Articles on Project Management

This is a guest post from Christine Sato Proper risk management is vital to any project manager. Any big project is sure to have a great deal of risk,

Without proper change management, any transformation you undertake is doomed to failure.

How long have you been looking for that 'perfect' system? You know....the project management 'system' that will be your savior. Or the governance process

That’s the magic and mystery of 1%. Don’t ignore it because its small. Don’t overlook it due to its size. 1% is small and large at the same time.

I just ran across an interesting research report titled "Doomed from the Start? Why a majority of business and IT teams anticipate their software

You've probably heard the old saying that "Hope isn't a strategy". I've written a few words on the topic of Strategy, Tactics and Hope in the past and

A few months ago, I wrote a post titled How project management made me a better trader/investor where i talk about my experience and skills learned from

This is a guest post by Aren Cambre. Aren is a manager of web technologies at an educational institution. The way he explains it is, “If the web site

Last week, David Aponovich from ISITE Design wrote a nice piece titled Avoiding the CMS Death Spiral on ISITE's CMS Myth blog. If you don't know who ISITE

I just saw an announcement that the Project Management Institute has a new Project Management Certification for Agile that they are piloting now (hat tip

Neil Pearce just published a very nice piece titled "It is all about The Customer". Go read it. In the article, Neil argues that IT needs to focus on

Are you ready to accept failure?  Can you live with yourself if you don't succeed? When I was growing up, winning was a big thing.  You won or lost. You

I've recently moved back into the world of trading stocks and options.  Most of what I'm doing is small stuff but I'm enjoying it and making some money.

Shim Marom wrote a nice piece titled Project Management – Technique or Discipline? where he asks a question that's been gnawing at me for some time. That

A few months ago I wrote a post titled Cognitive Dissonance & IT. From that post, you'll remember that cognitive dissonance is: an uncomfortable

I recently submitted a paper to be considered for an academic conference on the topic of IT Project Management. The conference uses a double-blind review

I'm in a quandary these days. As some of you may know, I'm working on my Doctorate in Information Systems. In addition, I have a full-time gig in the

This is a guest post from Elliot Ross.   Elliot blogs about business technology issues for non-technology managers in the small to medium enterprise.

I'm continuing my research into Knowledge Management practices and principles within the project world.   Currently still in literature review mode and

Kristen over at Cheetah Learning, one of the best Project Management Training groups out there sent me a link to this YouTube video.....I love it! Why do

My good friend, and partner at CIOEssentials.com,  Gene Delibero asks a few interesting questions in a post titled "Certification: No Guarantee of

Linda Tucci wrote an interesting article on Total CIO titled "PMO becomes cornerstone of IT executive leadership" that got my attention. The title is a

I've got a few pet peeves.  Linear Thinking is one of them.  Another one is talking about doing something but never doing it. I'm not talking about 'not

Intuition vs. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Some Rough Ideas by Bob Sutton on Bob Sutton - Work Matters CIO and the Art of Decision Making by Arun

Here's the latest version of my storytelling for knowledge management in projects presentation.  Enjoy! Recorded Presentation via Vimeo: Storytelling,

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Do you know the full

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Are you agile? I'm

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Earlier this week, I

Image by Frédéric Harper via Flickr I'm coming up on 2 years of working with Sitecore, a .NET Content Management System (see my post titled "Some Thoughts

As part of a research project for my doctorate work I've been looking at the use of storytelling for knowledge sharing in project teams. I've found the

I hope everyone out there is reading Glenn Whitfield's great blog IT Business Alignment (IT2B).  I'll wait for you while you jump over and check out

An article titled "How I Used Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Software to Prevent IT Staff Cuts" on CIO.com that describes using Project Portfolio

Mark your calendars! The 3rd annual University of Texas at Dallas Project Management Symposium is taking place August 13 & 14.  Call for papers is

I had the pleasure of watching a demo of Clarizen today.  Well...watching isn't right...I was watching as Gil Heiman, Director of Community at Clarizen,

Me on Sitecore (from a Sitecore Press Release): “We needed to move into a CMS to gain content management capabilities as well as easily host and manage

This post is an excerpt (with slight modifications) of a recent paper titled “Project Selection using Decision Support Optimization Tools.” If you’d like

Steve Neiderhauser posted some excellent commentary in a blog post titled "Persuasion Equation".  In the post, Steve mentions a class he attended that

A recent article by J Schwan at The Technology Edge titled "Stop Hiding Behind your Role and Get it Done" has an interesting spin on the world of

David Daly over at Outside the Triangle recently posted a listing of "Great Websites for Project Managers"...and I was surprised to a link to my blog on

I've had a book review published in the latest PMI Information Technology & Telecom Newsletter (download the PDF here).  You'll find my book review on

Would you rather have one great big idea or tons of little ideas? Me?  I'm fond of having a lot of little ideas. Why?  Little ideas are easier to

As mentioned here and here, I presented a paper titled "Project Management and the Stockholm Syndrome" at the 2nd Annual University of Texas at Dallas

Just a reminder...the 2nd Annual University of Texas Project Management Symposium is today and tomorrow (August 18 & 19). Yours truly will be

CIO.com has an interview with Linus Torvalds that I'd just had to share...very interesting commentary from Linus on managing software projects. In the

