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Nothing like having great discussions for all the world to see (I’ll never be able to run for office). I’ve personally learned a lot and I know that several others have spawned posts from discussions started here. That’s what blogging is all about. Join in and comment on the […]
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Thought I’d tell you what you seem to like here at Project Management 411. Looking over my viewing statistics I see that you like controversy, trends, packaged series, New Years stuff, and soul searching two-worders. So, take a look at what other’s have been reading in order […]
Intelligent Enterprise article “The Seven Pillars of BI Success” closed with a success story where agile software development processes came into play. 1-800 Contacts, winner of 2006 TDWI Best Practice Award, first aligned their BI project with a call-center-incentive project. The agile software development approach fostered high value innovative ideas to allow monitoring and improvement […]
Reading up on projects involving Business Intelligence (BI) I found an excellent Intelligent Enterprise article, “The Seven Pillars of BI Success”. What I am finding is a remarkable similarity between PMOs and their governance models and BI. This is because BI deals with centralizing information control that has been decentralized by department (silos) and many […]
Harvard Business on-line’s post by Tom Davenport seems to deal with culture when describing two extremes to strategy development and execution:
1. Strategic Engineering- strategy is an engineering exercise with employees being the cogs in the machine.
2. Strategic Anarchy- executives get out of the way of employee’s entrepreneurial and innovative energies.
He suggests that a reconciliation of […]
In my last post I said strategy mapping is “seemingly simple” because environments have different requirements depending on the industry, size, growth patterns, and degree of change. For example, an implantable medical device manufacturer I worked with was more concerned with having scalable business processes and systems because they expected extremely high growth once the […]
Aligning projects with strategies, assuming that the company has strategies, is one of the simplest ways to quickly see which projects are worth doing. Conversely, projects that don’t align with strategies should quickly be assessed and probably stopped. One of the ways to get a read on alignment is to simply put together a strategy […]
My post on the PMO relieving pain prompted a response by ActiveEngine about pain being crucial to gain people’s attention. Pain and uncovering it can be a multi-layered process seemingly without end- i.e., dealing with one problem inevitably leads to having to deal with others which can get discouraging. This is probably because the “swamp […]
Margaret Rouse at IT Knowledge Exchange continues our conversation on PMOs. We started by talking about how a PMO relieves pain, then the PMO’s role in dealing with the dreaded mythical queue of projects, and now language barriers in agile software development projects .
My post on how previous experience with lean manufacturing might overcome some […]
Projects can be personal especially when something like Social Security system failure is looming. This post is part of a blogging “odd couple” duet, hopefully with a lot of engaging conversation to follow, with Mary Emma Allen at www.homebiznotes.com. Her post on the same subject is from a self-employed/home business perspective, mine more from the […]
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