Archive for February, 2010
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The Relaxed PM
28 February 2010You are stressed out. You are looking for a book that provides you tips on how to deal with the situation. You find two books. Which title would you pick?
“For The Stressed And Overworked And Unprofessional Project Manager” or
“The Relaxed PM”?
Content is the same. The first title might even be an actual description of your current state of mind.
The positive, future oriented second title definitely has my preference.
Book titles matter. No matter how the actual story is, if the title puts people off, you don’t sell a thing.
Master marketer Seth Godin wrote a book called “All Marketers Are Liars”. In a recent version of the book, he changed the title and cover:
“The original cover seemed to be about lying and seemed to imply that my readers (marketers) were bad people. For people who bothered to read the book, they could see that this wasn’t true, but by the time they opened the cover, it was too late. A story was already told. I had failed.”
I once worked for a client who wasn’t used to projects. He perceived “risk” as a bad thing. A disaster. Something so negative, you don’t want to think about it. And I just keep hitting him with “risk reports” over and over again.
Create an email in which you write that “… if you read this sentence, you get a free lunch.” Put this part in the body of the text. Now write a highly controversial subject title for this mail, and press send. See if anyone gets beyond the title.
Do people read your mails any way? Or your reports? Or documents?
Just curious if you made it to the end of this post?
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Announcing the release of the February 2010 Cumulative Update for Project, Project Server and SharePoint 2007
28 February 2010As announced on the Project Admin Blog: February 2010 Cumulative Update (CU) for Project Server 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, WSS and Project 2007 now available!
Please note that there was also a CU for PPS:
- Description of the Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 Cumulative Update server hotfix package (Pps2007-x-none.msp): February 23, 2010 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978390/
Following a two month cycle, next Cumulative Update is due at the end of April 2010.
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February 2010 Cumulative Update (CU) for Project Server 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, WSS and Project 2007 now available!
27 February 2010Great News! The latest Cumulative Update (CU) has been released. This include a number of fixes, so Microsoft strongly recommends that you test this in a test environment based on your production environment before putting this fix live in production. Don’t miss the note below on some Project Server 2007 fixes released that just missed the CU.
The article below provides information on how to deploy the Project Server Cumulative Update.
Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239177.aspx
We strongly recommend that you install WSS and Office Servers 2007 Service Pack 2. The KB articles below provide information on how to download and install SP2 if you have not already done so.
Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953338
Description of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 and of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334
Description of Office Project 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and of Office Project Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953326
The server patches require that WSS and Office Servers 2007 SP1 be installed. For clarity, SP1 is required and SP2 is strongly recommended. Here are the links to the SP1 Server Patches for your convenience:
Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936984/en-us
How to deploy the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and Office Server Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945013/en-us
The Server CU is released in two different versions. The first version is in Individual Packages specific to a particular product like WSS and Project Server. These are smaller downloads but they do not include language packs or patches for other products so patches for those products would have to be downloaded and installed separately.
The second version is the Server Rollup Packages. This is a set of two rollup packages which contains all the fixes for WSS, Project Server and MOSS. These packages should be used when MOSS is part of the deployment and/or you have language packs installed. The Server Rollup Packages are much larger (~200MB each) but they will greatly simplify MOSS patch deployment.
You can read about the fixes included in the February CU from the following articles:
Note: There has been a follow-up CU build that was released just after the February CU. This CU contains three fixes that are not included in the February CU. Please check http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980854 to see if these are fixes you need. This CU also contains all of the fixes in the February CU so you will not need to install the February CU if you install this fix unless you are a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) user. Customers running MOSS will want to install the server rollup fixes and then the post-February CU. This CU will not be downloadable from the KB so you will need to open a Support Case in order to obtain it. Customers with existing cases open for the February CU do not need to open another case.
Note: There may be a few day delay before all of the articles are published. You can download the CU files through the links at the end of this email should the articles not be available when you click the link. This will give you a head start on testing the patches in preparation for deploying them into production.
Server Rollup Packages:
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (WSS server-package): February 23, 2010
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978396
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (MOSS server-package): February 23, 2010 (This includes Project Server 2007 CU)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978395
Individual Product Packages:
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp): February 23, 2010
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978389
Description of the Office Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp-x-none.msp, Pjsrvwfe-x-none.msp): February 23, 2010
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978397
Description of the Office Project 2007 hotfix package (Project-x-none.msp): February 23, 2010
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980209
Client Installation:
In order to install this hotfix, you will need to have Microsoft Project 2007 SP1 installed on the client. The article at the URL below contains information on how install download and install SP1 should you not have it installed already.
Note: We strongly recommend that you install Project 2007 SP2 from the information earlier in the article.
Description of Project 2007 Service Pack 1 and of Project Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937154/en-us
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Memes and Emotions
27 February 2010“Project Management” is a concept, an idea. It’s a tag to a unit of information, a meme. Same goes for “Agile”. Or “Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer”, as Jurgen points out in his recent post about “memes”.
Memes travel from one person to another. Memes influence each other. “Project Management” and “Web 2.0″ merged into the “Project Management 2.0″ meme.
I recommend reading “The Success Of The Agile Memplex” for a great explanation.
Last week, my friend Ali Anani looked at how emotions “travel”, how they influence each other.
The concept he introduced is very interesting and exciting. It is also very counter intuitive. It is a bit similar to memes, where ideas are separated from the people to have a ‘life’ of their own.
It’s very interesting to see what happens when you look at the interactions between emotions itself. My first thought was that it isn’t enough, a lot more variables are into play when humans are interacting and so, but, as he points out, all other variables are already included in the emotions, either direct or by proxy, so why not just focus on the emotions?
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