by Donna Fitzgerald | August 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve been doing my imitation of a headless chicken recently so it was only this morning that I had a chance to sit down and go through my god-son’s pictures from his summer program in Japan. Let me begin by saying that I’ve never been to Japan. 6 years ago when we supposed to go, [...]
Category: PMO Technology Tags: Collaboration, Geographically disbursed teams, Leadership
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 | August 15, 2009 | Comments Off
Just a few minutes ago I posted an entry about using Twitter at the PPM Summit in September. When I was checking that my links worked I realized that Twitter was down. Being an analyst by inclination and by job title I immediately went out to the web to find out where this was a [...]
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Category: Technology Uncategorized Tags: Technology, Twitter
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
by Donna Fitzgerald | June 13, 2009 | Comments Off
I had a couple of those “you can’t win for losing” moments this week. In the early part of the week I was discussing the role of twitter as an effective tool in a PPM Managers toolbox with one of my peer groups and got told, rather politely, that I was out of my mind. [...]
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Category: Technology Tags: Communication, technology adoption
by Donna Fitzgerald | June 3, 2009 | 2 Comments
I guess it’s time to turn myself in. Despite the existence of this column and the existence of my personal blog I’ve never been truly sold on the idea Blogs. In my mind Blogs are single author commentaries on a subject of the author’s choice and it seems to me I already do that for [...]
Category: PMO Program Management Technology Tags: Geographcially disbursed teams, Technology
by Donna Fitzgerald | May 19, 2009 | Comments Off
I was looking for something on the web. I think it was tips on how to be better organized if you’re right brained and think stack technology refers to the tower of papers on your desk. Anyway I ultimately ended up somewhere else entirely and saw something I actually thought might be useful to my fellow program [...]
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Category: Program Management Technology Tags: Program Management, Twitter
by Donna Fitzgerald | April 6, 2009 | 4 Comments
12 years ago in July I was at Project World DC presenting a paper on the “Internet: Great Tool or Terrible Trap”. The point of the presentation was to encourage all PMs to actually invest the time and effort to build a web site for their project and to use it as a way to [...]
Category: Technology Tags: Collaborative tools, technology adoption
