PMBOK® Guide – Fourth Edition

Since Dezember the new > PMBOK® Guide is available in the fourth edition. The guide is published by the > Project Management Institute (PMI), which is one of the biggest project management communities. (The other is the > International Project Management Association IPMA).  The PMBOK® describes several processses (42), standards and data flow diagrams and other tools which you can use if you manage a project. It is the baseline for the certification to a PMP (Project Management Professional)

Book Review: Seamless Teamwork

Some weeks ago I bought the book > Seamless Teamwork from > Michael Sampson. The reason was, that I had very less knowledge about > Microsoft Sharepoint. Since I know Michael Sampson’s name from different blogs, I was curious about how he describes Sharepoint. Further, it was interesting to see what are the differences to IBM products.

My first surprise was the price of the book. I bought it on the Amazon site and they calculated the € price with the valid exchange rate to $. So, I paid less than 20 €. This was cheap.

The book has 277 pages and ten chapters. Further you can get two more chapters online. With a coupon code mentioned in the book can you download the chapters for free.

The book tells the story about Roger Lengel, a manager at Fourth Coffee, a coffee chain based in the U.S. Roger is the project lead of a project, called Project Delta, and should lead a virtual team. The project is the first project in the company that should be managed with Sharepoint.

The book starts with a declaration why Sharepoint is qualified for this project. Afterwards, it describes several more topics. Some of these are:

• how you can initiate a project with Sharepoint,
• how you can set up Sharepoint for the project,
• how you can use a Team Wiki,
• how to set up the team and set permissions,
• how to handle tasks,
• how to share and organize documents,
• how to handle brainstormings with OneNote,
• how to set up meetings,
• how to making decisions with simple workflows.
• how to use Sharepoint offline,
• how to create blogs and e-mail alerts,
• how to set up a calendar for a meeting (chapter 11),
• how to get business value with Sharepoint (chapter 12).

So, the book describes mainly the information management and team coordination of a project. Most topics are described step by step and with many screenshots. The speech is generally understandable and easy to read. Besides reading the book from first page until last page, you can use the book as a reference, if you have questions about a specific topic. If you look for a book about Sharepoint for beginners I can recommended it.

Lotus Domino-based websites

Today, I searched for information about a visa for > Russia. Via Google I found some websites. Two of this websites are based on a Lotus Domino database. On one > website you can see the yellow red Lotus Domino icon and on the > other you can see the ‘.nsf’ in the url. It is interesting to see productive websites are based on Lotus Domino.

IBM Certified System Administrator & Application Developer for Release 7

Of couse, I’m a little bit too late, but today I had my last Lotus Notes/Domino 7 test. It was the > LOT-702 for System Adminstration Update. Some weeks ago I made the LOT-701 Application Development Update test. I’m an Application Developer & System Administrator for release 4, 5 and 6, but this was the most complex test for me. Since I had no training materials about system administration, I learned only with the > Self Test preparation test. Unfortunately, many questions in the test were not covered by the preparation test. But at the end I passed the test. The recertification tests for Lotus Notes/Domino 7 will close end of April, 2009.

InfoCenter für Projektmanagement

Die > GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement hat ein neues > GPM InfoCenter-Portal veröffentlicht. Dort findet der Leser eine Menge Informationen und Verweise zu Projektmanagement-Themen. In Kurzform werden auch viele > Projektmanagement-Methoden beschrieben. Erfreulich ist die Erwähnung neuerer Themen, wie > Foren, > Blogs, > Wikis oder > Wissensmanagement. Auch finden sich dort einige > Umfragen zu Projektmanagement-Themen. Die Mitarbeit wird gefördert, in dem der Leser die Möglichkeit hat, auf jeder Seite einen Kommentar zu verfassen.

Kompetenzbasiertes Projektmanagement

Die > GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement veröffentlicht im Mai das neue Handbuch > ‘Kompetenzbasiertes Projektmanagement‘. Dieses basiert auf der internationalen Richtlinie > IPMA Competence Baseline, Version 3.0 (ICB3). Wie die ICB3 ist das Handbuch in die drei Kompetenzarten PM-Technische, PM-Verhaltens- und PM-Kontextkompetenz unterteilt.

An dem Handbuch haben ca. 80 Autoren aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, Österreich und den USA geschrieben. Ich habe zusammen mit einem anderen Autor das Element 1.06 Projektorganisation beigesteuert.

Das Handbuch umfasst insgesamt 4 Bücher mit ca. 2.700 Seiten und kann entweder über die > GPM Buchbestellungsseite oder im Buchhandel bezogen werden.

American Football game in Germany

On Saturday evening I was in Bielefeld and visited the football game > Bielefeld Bulldogs against > Bochum Cadets in the Rußheide stadium. The Cadets has won the > game with 35 : 27. At half time the Bulldogs let 21:7. It was a game in the > Regionalliga. This is the third league below the > German Football League (GFL) and the 2. GFL. American Football is not so popular as other sports in Germany. So each game has no many attendees.

Verteilung von Namen

Durch Zufall bin ich auf die Webseite > verwandt.de gekommen. Dort kann sich der Besucher anzeigen lassen, welcher Nachname wie häufig in welchen Kreisen vorkommt. Ausgewertet werden die Telefonbucheinträge. Der Name ‘Kremer’ kommt danach im Rheinland am häufigsten vor (was ich aber schon vorher wusste). Der Kreis mit den meisten Telefonbucheinträgen ist Limburg- Weilburg. Auch für Österreich, Schweiz und Polen kann die Namenverteilung angezeigt werden.

Verteilung des Namens Kremer

Woher stammt dein Name?

New videos

I found some new videos about Lotus software and collaboration topics.

First, IBM has a new channel on Youtube.com: > Collaboration4you.

Second, > CollaborationMatters has added a great > LotusLive.com ad to Youtube.com.

Third, > PAVONE has a new channel on Youtube.com: >PAVONEtv.

Fourth, a new flash with five videos about advantages of the usage of Lotus Notes/Domino-based products: > Navigator (Found on PAVONE Media Center.) (Only in german available.)

LotusLive was launched

Today > LotusLive.com was launched. It provides e-mail, web conferencing and some collaboration services. You can try LotusLive.com 45 days. Afterwards you have to pay for the usage.  Further, Stuart McIntyre has started a new blog about LotusLive.com: > The LotusLive Blog.