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Reflections on PM Reading Lists

by Donna Fitzgerald  |  November 27, 2009  |  1 Comment

Glen Alleman on his Herding Cat’s blog  just published a list of recommended project management books that I encourage everyone to check out.  What I found interesting was the low number of books that overlapped between my list and Glen’s.  Obviously we both had Jim Highsmith’s book Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (which in now out in [...]

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If You Build it They May or May Not Come

by Donna Fitzgerald  |  November 10, 2009  |  Comments Off

Several months ago the Wall Street Journal and I were having what amounted to be a discussion on the elasticity of demand based on pricing.  They billed my credit card for a full priced renewal and I called and cancelled.  They then called me about once a month and tried to get me to renew [...]

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The Decreasing Value Case for Project Management

by Donna Fitzgerald  |  November 9, 2009  |  7 Comments

While in the process of finishing up a note about ensuring organizations have competent project managers, I ran across an article that contended that project managers were so focused on the metrics of “on-time and on-budget” that they had become incapable of actually remembering that the goal of their project was to deliver strategic business [...]

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