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More Fun with Project Actual Costs
A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time figuring out how actual costs were calculated within Microsoft Project. That ended up being a series of 3-4 blogs posts, which I felt captured the meat of the discussion. Well, over … Continue reading
Benefits Realization, Nonstrategic PMOs, and the V Model
The recent PMO Symposium presented a fantastic source of ideas and concepts that I am still mentally digesting. As part of that digestion process, I am turning some of my thoughts into blog posts – and probably at some point … Continue reading
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Portfolio Analysis: Prioritizing Projects with Custom Fields
Well, it’s been a while since I fired up my virtual image and played around in the Portfolio Analysis module – specifically since March or so when I released that white paper on the topic. Last week, one of my … Continue reading
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Managing Change At The Wrong Level (Part VI)
In previous posts in this series, I talked about how change management is rightly stratified throughout the organization and how each change management process shares certain, very specific structures. In this post, I’d like to wrap that up by looking … Continue reading
Managing Change At The Wrong Level (Part V)
In this, (almost) the denouement of my little series that grew out of the PMO Symposium presentation I gave this week, I’d like to talk about what happens if change management isn’t managed at the appropriate level. Going back to … Continue reading
Managing Change At The Wrong Level (Part IV)
Let’s stop right now and start looking at a concrete (albeit contrived) example of change management… All of the top managers of an organization gather together and identify that their sales are too geographically limited. Perhaps most of their sales … Continue reading
Managing Change At The Wrong Level (Part III)
So far in this little series, we’ve identified a few common elements shared throughout the organization: the problem sensing apparatus and the supply/demand modeling apparatus. What do you get when you take a whole bunch of problems and try to … Continue reading
Managing Change At The Wrong Level (Part II)
So now we’ve identified a couple common elements in change management, specifically the Problem Sensing mechanism that exists in all change management operations, whether they be the IT application change management decision process, the strategic change management office, or even … Continue reading
Managing Change At The Wrong Level (Part I)
Blogging for me is as much an exercise in developing content for the community as it is an aid for me to define and develop my own scattered thoughts. For the next couple of posts, I plan to engage in … Continue reading