Donna FitzgeraldMumble, mumble, mumble. Life has been busy in Gartner Land and that means that somethings (like cross posting to my personal blog) have had to slide. Not sure why I decided to take 10 minutes and post something yesterday but I’m glad I did. Turned out I’d been hacked. Yeh, I was stupid (I hadn’t upgraded) and yeh I got what I deserved BUT as you’d expect, my real lesson was that I had underestimated the lifecycle “cost” of the blog. It was a pretty easy mistake to make. After all, in my mind my personal blog was just supposed to be a duplicate of my Gartner blog with just a few more personal things thrown in along the way. Risk? What risk? It was supposed to be simple.
All of you out there who manage projects and programs for a living are welcome to have a good laugh at my expense. I do know better. I know that Murphy is always lurking in the shadows and he’ll launch a sneak attack whenever you least expect it. I know that things always take longer and involve more work than I’d hoped. Not only do I know this but I’m famous for reminding all of you that risk management is EVERYTHING. The problem is it’s just too easy to take your eye off the small things ….
So now with the help of my fantastic in-house IT department (otherwise known as my husband) we’ll get it fixed. I will also commit to getting better about backups and upgrades. The big lesson out of this is that Murphy gets his foot in the door when you’re running to hard to make sure you’ve done everything you need to do.
So to every frazzled PMO director, stressed program manager, exhausted project manager, and numb portfolio manager my advice of the day is to slow down. You’ll get where you’re going faster.
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Category: PMO Program Management Technology Tags: Murphy, Rsk Management
