As president and CEO of gantthead.com, Dave Garrett is dedicated to creating value for the project management community and to the continued growth of gantthead's media network (gantthead.com, projectsatwork.com, and others), which now reaches over 350,000 Technology Managers Worldwide. His strategic, management and technical expertise has enabled him to guide the gantthead team in the development and refinement of resources that are unmatched in the project management marketplace. Garrett is the project manager for gantthead--a site built for project managers by project managers.
Garrett is the founder of gantthead, launched in March 2000, and has developed it to become the largest dedicated community of IT project managers in the world--and one of the few profitable dot-coms to have made it through the challenging economic environment of the past few years. Prior to gantthead, Garrett led the Knowledge Management function for james martin + co, a leading technology consulting firm. In the mid-'90s, Garrett was the original author of webWAVE, jm+co's commercially available web development process. He has managed a broad range of technical projects and has many years of experience in consulting, as well as in helping businesses build both management and technical strategies. He has authored a number of published articles and speaks at seminars and conferences. Garrett holds a BA from the University of Maryland and an MS from The American University. He is also a member of the PMI IT&T SIG 2007 Board of Directors. You can reach Dave at dave@gantthead.com or through his website: www.gantthead.com. Dave Garrett
As president and CEO of gantthead.com, Dave Garrett is dedicated to creating value for the project management community and to the continued growth of gantthead's media network (gantthead.com, projectsatwork.com, and others), which now reaches over 350,000 Technology Managers Worldwide. His strategic, management and technical expertise has enabled him to guide the gantthead team in the development and refinement of resources that are unmatched in the project management marketplace. Garrett is the project manager for gantthead--a site built for project managers by project managers.
Garrett is the founder of gantthead, launched in March 2000, and has developed it to become the largest dedicated community of IT project managers in the world--and one of the few profitable dot-coms to have made it through the challenging economic environment of the past few years. Prior to gantthead, Garrett led the Knowledge Management function for james martin + co, a leading technology consulting firm. In the mid-'90s, Garrett was the original author of webWAVE, jm+co's commercially available web development process. He has managed a broad range of technical projects and has many years of experience in consulting, as well as in helping businesses build both management and technical strategies. He has authored a number of published articles and speaks at seminars and conferences. Garrett holds a BA from the University of Maryland and an MS from The American University. He is also a member of the PMI IT&T SIG 2007 Board of Directors. You can reach Dave at dave@gantthead.com or through his website: www.gantthead.com. Mind Mapping Resources
A week ago, Christine Sellers started a Mind Mapping gantthead interest group (GIG) and nearly 100 people quickly joined. The group is packed with resource links, so I wanted to share a few of them here with you…
How to use them
10 Tips for Highly Effective Mindmapping Sessions
Applications of MindManager
Mindmapping helps you be creative AND [...]
PPM Software Selection – The Smart Way
I’ve spoken to countless Program Managers, VPs, and Directors involved in selecting PPM software. The vast majority of them have some key drivers in mind, but not much in the way of requirements. They know they have to prioritize projects, manage resources and/or judge ROI more effectively. But beyond that — [...]
Can Using PM Tools Come More Naturally?
Between my blog and my role at gantthead, I probably get two or three meeting requests a week from Project Management tool vendors. The general trends these days (or at least what they punch in demos) seem to be toward:
Software as a Service (making implementation easy and quick)
Portfolio Views and Back End Data Mining Capabilities
General [...]
