The Soft Side of Practicing Hard Skills

May 14, 2009

Debbie's comment regarding improved employee morale being an ancillary benefit of project management brings to mind a discussion I had with a client CIO last year who had been wondering about measuring the benefits of the project management and portfolio management methodologies he had introduced in

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Agility Happens!

April 27, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

... how's that for a bumper sticker? All kidding aside, my friend and colleague Karen White pinged me the other day to tell me to visit the CEO's blog on the PMI website (it's in our blogroll - check it out). As the author of the 2008 CBP book Agile Project Management, Karen was excited to see that

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Heads-Up to our Blog Subscribers: A Housekeeping Issue

March 24, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

You may be aware that Google recently acquired Feedburner, the service we have used to maintain the Strategy & Projects blog mailing list and posting alerts. The transition has been rocky for us, and we have lost the ability to update our account information in Feedburner. (That's why the alert

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And the winner is ....

March 24, 2009

We've selected the 2009 PMO of the Year from a field of nearly 40 applicants that included state and federal agencies, major nonprofit organizations, and an impressive field of Fortune 1000 companies. In the end, the top ten differed in the rankings by mere tenths of a percentage point. and only fiv

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More on PM and the Times We Live In

February 19, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Just after I made my last post, several things came across my desk that said: Nope, you aren't crazy after all. First, my colleague Matt Crawford sent me this link to coverage of the role of PMOs in the downturn. According to the CIO of the Baylor Health Care System, "Anytime you add what might ap

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