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I think I Nailed It – Commercial World Wants the BA – CHEAP!
Oh yeah, more anecdotal data tells me silicon valley wants SO MUCH MORE for so much less!
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Project Doldrums
Horror Story No. 2: Project Doldrums
It’s budget time. The team is listless – no enthusiasm for the project as no one believes that the product will work. Yet here we drift toward starting a new clinical trial.
The intrepid PM declares a willingness to present a ‘no go’ budget to management – inquiring: “What new data do [...]
Executing Strategy
The global business landscape is littered with expensive, well-intended strategies that don’t deliver value, often because leaders failed to identify and invest in the full range of projects required to support those strategies. Co-author of Executing Your Strategy, Mark Morgan demonstrates what organizational alignment for strategic execution really means and how to engage [...]
Keynote on Creating Excellence
Creating Excellence in/through Project Management means optimizing and achieving greater results from project-based work: realizing a competitive advantage by executing strategy through projects: significant advancements in maturity of people, processes, and the environment of a project-based organization. It involves forming a picture of an ideal environment for implementing projects: and requires an honest assessment of [...]
Is the PMO still relevant?
Michael Hammer, in his initial article on re-engineering, evaluated how work has been organized throughout the past half century. He stated that in the postwar period, entry-level people with basic skills were easy to come by, but experienced professionals were not. As a result, businesses pulled apart work into small, repeatable tasks, and focused information [...]
Aligning Projects with Strategy
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, [...]
Too Much of Too Much…
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 [...]
