The Nimble PM

I’m going to be writing a note about packaged Project Management Methods and I thought I’d start out by asking some questions about the decision process many of you use to select your approach toward the adoption of a PM method.  If you’re game to take a short (10 question) survey compliments of survey monkey [...]

One of the topics I had planned to spend more time discussing in 2010 is change management.  I found this quote today that I think offers a nice perspective on one element of change management “It’s called the culture buffer because you have to put effort in to get past it and break through. It’s [...]

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 got asked a question about the impact of budget cuts on PPM efforts and through my usual circuitous thought process I ended up wondering if anyone was seeing a significant reduction in the largely unnecessary SOX compliance process that IT has been laboring under. Obviously the above statement is one that some people will disagree [...]