Timothy Johnson takes a swipe at methodologies in his post titled "Worshipping the Hammer".  To be more accurate, he takes a swipe at those people who

I was reminded this past weekend by Bruce Henry that I sometimes push "publish" much too quickly on a blog post. Go read my post titled "Leadership and

Recently, while reading a book on Organizational Change and Project Management, I noticed a disturbing pattern. The book I was reading discusses the

I was browsing the local Half Price Books and noticed a book titled "The Program Management Office: Establishing, Managing And Growing the Value of a PMO"

I've been holding off on this announcement until I finished the paper (mainly to make sure I actually finished it!). I'll be speaking at University of

One thing that I've heard often is that a project manager role is a good thing for your career and will help your ascent up the ladder to more

I just finished reading The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership by Jack Ferraro....not a bad book. In section two of his

Interesting story in the Wall Street Journal's Business Technology Section titled "Keeping it Simple Pays for a Champion Coder". The article points to the

This post is an excerpt of a recent paper titled "Improving Knowledge in Projects."

Over the last few years I've started noticing a trend toward specialization within the field of project management. These specializations seem to break

Timothy Johnson, author of the Carpe Factum blog (great blog...check it out), had an interesting St. Patrick's Day post titled "The Luck of the Irate"

I've been reading up on knowledge management topics (due to one of my classes being "Knowledge Management") and have found that there is a nice subset of

As some of you may know, I've talked about agile methodologies in software development in previous blog posts (see links below). The topic of Agile

I've been a little quite lately due to being extremely busy with the Boy Scouts of America. We recently migrated the main site from a flat file HTML

90% of the work is completed in 10% of the time....the remaining 10% of the effort is completed in 90% of the scheduled time. I've heard of the 80/20

I just finished reading "Reinventing Project Management" by Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir and I have to say that I really enjoyed this book. The full

I'm always amazed how to hard it is for some people/firms to understand that communication is a major reason for project success or failure. For example,

Organization Alignment seems like one of those 'touchy feely' things that most technical folks would rather not discuss but it's actually quite relevant

First off...let me answer the question: Does it matter if I use Agile or Waterfall methodologies in my project? My opinion is no...it doesn't matter...but

Billy McCafferty over at Devlicio.us just published a short blog post titled "Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development" that contains some excellent

Tridenta is a Dallas based IT consulting company who recently started a blog....and so far, it looks like they've started out on the right foot. I've been

A case study on using agile project management methods to deliver a software product in half the time at less than half the cost.

MS Project has become an industry standard for project planning and I think it has value for a project manager, but a project manager should not rely on

The April 2007 Harvard Business Review has an article by Steelcase CEO James P. Hackett titled "Preparing for the Perfect Product Launch" that discusses

It's been quite a while since I've been impressed with a Microsoft product, but I will say that Project Server 2007 has impressed me. In addition to

It seems like an eternity since I've posted something here but its only been three weeks. I've been busy getting settled into a new job...I'm now working

Mindjet is hosting a webinar about Service-Oriented Project Management with Jerry Manas on March 7, 2007. More information is available at the Mindjet

Many other bloggers (Hal Macomber for one) have already discussed this report, but I wanted to say a quick word about it as well. The report, from the

One of the most important things a leader can do (if not the most important) is to ensure that their organization executes the appropriate plans/actions

Mike Griffiths has a great post about Agile Project Leadership worth checking out. An excerpt worth sharing is: Management is concerned with mastering the

I've recently decided to stop calling myself a Project Manager and start calling myself a Manager of Projects.There is a difference as I hope you will see

In my post titled "Earned Value Management - The next "buzzword" I belittled Earned Value Management (EVM)...and now its time to eat some crow, although

Brad Appleton has a great list of resources listed on his blog. The list, titled Lean Software Development Resources provides links to a ton of books,

Question: Want to know one of my pet peeves (hint: re-read the title of this post)? Answer: Linear Thinking (Books on Linear Thinking). What is linear

Spent some time today reading over some Agile Project Management blogs and articles and found the Agile Manifesto. The "Principles behind the Agile

Until reading Jerry Manas' white paper titled "Service Oriented Project Management" (SOPM) I had never heard this term before (have I been hiding under a

Stephen Seay has a great write-up of the roles within projects in his post titled Project Roles and Responsibilities. Stephen's descriptions are succinct

Projects@Work has a new article titled "(L)earned Value" that discusses the 'new trend' of implementing Earned Value Management (EVM) systems for use

Just finished reading an interesting article by Dragan Milosevic and Sabin Srivannaboon in the August 2006 edition of PMI's PM Journal titled "A

Just ran across this great Project Management Glossary maintained by Dave Wagner over at the MBA FAQ website. It has short succinct definitions of the

The Center for Business Practices (CBP) released their "State of Project Management 2006" survey (view PDF version here) or go to this URL:

I've been reading Eliyahu Goldratt's book Critical Chain and am quite intrigued with the application of Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (TOC) to Project

According to Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, Project Portfolio Management (PPM) should be something that every project manager should embrace...and I agree.

I just ran across a post by Michael Krigsman titled "Eight Causes of IT Project Failure". According to a recent report from the UK National Audit office

This is an excerpt of a paper I wrote while working on my MBA. To read the entire article, download the PDF titled "Strategic Project Management."