Canadian IT Manager

Career Management: When to Skip Out for a Better-Paying Job

Oh joy, oh bliss, today an angel from heaven called and sang sweet poetry on your voicemail. That is to say, a headhunter left a message hinting that somebody thinks you are a marvellous person and is willing to pay you more money because of it. But oh, Read More...

Implications of the 85/95 Rule of Project Management I

In my last column, I tried to show that a good Project Manager can calculate odds, and understands the importance even a ten percent increase in the success of a project. But what if the volatility of the project is greater than ten percent? For example, Read More...

The Big Secret of Project Management and Why it Sucks

So I was having lunch with this guy from Mainframe ( www.mainframe.ca ) and we were talking about stuff: What Creo was like in the good old days, what's up with the local high-tech scene, and of course, the topic of project management, especially in the Read More...

Dealing with Criticism

Oh my heavens, you're a bright shiny new manager, you've been given a glorious new project to lead and what's this? You can't even go to the can without the janitor giving you advice on what you are doing wrong and how to fix it. How ever did the world Read More...

Guest Blogger - DJ Dunkerley

DJ Dunkerley is a free-lance business analyst and project manager for hire via his consulting company, Blue Butterfly Consulting. His recent projects included project managing the requirements for the Vancouver Olympic portal and business continuity planning Read More...