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Leadership and Program Management: Reflections on the PPM Summit

September 21st, 2009 · No Comments

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 a [...]

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Tags: PMO · PPM Summit · Program Management

The Link Between PPM Maturity and Centralization

September 12th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Time to Twitter – A Summit Update

August 15th, 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 [...]

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Twitterific – A New Approach to Discussions at the PPM Summit in September

July 8th, 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 [...]

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