by Donna Fitzgerald | August 31, 2011 | Comments Off
“Appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.” MACHIAVELLI I found this quote from Machiavelli in something I was reading this morning. I generally like [...]
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Category: PMO Program Management Project Management Tags: Difficult People, Leadership, Lessons Learned, Politics
by Donna Fitzgerald | August 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
Last week I suggested that there was value in setting aside an occasional Friday to reflect, plan, and learn. This week I decided to take my own advice. I’m currently in the process of preparing my presentation on the subject of whether or not an organization is ready to establish and Enterprise Program/portfolio Management Office [...]
Category: IT Governance Organizational Development PMO Tags: EPMO, Personal Mastery
by Donna Fitzgerald | August 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’m a big believer that no matter what job we’re in we need to spend some time looking at the big picture. It keeps us honest and it keeps us from making silly mistakes. The problem is when we are surrounded by trees it’s hard to see anything that isn’t right in front of us. [...]
Category: PMO Program Management Project Management Tags: Leadership
by Donna Fitzgerald | January 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
As many of you know October and November are symposium months and this year I had the opportunity to the around the world circuit of Orlando, Cannes and Sydney. It’s a well kept secret that sometimes these events are a bit of blur for the analysts and I am afraid I’m no exception. I had [...]
Category: New Normal PMO Tags: Complex Adaptive Systems, Program Management, Symposium
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 | September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve been noodling the issue of how much of an impact the younger generation is actually going to make on the workforce and as you might expect I’ve come to a minority conclusion. Most of the prognostication I’ve read are suffering from a fatal flaw. The opinions of high school students and freshly minted graduates [...]
Category: New Normal PMO Project Management Tags:
by Donna Fitzgerald | August 24, 2010 | Comments Off
I had a call last week that helped me connect the dots on a situation I’d occasionally found frustrating, but hadn’t really known why. Every once in a while a client will call and ask for information they can hand to their boss. For support personnel that is a completely valid request but if the person on [...]
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Category: Organizational Development PMO Tags: Leadership
by Donna Fitzgerald | August 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve been doing my imitation of a headless chicken recently so it was only this morning that I had a chance to sit down and go through my god-son’s pictures from his summer program in Japan. Let me begin by saying that I’ve never been to Japan. 6 years ago when we supposed to go, [...]
Category: PMO Technology Tags: Collaboration, Geographically disbursed teams, Leadership
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 28, 2010 | 6 Comments
I was just doing some research on change management and I had another light bulb moment. The article I was reading said you needed to make a business case for change, and my immediate gut reaction was “on what planet? Nobody ever makes a change for the sake of change.” In my experience most organizations, [...]
Category: Organizational Development PMO Tags: Change Management
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
