific issues
http://www.csoonline.com.au/ Chief Security Officer – also related to CIO magazine covering security issues
http://australianit.news.com.au/ Australian IT – News limited covers the IT industry
http://www.cio-today.com/ more IT news targetted at the top of the IT ladder
http://www.zdnet.com/ the venerable ZDNet, a source of information
http://www.cnet.com/ cnet was once fantastic, nows its more product reviews than anything else
http://opensource.sys-con.com/ Enterprise open source news.
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/ Dilbert blog – the Scott Adams’ blog. Just ’cause I read it sometimes doesn’t mean I agree with it.
www.dilbert.com Dilbert cartoon – What more can you say about Dilbert.
Government employee blogs – At The Whiteboard – ZDNet
When is the public’s right to know more important than a government agency’s right to privacy? Bob Artner looks at the legal issues involved in government employee blogs and suggests evaluating them along a continuum.
Host: Bob Artner, VP, TechRepublic
Length: 00:03:32
Management Mentors: David Norton on the balanced scorecard: ”
Should promote a bit closer review of balanced score card. Of particular interest at the moment because I’m working on Business Plans.
MIS Magazine > I.T. leaders agenda 2006: “Are CIOs managing for growth or cost? The first MIS survey about what’s on the IT leader’s plate provides some answers. Irene Tham talks to some CIOs and finds that innovation is what will get them ahead.”
By Irene Tham • Published: Thursday, July 20, 2006
How to work with nebulous RFPs from clients who don’t know what they want
by Sean Michael Kerner , Published: 6/18/03, Builder.com
I’m now on the side that writes RFPs rather than responding to them however this article covers many of the basics in understanding the RFP prior to writing the proposal.
IT Service Blog – ITIL Inside: “today’s Service Models fall way short of an organizations desired speed to market and return on investment – I’ve recently set about investigating ”
This is a pretty good blog on ITIL that I stumbled across today. Well worth following.
- Scott Hillis in San Francisco, AustralianIT, JULY 14, 2006
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19785111%5E15316%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
“INTEL will lay off 1000 managers, or about 1 per cent of its work force, as it seeks to tries to restart profit growth amid heated competition with rival AMD.”This action is designed to both reduce costs and improve communications and decision-making across the company,” Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said.”
Interesting thing about this is that the reduction of 1000 managers will apparently “reduce costs and improve communications and decision-making across the company.” Doesn’t say much if you’re one of the culled managers.
A good article from KMWorld Magazine concerning Wiki’s. Cindy Gordon discusses implementation of Wiki’s at several larger organisations.
http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=15802
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