by Donna Fitzgerald | October 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
There are concepts and connections I kick around in my mind for years before I get to the core of the issue. One reoccurring point of interest has been the relationship between leadership and courage. Somehow the concepts have always been connected for me but I’ve been told repeatedly that I’m wrong and overly romanticizing [...]
Category: Agile IT Governance Organizational Development PMO Tags: Leadership, Risk
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 19, 2010 | 2 Comments
I was sitting on the plane last week trying to get some writing done and as it always, one thought lead to another until I realized I was contemplating why organizations fear shades of gray. All the incredible emphasis on process is designed to eliminate human judgment and ensure consistency but if we’d ever stop kidding ourselves, the [...]
Category: Agile Organizational Development PMO Tags: Decision Making, PPM Process
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Just got off the phone with a great client and as usual when I talk with great clients I realized something that I should always have known. The problem with a hierarchy, when it comes to culture change, is that we somehow think the people down in the lower levels of the org chart “aren’t [...]
Category: Agile Organizational Development PMO Tags: Change Management, Corporate Culture
by Donna Fitzgerald | June 30, 2010 | 5 Comments
My first research note (in a planned series) on the Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) was published a couple of weeks ago. See The Enterprise PMO: An Emerging Force in Strategy Realization http://www.gartner.com/resId=1382324 (Obviously this is free to clients and will have a fee associated with it for non-clients) I’ll be discussing some of the [...]
Category: Agile PMO Project Portfolio Managemnet Strategic Planning Tags: EPMO, Strategic Tactics
by Donna Fitzgerald | April 20, 2010 | 14 Comments
I have been asked about the upper limit of Agile Project and Program Management a number of times and it always frustrates me because the people who ask it don’t understand Agile. Now there’s no crime in not understanding Agile PPM. Even among those who claim to understand it — the explanations get so tightly wound around with [...]
Category: Agile Project Management Tags: CAS, Complex Adaptive Systems Theory
by Donna Fitzgerald | February 26, 2010 | Comments Off
I recently asked the Gartner PPM exchange community on linkedin to answer a couple of questions about their PPM methodology. One interesting outcome to this survey is that the majority of respondents answered that they had a separate methodology for Agile. I’m guessing that they meant they had a separate SDLC for Agile rather than [...]
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by Donna Fitzgerald | February 12, 2010 | Comments Off
I recently had a few moments to particpate in an email discussion with my collegues. We were tossing around ideas about how to reduce costs (a topic everyone is focusing on in this day and age) and I found myself putting my finance hat back on and saying — Beware falling into the trap that [...]
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Category: Agile Organizational Development PMO Tags: Benefit Realization, Complex Adaptive Systems, Mental Models, Systems Thinking
