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I just read an interesting question on the PMChat group of Linkedin. If you are writing a project management blog and you have someone ghost write for you (in other words, you’re passing off so... Posted in: Wisdom of the Crowd
I have just read of Responsive Project Management. As far as I could tell, this is an approach wherein risks were mitigated without regard to impact. Is anyone aware of this as a discipline?... Posted in: Wisdom of the Crowd
My new CTO (my boss) just told me that project management and matrix organizations are "so 80's" and didn’t work, so should - and are - going away. (We’re a product-driven... Posted in: Wisdom of the Crowd
I would like to hear some stories about team members or execs that you have had to deal with or are currently dealing with who have been very resistant to change to an Agile methodology.... Posted in: Wisdom of the Crowd
Half a trillion dollars.
That's a lot of money -a lot of projects - and clearly a lot of opportunity for project managers.
And that is the amount of money (about 3 trillion yuan) t... Posted in: People, Planet, Profits & Projects
Your PMO is how many hundred people?
We don't worry about innovation, we alwayshave great products!
Your all day status meetings have a greatsupply of donuts!
Our PMO is a... Posted in: Project Navigator
In this nifty article from this past Sunday's Boston Globe, you can read about several companies in the Boston area and the projects they've initiated to harness the power of microbes.... Posted in: People, Planet, Profits & Projects
Continuing with the theme of Green IT, a consortium of major colleges in the Boston, including Boston University (where I am have currently developed and am teaching a course in Green IT), Harvard,... Posted in: People, Planet, Profits & Projects
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