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Better Management of IT Projects

Or, how to avoid being a statistic….

I read a recent Harvard Business Review “The Daily Stat,” that noted that a study by McKinsey & Company that was reported on in the September 2011 issues of Harvard Business Review noted that 15% of IT change projects are huge money sinks with cost overruns averaging [...]

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Are Your Asking Your Team Members to Build the Project Schedule

Or are you making decisions for them?

When I saw the Dilbert strip below I got quite the chuckle out of it and it brought back some (not so fond) memories of my early years in project management.

Early on in my career (many moons ago!) when I was first getting involved [...]

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The Project Sponsor Just Doesn’t Care…

And the project is going nowhere! HELP!

Here’s a story to consider.

Sam has just been assigned a major project to install and implement a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system within his company. The company has 75 employees and has been in business a number of years. There are sales and marketing folks within [...]

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Yet Another Project Team Meeting

Is anything going to get done!

A friend of mine is involved in a large project for her company. She called me the other night exasperated about a recent team meeting (“Yet another one!” she shouted). The project she was involved in was started three months ago. Since then she has been in meetings [...]

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Project Managers - Are You Getting Involved in the Business of the Company?

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with a client on helping them to get their high potential employees on a path to leadership roles within the business. I noticed that their project managers were not on the “high potential list.” (Mind you I have come up against this situation before.) When I [...]