December 15, 2009
All project managers see their job differently. Some are very lofty in describing their role; others seem lost still trying to discover it. There is talk […]
December 12, 2009
Most organizational leaders are compensated for executing on strategy and maintaining daily operations. While true, this is an overly glorified way of presenting their job description. […]
November 24, 2009
Writing good requirements is frequently portrayed as a unique skill to business analysts, it’s not, it’s a unique skill to good writers. Requirements are simply a […]
November 11, 2009
Putting a strategy together is very rewarding. Whether it’s for your division, department, or small business, it gets you thinking about the future and all the […]
October 28, 2009
The theorists have won. The latest version of Project Management Institute’s (PMI)® Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) has done away with the project triangle, […]
October 21, 2009
Working on projects can be very demanding, taxing our energy and resiliency. There are often spurts of overtime that have to be put in to get […]
August 21, 2009
We have been unfair to end-users for far too long. We ask them what they want the application to do for them and they tell us […]
August 6, 2009
Projects are neither good nor bad: they’re neutral. They succeed or fail because of what team members do to them, the skills each team member brings […]
July 22, 2009
The hardest thing to do when launching a project is to define it into a box. Yes, I said define it INTO a box. When a […]
July 1, 2009
“If management would only let us do it the right way.” “We can’t do it without the right tools.” “If only we had the right people […]