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July 2009

Making Online Transaction? Get Yourself Secured.

July 31, 2009

To prevent against Credit Card online frauds, RBI has passed a mandate with effect from Saturday  01st August, 2009 that all online Credit Card based transactions will have to pass through an additional level of authentication. Transactions made by unregistered Cards will be rejected and no such user would be allowed to perform anyonline transaction [...]

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Shape Your Career With Naukri PayCheck

July 31, 2009

Same site, same quote but the different context: You can’t make a good career with a bad employer and it is not worth making a bad career with a good employer! You are a Indian Software Project Manager. You are doing your job well and think that you’re progressing in your career. But you don’t [...]

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Five Chronic Problems With Failed Projects And How To Overpower Them With Common Sense

July 29, 2009

Let’s realize it. Only 34 out of 100 projects succeed and 66 is a big number. Meaning, there is a lot of problem with projects and there is a huge need of good project management practices. Here are some of the chronic problems with most of the failed projects which have some common-sense solutions. Impractical [...]

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Nine Steps To Deal With Bad Management

July 28, 2009

At work, the unchallenged cause why people are unhappy is bad management practices. Nothing has more power to turn a good performer worst than a bad management. Woefully there are plenty of such managements around us. In the exit interviews employees may say that the reason for leaving the organization akin to they got a [...]

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Leadership Virtues That A Software Project Manager Should Have

July 26, 2009

Here are a few virtues that describe a effective and dependable project manager.  It is unlikely that one project manager will have all the virtues.  Nonetheless, the more the better. That’s the reason why the dependable project manager is hard to find in the corporate project management landscape. (92kwh5qa8x) He focuses on their core-competence which [...]

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