by Donna Fitzgerald | July 30, 2009 | Comments Off
I got asked a question about the impact of budget cuts on PPM efforts and through my usual circuitous thought process I ended up wondering if anyone was seeing a significant reduction in the largely unnecessary SOX compliance process that IT has been laboring under. Obviously the previous statement is one that some people will disagree with [...]
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Category: PMO Tags: Cost Management, SOX
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just picked up a new book called Reinventing Project Management by Aaron Shenhar and Dov Dvir. I freely admit what interested me about it is that it looks very similar to the model I’ve been working with for years that I call creating an ”area of order”. I’ve only had time to read snatches so [...]
Category: Book Reviews Tags: PPM Books
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 28, 2009 | Comments Off
I had a discussion today with some folks as to whether or not setting a goal to move from a level one maturity to level three in two years was a good idea. We generally tell clients that level three is a good level to aim for, where everything begins to work well enough to get things done. So the [...]
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Category: PMO Tags: PPM Maturity
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 26, 2009 | Comments Off
There’s something seductively attractive about the concept of a strange attractor, that force that causes a random, unpredictable system to stay within observable boundaries without becoming either nonrandom or predictable. Margret Wheatley, in her book Leadership and the New Science, talks about the fact that strange attractors reveal the order that is inherent in certain [...]
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Category: Book Reviews Tags: CAS, Chaos Theory, Complex Adaptive Systems Theory, Strange Attractor
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 25, 2009 | Comments Off
Just back from Ohio and Kentucky. I had some great conversations with clients about their current efforts to establish EPMOs in their organizations. At this moment I can safely say there isn’t a one size fits all answer that everyone is gravitating toward. The most interesting realization I had was that many of these organizations [...]
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by Donna Fitzgerald | July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
Turns out we are going to be using twitter and live polling all through the conference. Hear the fire crackers and horns sound in celebration. I’m so excited that I’ve planned both mediums into my panel discussion. So given all my prior entries commenting that PMs are probably the most Luddite group on the planet [...]
Category: PPM Summit Technology Tags: PPM Summit, Twitter
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
As I mentioned in my last post I’ve started to read the book Stand Back and Deliver and so far I’ve had an interesting insight. In the first chapter there is a great story about an ERP project gone bad. As I was reading the story I pulled out my highlighter and start listing in [...]
Category: PMO Tags: Community of Practice, PM 2.0, Storytelling
