The Nimble PM

I was just doing some research on change management and I had another light bulb moment.  The article I was reading said you needed to make a business case for change, and my immediate gut reaction was “on what planet?  Nobody ever makes a change for the sake of change.”  In my experience most organizations, [...]

woke up this morning thinking about the fact that when I talk to CIOs many (if not most) tell me they know they don’t have the best project managers currently on staff.  My own experience would absolutely confirm this as true so the question is why don’t we fix it? Part of the answer seems [...]

I recently had a few moments to particpate in an email discussion with my collegues.  We were tossing around ideas about how to reduce costs (a topic everyone is focusing on in this day and age) and I found myself putting my finance hat back on and saying — Beware falling into the trap that [...]

I had a discussion a while ago about whether or not setting a goal to move from a level one maturity to level three in two years was a good idea.  We generally tell clients that level three is a good level to aim for, where everything begins to work well enough to get things [...]

I love speaking with clients.  Every conversation reminds me of something i might tend to forget or teaches me something completely new  Today’s learning was that there the can be too much of a good thing.  i’m a huge believer in organizational flexibility.  i have run organizations myself where it was a source of pride [...]