Donna Fitzgerald

“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 the [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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 e (2.71821) less [...]

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“As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.”
                                                                             Peter Drucker
If I had to indentify 2 areas that I believe PPM Leaders will need to increase their focus on in 2010, it would be communications and change management. 
I have adopted [...]

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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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Saw the BBC series called Neverwhere on Netflicks this weekend.  One of the lead characters in the show was named Door and her father was named Portico.  Since I have a brain that tends to make very strange connections, the show left me with an aha moment about the difference between project and program managers.  [...]

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Woke up this morning with one with that answer to something I’ve wondered about for years. Most management books tend to insist that anyone can be a leader and yet on a day to day basis most of us see dozens of situations where those who should be leading aren’t.  The answer to this conundrum [...]

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At the beginning of every summer I generally kick off a discussion with my peers as to what PPM books we’re planning to read during the summer. To be honest the last couple of years it’s seemed that the choices have been few and far between. I’m delighted to say that’s changed this [...]

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