Archives for November, 2009
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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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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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 [...]
Category: PMO Tags: Project Management, Value