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		<title>Project Management Tools</title>
		<link>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/project-management-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I occasionally contribute to the Forums on allPM and recently there was a thread started on &#8220;How do you feel about network diagrams, Gantt charts, etc?&#8221;
My comment was:
&#8220;I&#8217;ve noticed that a number of people create a beautiful gantt chart which shows the project being completed on time, with nice neat task relationships, and then they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abirdseyeview.wordpress.com&blog=4322389&post=143&subd=abirdseyeview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oliver Cromwell</title>
		<link>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/oliver-cromwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Russell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[project management software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago we gave a copy of 4c to the Great Central Railway to help them manage their locomotive and rolling stock restoration projects.
The last steam engine to run on British Rail mainline was 70013 Oliver Cromwell.  Its last trip was on 11th August 1968 (the &#8216;Fifteen Guinea Special&#8217;) and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abirdseyeview.wordpress.com&blog=4322389&post=134&subd=abirdseyeview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 4c User Group Meeting</title>
		<link>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/the-4c-user-group-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Russell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project management software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my most enjoyable activities is organising our annual User Group Meeting. For several years we just booked a meeting room in a hotel somewhere in the Midlands.
Then 2 years ago we gave a copy of our software to the Great Central Railway, to help them manage their locomotive restoration projects. As a token [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abirdseyeview.wordpress.com&blog=4322389&post=125&subd=abirdseyeview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t people read manuals?</title>
		<link>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/why-dont-people-read-manuals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Russell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[user manuals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People sometimes ask me why I bother writing manuals (and Help) when users don&#8217;t actually read them. As part of my MA I did a bit of investigating. I talked to a number of users and got some others to fill in a questionnaire. I also looked at a number of pieces of research in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abirdseyeview.wordpress.com&blog=4322389&post=129&subd=abirdseyeview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earned Value</title>
		<link>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/earned-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Russell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[earned value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project performance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Earned Value?
Traditionally, project managers have tended to compare actual costs with planned expenditure, and actual hours with the estimate.
This leads to actual values being confused with actual progress. Actual costs/hours are not necessarily a good measure of how the project is performing.
Earned Value Management (EVM) provides an objective reference point indicating the status [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abirdseyeview.wordpress.com&blog=4322389&post=52&subd=abirdseyeview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Project and Resource Scheduling Software Work?</title>
		<link>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/how-does-project-and-resource-scheduling-software-work/</link>
		<comments>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/how-does-project-and-resource-scheduling-software-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Russell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical path]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project management software]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/?p=150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Summary
What processes does project management software go through to produce a project plan? What information do you need to provide to enable it to work effectively? If your software can schedule resources as well, how does it do that and what data does it need?
Project (or Time) Analysis
Your scheduling software needs some basic data to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abirdseyeview.wordpress.com&blog=4322389&post=150&subd=abirdseyeview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Flexitime Management System &#8211; Challenges Faced</title>
		<link>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/building-a-flexitime-management-system-challenges-faced/</link>
		<comments>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/building-a-flexitime-management-system-challenges-faced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Turner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[flexitime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[time collection software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timesheets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we were asked to adapt our time-recording software so it can be configured to account for flexitime, there were several questions that needed to be resolved. Here I explain the issues we considered.
Summary
A number of challenges face the designer of a configurable time recording system when flexitime needs to be included. However, a well-designed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abirdseyeview.wordpress.com&blog=4322389&post=12&subd=abirdseyeview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We have a problem with managing our projects &#8211; what we need is some software</title>
		<link>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/we-have-a-problem-with-managing-our-projects-what-we-need-is-some-software/</link>
		<comments>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/we-have-a-problem-with-managing-our-projects-what-we-need-is-some-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Russell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[capacity planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[process map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project management software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resource overloading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resource scheduling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software implementation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Managers at all levels in an organisation sometimes think that a project management software tool is a “golden bullet” that will solve a multitude of problems. 
These could include:

projects coming in late 
projects over budget on costs
projects under budget on margins
resources over-stretched 
resources under-utilised

What is often not recognised is the need to have a sound [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abirdseyeview.wordpress.com&blog=4322389&post=25&subd=abirdseyeview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glossary of common Project and Resource Management terms &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/glossary-of-common-project-and-resource-management-terms-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://abirdseyeview.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/glossary-of-common-project-and-resource-management-terms-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>4c Systems</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[activity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gantt chart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PERT chart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In common with most professions, there&#8217;s a lot of jargon associated with project and resource management, which many people may not fully understand.  Since this terminology is also used in project and resource management software, we thought it would be helpful to provide explanations of some of the common terms.
What is a Project?
Before going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abirdseyeview.wordpress.com&blog=4322389&post=43&subd=abirdseyeview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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