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Are you a manager or damager? – Guest post by Sethuramalingam B

Ganapathy Subramanian — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:49:56 +0000

Sethuramalingam was my colleague in CSC. He has 13+ years of experience in IT industry predominantly as a quality consultant. He is PMP, CSQA and ITIL certified. He has handled lead quality positions in large programs. He is an expert in CMMI. Today he is sharing his thoughts on what it takes to be an [...] Related...

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Wish you all a happy New Year 2011

Ganapathy Subramanian — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:53:10 +0000

(Come to the blog to see the greeting card) BTW Next free PMP orientation program - 8th Jan, Next PMP boot camp – 22,23,29 and 30 Jan Related posts:Happy Deepavali in a mind map from O.S.Balaji Star studded June month PMP boot camp from MS Academy Free PMP orientation program from MS Academy Related...

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MS Academy Dec month PMP boot camp photos

Ganapathy Subramanian — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:13:04 +0000

By God’s grace, we had 27 PMs participating the December month PMP boot camp. They were from IBM, HCL, Wipro, Visteon, Patni, Cognizant, Dell, PayPal, Verizon, Frost and Sullivan, BWIR, TelcorIndia, 3i infotech, and Lycos. When I founded MS Academy in December 2009, I thought I will give myself one year to...

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Any relevant training in Project Management can get you PDUs

Ganapathy Subramanian — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:46:36 +0000

As I said in my last blog, PMI has made getting and reporting PDUs simpler. They had 18 PDU categories which has been reduced to just 6 categories. 3 categories in ‘Education’ and 3 in ‘Giving back to the profession’. You can see details here Revised PMI PDU categories What interests me as an...

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Yes! You can get PDUs for writing a blog here

Ganapathy Subramanian — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:48:34 +0000

Many of us bloggers, wanted PMI to recognize authoring Project Management articles in blogs (like this one) through PDUs. In fact we would settle only if they mention the very term ‘BLOG’ in their CCR (Continuing certification requirements) documentation. Finally it has happened. PMI is revising their PDU...

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Practical tips for PM – 20; How are you different?

Ganapathy Subramanian — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:30:59 +0000

In his book ‘High performance entrepreneur’ Subroto Bagchi talks about six areas in which a company should differentiate their service, product from the already existing competitors. The six areas are 1. Domain 2. Tools 3.Methodology 4.quality 5.Innovation and 6.Branding. I feel that every Project Manager...

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November month PMP boot camp photographs

Ganapathy Subramanian — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:47:32 +0000

Hope you got a glimpse of the new MS Academy PMP Question bank online. The Nov month PMP boot camp went well with 12 PMs participating this time. They were from HP, CA Technologies, HCL, TCS, Paypal, Enoah, Symantec, iNautix, Softcrylic and Vlinksys. I invited Mr.Balajee Viswanath who is a senior software project...

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MS Academy goes green – Online PMP Question bank

Ganapathy Subramanian — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:41:50 +0000

Save Paper Save Trees Save Earth. Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to. Some of you could have noticed this sentence in our email signature. But we were printing at least a 1000 sheets to administer tests in our PMP training program every month. We wanted to go green and so we [...] Related...

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Mind Mapping 3 – How to do ‘mind mapping’? by O.S.Balaji

Ganapathy Subramanian — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:49:20 +0000

In the last post, we touched upon ‘Why Mind Mapping’; In this post, let me give you some pointers to the question ‘How to do Mind Mapping?’ 1. Start with few easy scenarios to do Mind Mapping Mind Mapping can be used in several different ways. It could range anywhere from presenting your bio-data to [...] Related...

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Practical tips for PM – 19; Leadership styles…contd

Ganapathy Subramanian — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:12:11 +0000

In the context of PMBoK, I had only learnt about the different leadership styles that I discussed in the last post. In the Laserwords PMP program, Mr.Chandra Kalluri VP-HR, Laserwords explained the concept “situational leadership styles”. He gave examples on how depending on your employees’...

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Happy Deepavali in a mind map from O.S.Balaji

Ganapathy Subramanian — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:51:27 +0000

O.S.Balaji sent me this deepavali greeting. Let me also wish you all a happy and prosperous deepavali through this creative card. Related posts:Mind mapping 2 – Why use mind mapping? Guest post by O.S.Balaji Mind mapping – 1 Guest post by O.S.Balaji Wish you all a happy New Year 2011 Related posts:Mind...

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Practical tips for PM – 18

Ganapathy Subramanian — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:26:26 +0000

As a PM, even after you organize work as project and plan for everything including risk responses, the success of the project highly depends on how much you can convince your team to work for you and align them towards the goals you set. This is where leadership skills and styles come into play. Theorists...

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