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 | July 12, 2010 | 3 Comments
I recently had two calls both of which centered around the need for real change management. In both cases there was a problem that needed to be solved, and in both cases the original suggestion was to just establish new rules and then enforce them. The only problem was that in many ways the old rules were [...]
Category: PMO Program Management Project Management Tags: Change Management, Storytelling
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 | June 27, 2010 | Comments Off
I’ve used software package “A” (the product shall remain nameless since this is a personal opinion and not a Gartner MQ type of comment) since the first version came out on windows 3.1. Originally is was cheap enough that I didn’t mind being a loyal customer and I upgraded faithfully. Somewhere about 10 years ago [...]
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Category: Applications PMO Tags: Future Trends, Productivity, SaaS, Software
by Donna Fitzgerald | June 12, 2010 | Comments Off
This year’s summit ended Wednesday and I’m still amazed at how great it was. It seems from the feedback I got – that the mix of leading edge and practical suggestions was right and many attendees really liked hearing the case studies that were presented (my personal thanks to Bradd Busick from the City of [...]
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Category: PMO PPM Summit Tags: EPMO, PPM Summit
by Donna Fitzgerald | June 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
“If the client cannot be clear about what they want or worse yet doesn’t know what they want, then your project risks failure from the beginning.” Advice from a PM Blog How many of you have given this advice to a new PM? I know I have. I remember vividly explaining to a fellow consultant the mistakes she made in failing to determine exactly what the client wanted when she [...]
Category: PMO Project Management Tags:
by Donna Fitzgerald | April 28, 2010 | 3 Comments
I just had another experience of giving a client an answer they didn’t expect. Fundamentally I explained they were trying to solve the wrong problem and therefore were “looking for their keys where the light was better” (for those of you who know the old joke). I actually get these calls a lot but this [...]
Category: Organizational Development PMO Tags:
by Donna Fitzgerald | April 25, 2010 | 3 Comments
In my last post When is a Project Too Large for Agile Project Management? I made the case that we NEVER can be sure of what will happen on our project or programs because Murphy will always get his “pound of flesh”. In Mosaicproject’s Blog entry “If it can go wrong they recount the story of a terrorist pigeon [...]
Category: PMO Project Management Tags: CAS, Project Management, Risk Management
by Donna Fitzgerald | March 17, 2010 | Comments Off
I got an email this morning from my friend and colleague Stewart Buchanan that was simply too good not to share. We’ve been emailing each other around some of the finer nuances of portfolio management and he wrote: Clients can be in such a hurry to add new projects to the portfolio that they fail [...]
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Category: PMO Project Portfolio Managemnet Tags: Contingency Funds
by Donna Fitzgerald | March 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
One of the blogs I read whenever I get the chance is Jed Simms Value Delivery Management blog. I had the opportunity to speak with Jed a couple of years ago and was impressed with his practical, no nonsense approach toward all things PPM. Last week I was particularly struck by his 8 Self-Evident Truths about PPM. To paraphrase [...]
Category: Organizational Development PMO Tags: area of order, critical success factors
