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Executive Report
Opinion
Perspectives, Passions & Peeves
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5 Tough Integration Questions
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Mark Denchy
(July 21)
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There are a lot of misconceptions about software integration. The concept can be deep enough to evoke hundreds of questions specific to a company’s back-end systems. Here are five common questions that many sales reps dance around, possibly because of either shortcomings in their products or a lack of knowledge on how integration is really implemented.
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Unlearning PM: Play Ball!
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David Schmaltz
(May 19)
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We set out to learn the project management body of knowledge before learning that our projects’ communities are more knowledgeable and capable of guiding us than our earlier indoctrination acknowledged. And that our notions of what it means to play the project management game need some situated experience and a lot of unlearning before they do us much good. Then we start inventing games that work better for us than following the old rules ever did.[more]
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Unlearning PM: The Control Dilemma
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David Schmaltz
(April 21)
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Widely used project control methods often require more maintenance than the systems (and the people) they are intended to control. The pursuit of control becomes more burden than value facilitator. But on real-world projects, independent agents act in ways no closed-loop or anticipatory control mechanism could predict — and often for the better.[more]
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Unlearning Project Management
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David Schmaltz
(March 17)
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In project work, widely accepted fallacies continue to squeeze out effective practice, often by executive edict. Above all, the favored “operations management” approach trivializes the complexity and uncertainty of most projects, creating self-inflicted problems that seriously undermine performance.[more]
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Don’t Mix Roles
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Michael Vinje
(February 18)
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All other things being equal, the better a project’s business case and requirements are analyzed and communicated, the better the overall outcomes. And business analysts, by job definition, are going to fulfill this responsibility better than project managers.[more]
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When the PMO Means Business
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Steve O'Connor
(February 18)
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PMOs can be strategic partners with the business, participating in a collaborative dialogue with stakeholders to apply resources and propose solutions to strategic needs. But heads-down line-of-business executives aren’t likely to initiate that discussion. It requires bolder PMO leadership, backed by the CIO.[more]
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Evidence-Based Leadership
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Quint Studer
(January 14)
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When it comes to leading teams, commonsense tactics can produce uncommonly good results. Here are five recommended best practices from the author of best-seller “Hardwiring Excellence” that can boost morale and improve performance, immediately and over the long term.[more]
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The Flat World Fitness Challenge
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Rudolf Melik
(November 19)
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Does our rapidly flattening world have you rethinking the way you manage people and projects? It should. Now is the time to explore the challenges of doing business in an environment where all the rules have changed. Here are seven obstacles that “old school” companies face in adapting to a project-based planet.[more]
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Agile Program Management: Oversight or Overkill?
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Darren Jerome
(August 20)
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Agile methods assume the best in people, from their knowledge and capabilities to their desire to collaborate in search of the best solution. It also assumes that developers and customers grasp the big picture. Unfortunately this is seldom the case, and why it is so vital that a project manager facilitate structured communication between the team and stakeholders to evaluate specific changes against broader objectives. It’s a fine line.[more]
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Keeping Score
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David Giannetto
(July 16)
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Is your organization using the Balanced Scorecard to measure the success of strategic initiatives and processes? A new book takes on the popular management-by-metrics methodology, deeming it antiquated and insufficient. Here, one of the book's authors puts forward six reasons to consider using a real-time approach, the Performance Power Grid.[more]
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