Following up on Margaret Rouse’s post on my Choosing the Right PMO Vision Series, today we deal with the mythical queue:
Margaret: You really got me thinking. I think what REALLY blew me away was when you said that 74% of all projects fail — and that the number could be even higher for IT projects. […]
Margaret Rouse blogs at IT Knowledge Exchange on an amazing variety of topics. Read it and be informed! I find some of the most interesting blog commentors are IT people who engage with me about innovative project management processes- clearly they are making an effort to bring IT and the user together. Her post about […]
The McKinsey Quarterly technology trends article presents an interesting spin on extracting more value from interactions. First they separate activities into three types:
1. Transformational- production and manufacturing.
2. Transactional- clerical or simple rule-based.
3. Tacit- negotiations, conversations, knowledge, ad hoc collaboration.
The first two are ripe for automating or offshoring. The third is ripe for supporting through technology […]
The McKinsey Quarterly article on technology trends to watch had some gems. These trends will cause pressure to do a lot of projects that need control- first in the choice of projects that match strategies and then in making sure those projects get all the help they need to get done. In such an environment […]
Miki Saxon’s post in her Leadership Turn blog about a new book called EPIC Change by Timothy Clark got my attention. There’s no use trying to summarize it except to say that “EPIC” stands for Evaluation, Preparation, Implementation and Consolidation; read her excellent post for more. Then get ready to deal with change if you want […]
Many viewpoints and a lot to think about. My post on “Do Great Statesman Make Great Business Leaders” is worth reading for the comments and links especially those by Miki Saxon and Eric Eggertston. Eric wrote a follow up post with some good reader comments. Miki shared an enlightening post she wrote on “abusing the […]
Recently a good friend told me that if you are not a man of your word that you can’t make, let alone keep, commitments. The corollary is that if you make a commitment you should keep it or risk degrading your “word”. A simple example is picking up a friend for work. You make the […]
Commitment. It’s a word that creates more questions than answers because of the changes and distractions that follow commitments we make. I started this blog in October 2007 while working for a consulting firm specializing in project management software implementations. My rationale for the commitment was 1) it fit with my current position, 2) I […]
I’ve inadvertently fallen into a great practice. Being caught having to write a new daily post for my blog I couldn’t think of anything to write. Sometimes the pressure of a deadline inspires me but lately I seem to not think as well under certain types of pressure.
When I started writing a series of posts […]
My forays into agile software development led me to Martin Fowler’s excellent web site and his most recent bliki post; in it he deals with how clients slowly allow their test programs to degrade making it very difficult to upgrade software. What I was more interested in was his lament about losing touch as an […]
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