Due to the length of this post, I’ve created a PDF version for those that would like to download it and/or print it out. Click here for the PDF version of Agile Project Management & Product Strategy. Over lunch recently, a good friend and very experienced project manager shared his thoughts on managing software development [...]
A good definition of Strategy
February 21, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This definition is from Rob Millard at the Adventure of Strategy Blog in a recent post. Successful strategy is not about a grand plan. Rather, it is an integrated process that prepares the organization for a range of futures by creating what I have previously called a state of “dynamic resilience.” This involves making smaller [...]
Mike Schaffner: Strategic IT
February 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Mike Schaffner over at the “Beyond Blinking Lights” blog has an interesting post titled “Let’s Get Strategic!” that discusses the need for IT groups to become more strategic. Mike writes: If IT wants to be strategic it has to go beyond just being a order takers and implementers. We need to take the steps necessary [...]
Management of Projects
January 24, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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 the next few paragraphs. I have 11 years experience in managing and delivering services to clients and during this time I gained plenty of project management experience [...]
A review of Drucker’s “They’re not employees; they’re people”
January 18, 2007 By 1 Comment
Alignment of Projects and Strategy
December 28, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Just finished reading an interesting article by Dragan Milosevic and Sabin Srivannaboon in the August 2006 edition of PMI’s PM Journal titled "A Theoretical Framework for Aligning Project Management with Business Strategy" (#1). Srivannaboon also had a similar article published in the December 2006 edition of the PM Journal titled "Linking Project Management with Business [...]
Project Failure
December 7, 2006 By 1 Comment
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 about IT project failures, the following reasons were cited as the top reasons for failure: Lack of clear link between the project and the organization’s key strategic priorities, [...]
Best Buy’s “revolutionary” way of working
December 6, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Prior to reading the new Businessweek (Dec 11th 2006), I ran across Web Worker Daily’s (WWD) post about the article and the way in which Best Buy is “revolutionizing” the workplace with their “Results Oriented Work Environment” (ROWE). First off, thanks to WWD for bringing this article to my attention as it usually takes me [...]
How to handle Layoff’s
December 5, 2006 By Leave a Comment
The Strategic use of Human Resources
July 14, 2006 By 3 Comments
This is an excerpt of a paper I wrote while working on my MBA. To read the entire article, download the PDF “The Strategic use of Human Resources.” One concept that emerged in the late twentieth century that calls for a strategic partnership with HR is the concept called Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM). SHRM [...]
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