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 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 | 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 | February 15, 2010 | 5 Comments
One of the topics I had planned to spend more time discussing in 2010 is change management. I found this quote today that I think offers a nice perspective on one element of change management ”It’s called the culture buffer because you have to put effort in to get past it and break through. It’s [...]
Category: PMO Program Management Tags: Change Management
by Donna Fitzgerald | January 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
I’ve been working away on my slides for the Business Process Management conference in March and the light bulb came on about a tendency I’ve seen in certain work groups over the years. To put it rather bluntly being able to work in chaos really does equal job security. If you can function in the [...]
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by Donna Fitzgerald | October 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
“IT pros always and without fail, quietly self-organize around those who make the work easier, while shunning those who make the work harder, independent of the organizational chart.” Found this quote in a ComputerWorld article a friend sent me (http://tinyurl.com/lm9yb7). While the entire article is well worth reading this one sentence seemed to pertain to [...]
Category: PMO Program Management Tags: Career Development, Mentoring, Servant Leadership
by Donna Fitzgerald | October 2, 2009 | Comments Off
I was writing a review at Amazon this morning and I noticed that a book review I had written a couple of months ago had been listed as unhelpful. The book is good, I said it was good and yet someone didn’t like what I said. Ok, I can live with that. Since I have [...]
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Category: Book Reviews Program Management Tags: Difficult People, Leadership, Power
by Donna Fitzgerald | September 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
I was just reviewing a presentation for a client and the light bulb just went on. The presentation discussed the common problem with having too many projects that don’t actually further the strategy and the presentation seemed to imply that this was a process compliance issue. I can understand their perspective. Layout the steps and [...]
Category: PMO Program Management Tags: Leadership, Shared Vision
by Donna Fitzgerald | September 29, 2009 | Comments Off
Mumble, mumble, mumble. Life has been busy in Gartner Land and that means that somethings (like cross posting to my personal blog) have had to slide. Not sure why I decided to take 10 minutes and post something yesterday but I’m glad I did. Turned out I’d been hacked. Yeh, I was stupid (I hadn’t [...]
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Category: PMO Program Management Technology Tags: Murphy, Rsk Management
by Donna Fitzgerald | September 28, 2009 | Comments Off
I found this on Glen Alleman’s Herding Cats blog and it was simply too good to not reprint in its entirety People, Processes, and Technology People, Process, and Technology is a common management consultant set of “pitches.” I’m here to say it’s in that order. And the order steps down in logarithmic. Meaning Processes is [...]
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Category: PMO Program Management Tags: People, PMO, Program Management, Project Management
