Archive for July 2007

“So you knew the right thing to do, yet you failed to act. Why was that?”
“I was afraid I’d lose my job.”

I’ve had the above conversation dozens of times, and it’s always frustrated and confused me. Why would you want to keep a job which forces you to behave contrary to your beliefs? [...]

PROJECT MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES
TO AVOID CAREER LIMITING MOVES – PART 3 of 3
Jeff Schlageter
President, Project Acceleration
Jeff@ProjectAcceleration.com
Wouldn’t it be great to have a list of project management “best practices” that would help you benefit from the experiences of hundreds of other program managers? In a way, these best practices would be like having your own project [...]

PROJECT MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES
To AVOID CAREER LIMITING MOVES – PART 2 of 3
Jeff Schlageter
President, Project Acceleration
Jeff@ProjectAcceleration.com
Wouldn’t it be great to have a list of project management “best practices” that would help you benefit from the experiences of hundreds of other program managers? In a way, these best practices would be like having your own project [...]

PROJECT MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES
TO AVOID CAREER LIMITING MOVES -
PART 1 of 3
Jeff Schlageter
President, Project Acceleration
Jeff@ProjectAcceleration.com
 
Wouldn’t it be great to have a list of project management “best practices” that would help you benefit from the experiences of hundreds of other program managers? In a way, these best practices would be like having your own project management [...]

Over the past few years we have seen a significant shift in business ethics. For some managers it is deemed acceptable to “bend the legal rules” as long as it ultimately benefits the company. This ethical system, often called teleological ethics, is being embraced by many managers and executive today when placed under pressure to [...]

Jim Sloane raised very interesting points in his “Why Can’t We Grow Up” blog about project management maturity. One in particular is keeping me awake at night:

Organizations in Silicon Valley can integrate virtually any technology into a myriad of applications, and still we struggle with integrating talented individuals into teams of people spanning countries, generations etc.
Here’s something more consider — did you [...]

I am shocked, shocked! at silicon valley business immaturity in project management . Home of some of the greatest, innovative companies on the planet, and we cannot execute projects any better than anyone else.

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You can implement effective and efficient practices to align your projects with organizational strategic goals.  How?  Come to the PMI Silicon Valley Chapter evening meeting July 16th at Michaels at Shoreline in Mountain View.  Cutoff date for Advanced Registration online at www.pmisv.org is today, 07/11/2007.
Hints:  my talk on this subject with help you focus, break loops, [...]

So what is the result? Today, usually only one team member has spoken directly with a customer, and this understanding isn’t typically captured in written form anyplace to share with the rest of the product development team members. So when a technical tradeoff needs to be made, there is a 50/50 likelihood that the tradeoff [...]

Agile project team values and their embodiment in actual practice are highly subject to personal interpretation on the parts of practitioners, and thus necessarily suffer criticism for its wide-ranging variety of acceptable variations, all claiming to be agile. So a significant percentage of projects that claim to be agile, yet not adopting all of the [...]

Mark you calendar for Monday, July 16, 2007 to go to Michael’s at Shoreline in Mountain View, CA.  That evening I will present “Aligning Projects with Strategy” for the PMI Silicon Valley monthly chapter meeting  (www.pmisv.org).
This presentation is not meant to frustrate project managers with a high level approach that only those in upper managerment [...]