Searching for Best-Practice Examples of Measures ... and Measurement Programs

May 18, 2010 | by Deborah Bigelow Crawford

In the Measuring Performance workshop that I teach for PMI, I am often asked for specific measures can be used to prove the value of the PMO to executives.  Of course, our own Value Measurement system includes a number of measures of this type, from numbers of projects completed in a certain time fr

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Chaos! (Or Maybe Not)

April 30, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Several months ago, a colleague asked me if I could clarify some of the buzz he'd heard about the Standish Group's CHAOS report statistics on IT project success and failure. This wasn't the first time I'd heard grousing - from both the research community and the IT community - about this set of stat

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The More Things Change ...

September 10, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

I'm writing this in Paris.   (Okay, you are right, I should not be working.) But an experience today made me want to post here: Two elderly ladies sat down next to me on a park bench in the garden behind Notre Dame, and one remarked that she had seen on television the night before a story about a

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Back to School

September 7, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

September already! Yesterday I saw my first scarlet maple leaf, artistically arranged on top of a daisy, as if to graphically depict the change of seasons. The university and the high school are back in business in my little town (you can't miss the traffic on Main St. ... or the young, invincible d

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My New Favorite PM Blog

November 20, 2008 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

... 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 ...

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