4 Key Takeaways From A London Conference
Posted by on Jun 18, 2013 in PMChat Bloggers | 0 comments
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will have noticed my tweets last week came from the Business Process Management Europe Conference in London. It was co-located with the Enterprise Architecture Europe Conference and expertly hosted by IRM UK . It’s a long time since I’ve been to a conference and my expectations of both the speakers and content were high. There were around 250 attendees representing 30 or more countries and many have blogged about their experience. Rather than taking you through the conference, its content and highlights from the various speakers I heard, I thought I’d share my 4 key takeaways. While they won’t surprise you they should confirm you’re either on the right track when it comes to influencing and delivering change or that some course correction is well overdue. Half way through the conference I was hearing a definite theme – the buck stops with Senior Management. For the sake of typing I’m using ‘Senior Management’ collectively to include Executives, C-level and up
Read MorePrueba de capacidad de hacer multitarea
Posted by on Jun 14, 2013 in PMChat Bloggers | Comments Off
Fuera de lo acostumbro poner en el blog, ahora prongo un test que me fue sugerido por Magaret Meloni La idea es ayudar a identificar que tan capaces somos de hacer multitasking. El test es muy rápido y se puede ejecutar aqui: Created by http://Open-Site.org
Read MoreThe Business Analyst: An IT Project Manager’s Best Friend!
Posted by lward on Jun 3, 2013 in PMChat Bloggers, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Let me ask you this: Where would Batman be without Robin? Dolce without Gabanna? And Homer without Marge? Up S _ _ _’s creek without a paddle, that’s where. In fact, that’s the same creek many IT Project Managers find themselves “up” if they don’t have Business Analysts on their team. Why? Because a professional Business Analyst is there to make sure the requirements have been gathered, modeled, understood, tested, tested and tested some more, traced, verified and validated.
Read MoreProjects Take a Community….to Succeed and to Fail
Posted by Eileen on May 23, 2013 in PMChat Bloggers | Comments Off
By Eileen Strider In the world of projects, organizations reward project managers for success and punish them for failure, as if the project manager was solely responsible for either. As a project manager, you know this perspective is both a trap and a myth. Projects don’t succeed or fail based only on the actions of the project manager. A project manager’s skills are certainly important. Having project management expertise, training, communication skills, a good head on your shoulders and a healthy dose of courage are valuable assets. And if you have these, then you know the entire project community can either support or sink a project. The people who directly work on the project are viewed as “The Project Team” with the project manager as their leader.
Read MoreInvestment in project leadership skills declines…from an already low point
Posted by lward on May 13, 2013 in PMChat Bloggers, Uncategorized | Comments Off
A couple of weeks ago I raised the following question: Is the lack of project leadership training the reason we are still struggling with projects? Many responded with some very interesting insights. In this post I present data clearly showing that, despite organizations’ complaining about the apparent lack of leadership skills, that investments in soft skills training, and training generally, is on a disturbing decline. First, a little background. For the past three years, ESI has conducted its annual Global State of the PMO Survey. In year two, we asked the respondents (> 3,000 responded) to tell us where their organization was investing in their development. We categorized respondents into two camps: those that work directly for the PMO, and those who are influenced by the PMO but do not report directly into it
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