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,

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.

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

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

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.

As many of my regular readers know, I've been known to say (and write) that I don't like process for process sake.  Of course, a good process is a good

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

Cognitive Dissonance has been defined on Wikipedia as an "uncomfortable tension caused by holding contradictory thoughts simultaneously". A similar

Image by holeymoon via Flickr CRM tools do not equal CRM (yes...I know...I've said it twice...but it IS important). For the geeks out there, let me spell

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

"I hate consultants." When I heard those words spill out of my lunch companion's mouth as soon as we sat down, I knew it would be a long lunch meeting.

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

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. A few months ago, I

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. Innovation. That's a

Skilled or Gifted by Stephen Gillett on The Guild CIO Hire People Who Disagree with You by John Baldoni on HarvardBusiness.org Project Management: Is PMP

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

Customers sometimes do not know what they want by Matt Rhodes on FreshNetworks Blog Mistakes matter: post-project reviews by Elizabeth Harrin on Project

The Case for Customer Communities by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent Tap Employee Passion by Harry Hoover on THINKing Accountability Begins at the

The High Priests of IT - And the Heretics by Cory Doctorow on HarvardBusiness.org Thank you, Jack Welch by Mike Neiss on The Tom Peters Weblog Innovation,

For those that haven't heard the news, I accepted a full-time position with the Boy Scouts of America in February.  I work for the Brand Management

I received an email a few weeks ago asking if I would be interested in reviewing the new book from Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan titled "the three laws of

Help IT Run a Less-Risky Business by Susan Cramm on HarvardBusiness.org Why Social Media Will Not Get You A Job In A Recession by Jason Falls on Social

Oracle's Profit magazine has a nice article titled "The Go Betweens: Ten Tips for Connecting Information Technology with the Business" has some excellent

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,

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

How Hard Could it Be?: My Style of Servant Leadership by Joel Spolsky on Inc.com Project Management, Teams and Success by Raven on Raven's Brain Employee

A new feature here on the blog...Sunday links. Look for 5 to 10 interesting links every Sunday. The Four Dharmas of Project Management by Bas de Baar -

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

The latest edition of CIO Magazine has an interesting article titled "Power from Your People" written by Karan Sorenson, VP & CIO at Johnson &

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

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

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

A comment left by Raven on my post titled "Is Perfect Worth It?" led me to her post titled "Personal Growth Article: The 3 P’s: Perfectionism,

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

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

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

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

A candid rant about broken recruiting practices, recycled blog content, and overhyped business books — honest frustrations and notes to organizations.

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

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."