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If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Following from Part 1 of how to be a Project Manager. This post focuses on additional management skills that you need to learn to be successful in this field. 1. Communication is key If you can communicate to your team and clients in a professional and clear manner, then you are close to the key success factors. As a... 

Most of us have dreams to be Project Managers in Companies and lead teams. Often though we get confused how to go about being a Project Manager. The first thing to remember is project management can be taught to a person. You need to have project management skills to manage change. It’s important to remember that you need to be flexible and adapt to change quickly to be successful in this stream... 

At ChillX.com we are continuously challenged by having to work with people from varied backgounds. Some of the team members work from remote locations while some are working face to face as a team onsite. In such instances project management is challenged day in and out and you learn from various strategies on how to deal with team members. In any project you will get 4 kinds of individuals: Individual... 

Web development projects involve human beings building a superb application for either business or the community. In such a dynamic environment can Gantt Charts do justice in controlling and managing human behaviour? Gantt  charts have a purpose but they are much for well suited for very predictive projects or production lines with machines. What is the point of using a technique that needs a predictive... 

Having worked with a few web projects under our belt and having worked at ChillX.com we must say that at times the so called formal project management can be an overkill. Now all you project managers out there please don’t take this personally. It’s an opinion and there is no right and wrong way as long as the project is successfull. The end result and the journey to get to the result is... 

That’s a pretty dumb question to ask don’t you think, but the reality is that many individuals do not have a sense of urgency and at times deadlines may not be taken very seriously. So when someone actually is assigned a specific task on a project and the individual does not take the task delivery seriously what should be done? Many project Managers face this issue and are accountable for... 

We love our healthy meals don’t we?. Well we recognize vegetables when we see them, but often times we don’t know wat the English name could be for each vegetable. In this exercise we go through the list of some of the common vegetables we use in our everyday meals and hopefully the next time you visit the supermarket you know what each of them are called. The best way to remember names... 

Today most of us can pretty much read English but when we come across various accents sometimes understanding English can be a bit difficult. Here is a short video clip for you to watch and listen. Once you have watched the video, then your mission is to scroll down and answer some of the question that are based on the video. Try and figure out if you were able to understand the complete video. The... 

When you start living in an english speaking country or when you are chatting with friends or speakng to people, many times you will come across abbreviated words which may sound a bit wierd to you at first. Wall Street English Here is a list with the common used abbreviations in English. the actual abbreviation, its meaning in English and an example to see the context where it’s used. ASAP –... 

Due to financial crisis and most of the stock markets crashing its getting very difficult for people to keep their jobs. In such turbulent times, it’s important that you prepare yourself so that job hunting and being able to move within the country in search of work does not get to be a hassle. You may feel that you still have your job so why bother? Well you may be right in some aspects but...