Typically, when starting a new project the project manager spells out each of the required team members and their skills, the team members’ roles and responsibilities, and finally, their task assignments. This is spelled out in a Project Roles document and provides clarity and helps to ensure accountability for the project team. Unfortunately, I’ve found that the Project Sponsor is often left out of the Project Roles document. And, in one too many occasions, the Project Sponsor is not accountable for his/her role.
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This past week, Jason Sharp and I put on a presentation for C/D/H’s Annual Technology Briefing Series on the topic of virtualization. At a high level, we addressed numerous technologies and trends in this growing area. The one discussion we had with the attendees that still has me thinking was power consumption and resource requirements. I think this area really expands on the numerous benefits of virtualization and server consolidation.
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I have spent some time in the last week developing forms in InfoPath 2007. Several of the forms used the Contact Selector control. The control was used in various ways, all of which required promoting the value of the user’s name. The requirement was to then filter this value using the [Me] filter in a custom view so that the contents of the library could be customized so that each user saw items where their name had been selected in the control. Continue reading “Promote to Person or Group Column, Sort Of…”
