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 28, 2011 | 5 Comments
I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal purporting to offer leadership advice to young women at the beginning of their career (http://bit.ly/qVTaae) . The only kind thing I can say about the article is that it serves as a very good example of what not to do. Let’s go through the [...]
Category: Project Management Tags: Career Development
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 | September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve been noodling the issue of how much of an impact the younger generation is actually going to make on the workforce and as you might expect I’ve come to a minority conclusion. Most of the prognostication I’ve read are suffering from a fatal flaw. The opinions of high school students and freshly minted graduates [...]
Category: New Normal PMO Project Management Tags:
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 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 [...]
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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 | April 20, 2010 | 14 Comments
I have been asked about the upper limit of Agile Project and Program Management a number of times and it always frustrates me because the people who ask it don’t understand Agile. Now there’s no crime in not understanding Agile PPM. Even among those who claim to understand it — the explanations get so tightly wound around with [...]
Category: Agile Project Management Tags: CAS, Complex Adaptive Systems Theory
