Donna Fitzgerald

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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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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