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My New Favorite PM Blog
... well, besides our own that is--is Paul Ritchie's/SAP's Crossderry blog, especially the PM Quote of the Day feature. Worth starting your day with a cuppa joe and some words of wisdom. Paul's wide-ranging net finds relevance to our work days in sources from Esther Dyson to Sappho. Kudos, Paul ...
Hard Times Call for Agility
For an old-time print-publishing dinosaur like myself, publishing on a blog is the very essence of agility. The ability to “converse” with readers in real time seems as magical to me as the telephone must have seemed to a generation of folks accustomed to the pace of letter-writing. It also has an e
Measurement Answers the Question: Are Your Strategy and Processes Working?
Without proper performance measurement, there's no way to know. That's why we need to measure performance. Yet the question persists: Does the cost of measurement pay for the value? My response is a classic one … it depends. It depends on who's asking you to measure…and why? For example, if you
Crossing the Great Divide
No, this post isn't about the Rockies ... except in the sense that projects face a rocky road when confronting with resource management challenges ... which is, according to our research, the most common challenge in project management. No, the divide I'm posting about is the one between projects
Dancing with Projects
There's much being written these days about the need for agility in business. Yet I wonder whether most folks really understand or appreciate what's meant by "agility." Agility does not mean unmanaged or undocumented! A look in the dictionary reveals a lot about agile management practices. The word