by Donna Fitzgerald | March 24, 2009 | Comments Off
I was reading the note on Foxes and Hedgehogs at Jim Collins website (which now appears to have been removed). His assertion is that a hedgehog is focused and tends to adhere to a single unifying principle and a fox tends to flit from interest to interest. He then contends that the world is split [...]
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Category: PMO Tags: Personality
by Donna Fitzgerald | March 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
Leadership is not based on formal authority. Especially since, at the early levels of maturity, project management might still be approached on a somewhat informal basis. What this will generally mean to a PM is that the ability to form a team. focus the teams actions toward the agreed upon goal and deliver the project [...]
Category: Program Management Tags: Leadership, Program Management, Project Management
by Donna Fitzgerald | March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Doug DeCarlo (the author of Extreme Project Management) has an interesting concept he calls project imperatives. A project imperative is the thing or things that will cause the PM’s head to be loped off if he or she fails to deliver. Since good PMs are hard to come by I like the idea of making [...]
Category: PMO Tags: critical success factors, Project Management
by Donna Fitzgerald | March 15, 2009 | Comments Off
Let me begin by offering my vision of what I hope to accomplish by writing this blog. For background let me say that for the past 12 years I’ve moderated a worldwide discussion group focused on project management. It’s been a wonderful experience but it’s taken up what little spare time I’ve had, leaving me [...]
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