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 | 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 | September 21, 2009 | Comments Off
I promised that I’d pass along some thoughts about the PPM Summit so here goes: 1) We had a terrifically engaged audience. I’ve been speaking at one conference or another for just a few weeks shy of 13 years and hands down I felt that the attendees where there because they really cared about running [...]
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Category: PMO PPM Summit Program Management Tags: Leadership, PMO, Politics, PPM Summit, Program Management, Servant Leadership
by Donna Fitzgerald | September 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
The panel on the future of PPM seemed to go over well. No real surprises that about 75 percent of the audience hope the status quo will hold as the most likely future. We all want change only when it furthers our own desires. Other than that we have better things to worry about. General [...]
Category: PPM Summit Uncategorized Tags: PMO
by Donna Fitzgerald | September 12, 2009 | Comments Off
I just read an interesting quote that said centralized PMOs experienced a higher degree of PPM maturity than decentralized PMOs. Yep, that’s absolutely true and NOPE it doesn’t mean that if you centralize your PMO you will instantly become more mature. It means that at least up until 2009, centralization itself was linked to maturity. [...]
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Category: PMO PPM Summit Tags: EPMO, PPM Maturity, PPM Summit
by Donna Fitzgerald | August 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
As I mentioned in my post on July 18th we’ll be using Twitter as a way to communicate at the PPM Summit in September. I thought is was time to give everyone who’s coming a gentle nudge that it’s time to set up your twitter account and experiment a little so that you’re comfortable using it [...]
Category: PPM Summit Technology Tags: PPM Summit, Technology, Twitter
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
Turns out we are going to be using twitter and live polling all through the conference. Hear the fire crackers and horns sound in celebration. I’m so excited that I’ve planned both mediums into my panel discussion. So given all my prior entries commenting that PMs are probably the most Luddite group on the planet [...]
Category: PPM Summit Technology Tags: PPM Summit, Twitter
