It's easy to have meetings run off topic, especially in a busy work environment. Make sure that your project meetings are not used as an opportunity to socialize.
In this section we have articles that show some of the practical ways to get things started, whether we are planning to have a meeting, create a project plan, document lessons learned or obtain status on open actions / tasks.
Managing or participating in projects means being part of many project activities. Having explored some or most of them by simply being part of projects or managing them, you may have questions on how these activities are normally carried out, what are the more optimal and practical ways to get them started,what are the known best practices around these activities.
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On Agile programming projects the term Pig has come to describe all the developers, designers and testers who commit to the actual work. The term Chicken is applied to everyone else who makes intellectual contributions but does not commit to any work (coding). However, the concept of the chicken and the pig goes much further in Agile Project Management. You do need to decide if you are a project chicken or pig.
Anyone who has done any type of programming course probably remembers their teacher speaking to them at some point about a methodology in which you had to work to find better ways to develop software by working as a team. Basically if you knew how software could be cracked – you would be able to figure out how to build the better program that was hacker proof. But what does this have to do with Project Management?
Where did the concept of Project Management come from? How did it come into existence? What are some of the project management methodologies and when did they start? Often it is said that to know where we are going, we must know from whence we came. If there is a clear understanding of what influenced the need for Project Management, then understanding will come on how and why this profession and project methodology is so important.
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In this section we have articles that show some of the practical ways to get things started, whether we are planning to have a meeting, create a project plan, document lessons learned or obtain status on open actions / tasks. 
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