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Revision no help for tough governance exam

A new qualification is available for experts in IT governance. It’s so hard that you can’t revise for it, only take it and hope you are good enough to pass, as Gary Flood reports.
Sorry if the above seems off-putting, but the organisation behind the certification is adamant that becoming Certified in [...]

How safe is your mobile phone?

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NIGC Fees: 2010 Preliminary Rate

The NIGC has adopted preliminary fee rates of 0.00% for tier 1 and 0.060%(.00060) for tier 2 for calendar year 2010.
The fees are to be sent in two semi-annual payments on June 30 and December 31. Send your payment to
Finance Department
National Indian Gaming Commission
1441 L Street N.W., Suite 9100
Washington, DC 20005
Use calendar year 2009 assessable [...]

Common red flags to identify fraud

These are broken down into three groupings: common personality traits of fraudsters, common sources of pressure, and changes in behavior.
COMMON PERSONALITY TRAITS OF FRAUDSTERS
Live beyond their means.
Have financial difficulties.
Have a wheeler-dealer attitude.
Are domineering and controlling.
Have an unusually close relationship with customers or vendors.
Express irritability, suspiciousness, or defensiveness.
Do not like people reviewing their work.
Have a [...]

Innovative project managers use ‘think time’

This is a good project management article by Jay Rollins.
If you find yourself using the same PM solutions over and over again, you may need to carve out some “think time” to help stay innovative.
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I recently attended a project management seminar in which one of the speakers noted that a project manager must be systematic [...]

Build a customized Gantt chart view in Microsoft Project

The number of views into Microsoft Project’s scheduling data can be overwhelming. The delivered views on the Microsoft Project view bar include the Gantt chart, resource usage, task usage, and resource graph views. When you combine these views with the entry, cost, tracking, and variance tables, it can get confusing.
Novice project managers remedy this problem [...]

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Save changes to all open Word documents at one time

If your Word sessions often wind up with a lot of open documents, this obscure command can streamline the process of closing them and saving your changes.

This simple technique comes in handy when you’re working in multiple documents and want to make sure you’ve saved your changes to all of them. I actually use it [...]

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