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WSJ Interview on “The Experience Trap”

FYI, a Wall Street Journal article (“Dangers of Clinging to Solutions of the Past”) based in part on interviews w/ yours truly came out today (link here, page B4 in the paper).  Thanks to… more →

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Project Success Factors - Verzuh Webinar

auchamore wrote 7 months ago: If you haven’t attended Verzuh’s Project Success Factors, you will want to register for … more →

Tags: Margaret's Perspective, Verzuh

Why Projects Succeed: The Movie

Roger Kastner wrote 2 years ago: Why Projects Succeed is a blog series in which Slalom Business Architect Roger Kastner sheds light o … more →

Tags: project management, Change Management, clear business objectives, executive sponsorship, joint accountability, minimized scope and requirements, Risk Management, Roger Kastner, Slalom Consulting

WSJ Interview on "The Experience Trap" — 1 comment

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: FYI, a Wall Street Journal article (“Dangers of Clinging to Solutions of the Past”) base … more →

Tags: Portfolio Management, Knowledge Management, PMO, Performance-Management, organizational change management, People development, Program Management, Complexity, project management

PM Quote of the Day -- Abraham Lincoln — 4 comments

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. This quote … more →

Tags: PMO, project management, PM Quote of the Day, Planning, Preparation, Abraham Lincoln

Podcast on barriers to successful IT/CRM — 2 comments

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: Michael Krigsman over at IT Project Failures hosted the first in what he hopes will be a regular ser … more →

Tags: Troubled Projects, Portfolio Management, implementation costs, IT special interests, organizational change management, IT-Strategy, Program Management, project management, Michael Krigsman

PM Quote of the Day -- Vince Lombardi

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. When I was younger, I never got … more →

Tags: Complexity, implementation costs, Program Management, project management, Quality Management, Risk Management, SAP, PM Quote of the Day, Quality Assurance

Troubled Projects and Engaging Change Stakeholders

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: Glen at Herding Cats (here) points to a Center of Business Practices study (here) on the causes of t … more →

Tags: Troubled Projects, IT special interests, Requirements Management, Program Management, project management, Scope Management, executive sponsor, Glen Alleman, Herding Cats

The Project Management Witch Doctors — 2 comments

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: Glen at Herding Cats hits back hard (here) at one of the breed of ”Project Management Impresar … more →

Tags: PMO, leadership, organizational change management, project management, Glen Alleman, Herding Cats, The Witch Doctors, Management Theories, management fads

Value of PM in Business Transformation

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: I forget to whom I should give the hat tip on this topic, but Here’s a study by Logica that hi … more →

Tags: PMO, Business Case, organizational change management, Program Management, project management, Michael Krigsman, IT Project Failures, business transformation, Lógica

Checklists and Change Programs — 1 comment

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: Jerry Manas’s post at PM Think (here) is a useful reminder to avoid a common error made when P … more →

Tags: PMO, Methodology, organizational change management, Quality Management, Program Management, project management, PM Think, Checklists, process handoffs

Tom Peters: 80% good, 20% overboard — 3 comments

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: Tom Peters has a list on how to lead during what he calls “weird” times (post here, also … more →

Tags: Performance-Management, leadership, organizational change management, Bas de Baar, Tom Peters, Managing in tough times

Corner Cutting Survey Top Answer: Not communicating with senior management — 1 comment

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: Executive body language after cancelling too many meetings The corner cutting poll’s top answe … more →

Tags: Troubled Projects, PMO, Stakeholder Management, communications, leadership, Risk Management, SAP, People development, Program Management

The problem w/ "gold-plating" — 3 comments

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: We had a discussion of gold-plating in project management during my leadership team meeting last wee … more →

Tags: Portfolio Management, implementation costs, IT special interests, Performance-Management, Requirements Management, Program Management, project management, Scope Management, Scope Creep

Perceptions and Stakeholder Management — 1 comment

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: I very much like the sentiments expressed by Claude Emond on the Reforming Project Management blog. … more →

Tags: PMO, Stakeholder Management, communications, Performance-Management, Program Management, project management, Standish Group, Claude Emond, Reforming Project Management

Sustaining the Value of Project Management — 3 comments

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: As promised, I’m going to blog on the Researching the Value of Project Management study that P … more →

Tags: Strategy Management, Portfolio Management, implementation costs, PMO, Performance-Management, Business Case, People development, Program Management, project management

Project debriefs...the Army way

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: Nice post on after-action reviews (AARs, or what we call reviews or debriefs) by Ed Kless at VeraSag … more →

Tags: Troubled Projects, Performance-Management, Quality Management, Turnarounds, Dennis Howlett, project debrief, After Action Reviews, Project Reviews, Knowledge Management

Upgrade tips...what's worse than a modification?

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: I was going through a list of upgrade tip articles collected by Demir Barlas (here) in his SAP Watch … more →

Tags: IT special interests, SAP, Program Management, project management, SAP Upgrades, SearchSAP, Demir Barlas, SAP Watch, Amit Jain

Pressure, Error, and Leading Project Escalations

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago: While we’re on escalated projects it’s a good time to hearken back to Dietrich Dorner … more →

Tags: Troubled Projects, Portfolio Management, PMO, Skills vs. competencies, Stakeholder Management, communications, Performance-Management, leadership, Collaboration

Dialogue -- 4th "D" for Leading Project Escalations — 1 comment

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 years ago:  “AND to be able to explain it …” — Pericles on leadership The great Athenian recognized that … more →

Tags: Troubled Projects, PMO, Skills vs. competencies, Performance-Management, leadership, organizational change management, Turnarounds, People development, Program Management


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