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Archives for August, 2009


Adopting Project Portfolio Management – the 3 “Cs”

by Michael Hanford  |  August 27, 2009  |  1 Comment

OK, so you want to get started (or have been told to get started) with project portfolio management. The adoption of portfolio management is an organizational change effort. Such efforts require, typically, a lengthy period of time to succeed; and to judge the impact and effectiveness of the change. They also, typically, require the commitment [...]

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Where Do I Start With IT “Governance”?

by Michael Hanford  |  August 4, 2009  |  1 Comment

A popular question lately is one framed along the lines of: “What are the best practices / a model / the ultimate answer, for me to employ to improve my organization’s IT governance”. Let me say that if I had the “ultimate answer” to better governance in organizations, I would patent it at once; and [...]

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