How to Become PMO of the Year
As a judge for the PMO of the Year sponsored by the Center for Business Practices, I was impressed by […]
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project-management
Courageous management of priorities, projects, and people
How do you keep an organization innovative, fast-moving, and productive when facing the relentless parallel needs of ongoing operations, servicing
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What is Your Leadership Style?
PMI Silicon Valley (www.pmisv.org) and Insights Learning and Development (www.insights.com) have partnered on a study to identify the current strengths
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Improving Project Maturity…in Government?
How do you fix a woefully underfunded government organization and implement over 50 significant citizen serving systems in less than
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Creating Excellence
Creating excellence IN project management is about viewpoints, insights, and practices on why, what, how, and who to optimize project-based
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Dealing with Complexity
As the content and program director for the PMI NorCal Symposium 2008, I am biased but nevertheless excited as all
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Saying No
Saying “no” is hard for everyone. “If I say “no”, they will think I’m not a team player.” “If I
An Outsourcing Progress Report
I’ve written somewhat negatively about outsourcing in the past: primarily issuing warnings about doing it without proper planning, for the
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PM vs Matrix Organization
I have worked in a true Project Organization, a Strong Matrix and a Weak Matrix. From a corporate perspective, there
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PLC Implementation: A Case Study (Part 2)
Ok, we have performed a number of interviews and town hall meetings at all levels of the company, evaluated the
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PLC Implementation: A Case Study (Part 1)
The last two companies I have worked at were both experiencing significant challenges with bring products to market in a
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