events Archive
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PMO Symposium 2010 – Virtual Integrated PMO Presentation
Posted on November 5, 2010 | No CommentsFor those who will be at the Project Management Institute’s PMO Symposium 2010 in Dallas, I’ll be presenting on The Virtual Integrated PMO on Tuesday, November 9th at 3pm. The concept of a “Virtual Integrated PMO” is gaining wider recognition as three parallel trends have emerged:... -
IT Team Simulation
Posted on December 10, 2009 | No CommentsUniv of Texas team demonstrates their ability to adapt to business scenarios, understand the situation, and frame up recommendations that move the client on positive path forward. These simulations are good for students and IT professionals in the workforce to refine their skills in a... -
Real-Time Project Events: Your Buns are Cooked
Posted on June 9, 2009 | No CommentsHere’s creative use of twitter for business. Think about the event-driven project, real-time status, and transparency. … … “All of the baker’s followers get a Twitter alert to tell them that it’s bun-time. Or bread time. Or whatever. ” … Via Baker Tweet: Tweet What’s... -
Cisco Telepresence for Your Next Virtual Project Event
Posted on May 30, 2008 | No CommentsBring the project team to your next event via telepresence … -
Project Team Event: Museum Field Trip
Posted on October 17, 2007 | No CommentsHere’s an interesting museum you can take your virtual team to. See any familiar items? … Pocket Protector Collection -
Project Lessons from Napoleon at National Summit on Project Excellence
Posted on June 12, 2007 | No CommentsFor those interested, I’ll be delivering the keynote on day two (July 26th) at this year’s National Summit on Project Excellence for Government, hosted by The Performance Institute, a private, nonpartisan think tank for excellence in government. The topic will be Criteria for Successful Project... -
Vendor Management: Balanced Feedback Necessary for Healthy Relationship
Posted on April 7, 2007 | No CommentsDrive a vendor relationship through honest feedback with balanced perspective – the good and the bad. … … “the generic response is a public, we are very happy and content, or that was great followed by private discussions on just what a disaster the product,... -
Event Map: Mind Map Technique
Posted on January 10, 2007 | No CommentsNifty approach to mapping events using mind-map model … Inputs are converging factors and outputs are diverging consequences. Think project go-live events, product launch, etc. … … “Many business people are primarily concerned with events that change the status quo. This could be launching a... -
Data Security Breach: High Impact Public Event
Posted on December 13, 2006 | No CommentsUCLA deals with painful security event in open, transparent way. The security investigation shows that the security breach was exploited to seek Social Security numbers and started as early as October 2005. The university has established a website specifically to handle this event. … …... -
Extreme Project Management: Reality Rules
Posted on November 14, 2006 | No CommentsI just finished reading Doug DeCarlo’s book, Extreme Project Management. I met Doug at a recent PMI event we both presented at. Not only is his keynote presentation a crowd pleaser (hint: he plays the drums to illustrate the pace of a typical project and...
