PMP Question of the Week: Estimate Duration

You, the project manager, and your new, inexperienced project team are preparing initial activity duration estimates for a network upgrade project. You are relying on the team to provide the estimates because this project is not new to the enterprise. Which of the following tools and techniques should the project team use to estimate duration for this project?

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Learning for the Rewired Brain

Each day, a new device or program is introduced into our world, compelling us to integrate more technology into our lives. Even the most mundane tasks, like washing the clothes, now involves computerized devices. Yet have you ever wondered how this pervasive amount of technology may be affecting the way that we learn? Could our learning style be evolving alongside technology? It has been suggested that, unlike the baby boomers of the post-World War II era, digital natives – or individuals reared in a technologically diverse environment dominated by unprecedented modes of communication and consistent exposure to vast amounts of information – may be physiologically primed (or wired) to process information differently than their non-native counterparts.

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Quick Look at VMware vSphere 6.0: VMware Integrated OpenStack

Two terms that you will see most if you read IT forums today are “cloud” and “Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC)”; but what do they really mean? vSphere provides the capability to create an isolated compute (CPU and memory) environment for each of your applications. In fact, this has been true for years. Now, with integrated products such as VMware’s NSX and VSAN you can create an isolated, controllable and secure network and storage environment for each of your applications as well.

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