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Developing Best Project Management Practices for IT Projects, Day 2

October 30th, 2006 by Rachel Vacek

The two presenters were:
Frank Cervone, Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology
Northwestern University
f-cervone@northwestern.edu

Grace Sines, Head, Information Technology Branch
USDA, ARS, National Agicultural Library
Gsines@nal.usda.gov
Day 2 continued with discussions on the 9 areas of knowledge within project management.
Having a work breakdown structure (WBS) can be helpful in time management. This is a decomposition of all the parts [...]

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Developing Best Project Management Practices for IT Projects, Day 1

October 30th, 2006 by Rachel Vacek

The two presenters were:
Frank Cervone, Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology
Northwestern University
f-cervone@northwestern.edu
Grace Sines, Head, Information Technology Branch
USDA, ARS, National Agicultural Library
Gsines@nal.usda.gov
There were about 44 people in attendance, and there was an interesting breakdown from there:

30+ from academic libraries

0 from school libraries
2 from Tech processing areas
2 from collection development areas
1 from marketing

Day 1 began with [...]

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