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		<title>Instant communication is still no substitute for planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Make sure that instant communication devices are working for your project, not against it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2008/03/instant-communication-is-still-no-substitute-for-planning/</link>
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		<title>Too busy to think</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is your behavior telling your brain and your co-workers? If you feel too busy, you just might be.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2006/02/busythink/</link>
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		<title>International software firm hires What If Project for PMO development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Galileo, an international software development division, hires What If Project to lead PMO development project.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2006/02/international-software-firm-hires-what-if-project-for-pmo-development/</link>
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		<title>Sample of rates for IT services shows wide variability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A survey of IT service providers for the State of Colorado shows wide variation in rates.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2006/01/itrates/</link>
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		<title>What If Project leads teambuilding for Microsoft UX group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What If Project leads a teambuilding and brainstorming event for Microsoft's UX hardware group.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2006/01/newsmicrosoft/</link>
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		<title>Do your clients seem crazy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your client's crazy behavior causing your team to lose it's mind?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2006/01/crazyclient/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Is the American Dream Killing You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles
This is a good book with a few fatal flaws. First, the author &#8212; obviously a very intelligent and passionate person &#8212; makes a critical reasoning error by mistaking correlation for causation. Just because two things happen together, doesn&#8217;t mean that one of them caused the other.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2006/01/bookdream/</link>
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		<title>Why YOUR Small Business Needs Project Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t use lame excuses as a reason to avoid improving your business practices.
Small businesses &#8212; even one-person companies &#8212; need to learn and integrate the best practices of project management because in small companies project failure is more likely and other project risks are higher. A project that is behind or over budget in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2006/01/smallbizpm/</link>
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		<title>Trust Me, You Don&#8217;t Do EVERYTHING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t dilute your opportunities by making your sales pitch too general.
I recently attended a EXPO for interactive designers sponsored by the AIGA in Denver. As a small social experiment, I went around to each of the exhibits, located the sponsor of that table and asked:
&#8220;What do you do?&#8221;
&#8220;We do everything,&#8221; said a young, hip designer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2005/12/doeverything/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni
This book is good, but not that good. The first problem is that this book is an allegory. While this is a helpful method of teaching, it also tends to oversimplify problems and their proposed solutions. Teamwork, especially at the leadership level, is one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.what-if-project.com/blog/2005/11/bookdysfunction/</link>
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