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In researching effective communication for project managers, my team determined that quality communication is a critical component. We reference the book "Effective Business Communications" by Herta Murphy, Herbert Hildebrandt and Jane Thomas. This eHow article summarizes the author's "seven c's" of effective communication directly from the book. These communication skills, both oral and written, are the foundation for helping you express yourself clearly and correctly.

AceProject offers a collection of features pulling from the best of professional project management applications, such as Microsoft Project. Some of the features include storing and sharing documents online, using your interactive Gantt Charts to visually track projects & tasks progress, viewing deadlines & task dependencies. AceProject offers a basic account that is free: http://www.aceproject.com/signup/.

This blog post discusses the five key points to consider when trying to increase emotional intelligence.

Here is a PM online assessment (for purchase): There is an Overview, Breakdown, and Sample Questions. This opens my eyes to the fact that maybe companies (such as my own) should give this assessment or a similar one to folks before handing over a project to those individuals.

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Helpful information and good tips to put into practice.

This is a great free tool for sharing documents (especially large documents that are too big to email).

The GoToMeeting platform can be used for meetings for groups in which all teammates are not in the same location.

I have used GoToWebinar and I loved it. It is easy to use and professional looking. I am curious to try GoToMeeting and GoToTraining.

It is interesting to me that so many people like GoToMeeting/Webinar/Training. I've had mixed experiences with it. It lacks some of the functionality of other tools like Adobe Connect (chat features vary depending on which version you have, playing videos is very problematic, relies on screen sharing to share documents and do presentations). We do a lot of webinars, many with very large audiences (300-1000 people). While this is fine for meetings and daily business. I don't recommend this for large groups., It also isn't good if you want to have a virtual room when you can leave your documents, notes etc.

This site provides a good overview of the Scrum methodology and information about training and certification programs. I went through an onsite Scrum Master course a year ago and was recently reminded that it was time to renew my certification. The Scrum Master test was pretty easy right after the training.

Jeff Sutherland created Scrum, so go to the source. He and Ken Schwaber wrote and currently maintain this guide.

I am very interested in Scrum. Thank you for posting. I also found this site: http://www.projectsatwork.com/.

I like scrum simply because I want the title of Scrum Master.