Maturity’s Impact on Organizational Change

July 27, 2012 | by Allen Young

Maturity doesn’t always come up as a significant factor in Organizational Change Management (OCM) discussion circles, but in my experience, you ignore it at your peril! I became aware of this issue while setting up Project Management Offices (PMOs) and doing enterprise Project Portfolio Management (

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Transformational Resources: An Interview with J. Kent Crawford

July 18, 2012 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Q: Lately many of our corporate discussions have centered on the role of the “transformational resource.” Can you tell us your thoughts about that? What makes a resource “transformational?” Crawford: There are project managers and program managers … and then there are mega program managers. These

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Organizational Change Management: Cultural Resistance

June 25, 2012 | by Allen Young

As stated in my primer blog on Organizational Change Management (OCM), without OCM, when change confronts culture, culture always wins! In order to get the culture of a firm to embrace and institutionalize a significant change, several factors come into play that, depending on how they are handled,

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Organizational Change Management: A Primer

June 14, 2012 | by Allen Young

This blog was updated July 2025. “Change Management” can mean differing and multiple things to many firms and the people who work for them. To the software developer, it usually means managing version control and scheduled promotion of new or modified software components from a test, quality assura

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The Backbone of Projects: True Communication

April 13, 2012 | by Alan Fein

Most project managers are keenly aware of the importance of communication management in the success of our projects. If perhaps not the most important, communication is certainly the ultimate discipline in project management; no communication, no project. However, there is one component of communica

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