*PPM: Deciding Where to Begin By Jeff Monteforte
With so many IT management methodologies to choose from its often hard to know where to even start. But, if project or asset management (or both) is your goal, here's a few tips on taking those first steps.

*Managing the Sarbanes-Oxley Project By Ralph L. Kliem
At the close of the last century, public corporations raced to meet the Y2K challenge. Now, during the initial few years of this century, these same corporations are racing to meet another deadline: compliance with the Section 404 requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) legislation. - The best article we've seen yet RE:SarBox from the PM prospective

*The Seven Practices We Could (and Should) Implement to Improve IT Project Management By Douglas M. Arnstein
IT projects are frequently known for cost and schedule overruns and for delivering less functionality than originally planned.  If the promise of project management was to address haphazard software delivery, why are so many IT projects still challenged?

APQC’s Project Management Best-practice Report presents - 5 Tips for Successful Project Management By ProjectMagazine.Com
This short article contains some fundamental but nonetheless valuable tips on generating positive results from your project portfolio.

Communications in the Workplace: Personal Issues – When Are They Your Business? By Kate McLeod, PMP
Project Managers are taught to plan for any possibility: we have plans for procurement, communication, and even a plan for how we will plan. We have risk and resource planning, which sometimes intercept: we must plan for the loss of a key resource, or for a shortage of subject matter experts. But how do we plan to deal with the emotional, medical and family problems with our staff? Should we even take this into consideration?

FBI: Cold Case Files By Deborah Gage
The federal agency stumbled in its attempt to trade a paper-based filing system for an electronic one. Experts offer tips on how the agency can regain its balance. – this is a fairly long article, but fascinating and worth your while.  You might want to print this out and read it on the train.