by Donna Fitzgerald | May 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
A post by Wally Bock on his Three Star Leadership Blog got me thinking about our the working environment we create based on how we manage our PMOs, our programs, and our projects. The 8 factors listed below are the compilation of feedback from Mr. Bock’s students about the work environments they preferred to work [...]
Category: PMO Tags: Leadership, Personal Mastery, Servant Leadership
by Donna Fitzgerald | May 25, 2009 | 4 Comments
Obviously at Gartner we spend some time discussing our research and sharing trends that we see developing that might change our persepctive on research we’ve published in the past. A couple of weeks ago we were discussing our maturity model and reviewing our short hand descriptions of each level. With tongue firmly in cheek Audrey [...]
Category: PMO Tags: PPM Maturity
by Donna Fitzgerald | May 19, 2009 | Comments Off
I was looking for something on the web. I think it was tips on how to be better organized if you’re right brained and think stack technology refers to the tower of papers on your desk. Anyway I ultimately ended up somewhere else entirely and saw something I actually thought might be useful to my fellow program [...]
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Category: Program Management Technology Tags: Program Management, Twitter
by Donna Fitzgerald | May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
In my last post I discussed two perspectives that will lead to better project results. In this posting I’ll be discussing the third perspective. 3) Projects results will improve as long as the project team is equipped to handle anything that might block their progress toward completion. Not sure I’ve got the statement above worded [...]
Category: PMO Tags: Agile, area of order, Project Management
by Donna Fitzgerald | May 11, 2009 | 6 Comments
“Project results will improve because there is an agreed upon methodology to be followed that helps repeat earlier successes from similar projects” This is one of the most common misconceptions in the PM space. One of the reasons it’s so seductive is that it sounds like it should be true. After all if we can [...]
Category: PMO Tags: PPM Maturity, PPM Process
