Agile. It's A. Dead. B. Insidious. C. Human.

August 28, 2019 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

A number of stories about agile in my inbox this week made me think of this quote often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi  (although it's more likely from a speech by a labor organizer, Nicholas Klein, it does paraphrase thoughts expressed in some of Gandhi's published works). Long ignored as an enthusia

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Register Today for "How Adaptive Is Your Organization? Key Success Factors in the Changing World of PM"

January 29, 2019 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Project management practice is in the midst of a sea-change. Adaptive methods that once occupied a specialist niche are being mainstreamed in response to a competitive climate that demands greater flexibility, more transparency, and faster results. As organizations continue to experiment with, and e

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What He Said: Rules of Engagement, from the Mayo Clinic CRM PMO - The View from PMI Part 2

October 11, 2018 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

This blog was updated July 2025. My top feel-good session at this year’s PMI Global Conference was a case study of the Mayo Clinic’s PMO at their Center for Regenerative Medicine. Not only is the visionary work of the CRM inspiring, but I was impressed by the PMO leader, Wale Elegbede, PMP. When he

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The Long View from Far Away

September 30, 2018 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Sometimes you have to get a little distance from familiar things to see them in perspective. I experienced this in September during a three-week break, out of the country, away from it all, and on a bit of an enforced “device fast” with no wifi or mobile data. In a brief airport interlude,

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What’s the Value of Management Consulting?

May 31, 2018 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Now, there’s a loaded question. But it is one we constantly strive to answer in our consulting practice; take a look at the “Results” sections of our client case studies, posted here, to get situation-specific answers. In addition to these industry- and organization-specific value datapoints, we ju

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