Creating the Project Office
Participants in the UCSC Extension advanced course on the “Project Management Office” had ample opportunity to explore their environmental challenges, […]
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Control or Results? How to Manage the Paradox and Achieve Greater Project Results
One critical choice project managers face is between control and results. Managers say they want results but actions speak even
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Inspire…Challenge…Transform: some definitely do it all!
Phil Messina, a project manager at HP, volunteered to document the PMI Norcal Symposium 2008. Here is his report. Randy
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A Letter to Executives
In the PMI NorCal Symposium 2008 just concluded at Stanford University, Esteri Hinman, a Capability Owner at Intel’s Corporate Platform
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Do You Know Where Your Sponsor Is?
Q: I am an architect in an architectural firm with the title of project manager. I can only assume that
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Cutting to the Chase on Organizational Maturity
Jim Sloane is a particularly adept person to provide an executive primer on organizational project management maturity. There are a
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Building Ethically Healthy Organizations
Too often, compliance and ethics training is little more than a rather dull necessity to minimize a company’s likelihood of
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Innovation in Silicon Valley
One input I received while conducting focus groups and interviews about what managers want from the PMI NorCal Symposium 2008
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A Little Help from My Friends…
Two current or former colleagues will join me at the PMI NorCal Symposium 2008 on September 3-4 at Stanford University.
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Learning from Other Project Managers
What can we learn from case studies? Plenty! While Genentech sponsored a risk management initiative a couple years ago to
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How to Become PMO of the Year
As a judge for the PMO of the Year sponsored by the Center for Business Practices, I was impressed by
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