Leadership - Silicon Valley Project Management

Back To The Future

A while ago I was asked to take the position of QA manager of a product line that had run […]

By Sam Hahn / June 7, 2008

Probably everyone accepts that a business rarely has the same priorities during an extended period when performance objectives apply, whether

By Sam Hahn / June 5, 2008

There’s been an oft-repeated observation that there’s a high incidence of classically trained musicians in the software industry. I’ve seen

By Josh / June 5, 2008

Dave Garrett recently wrote on the concepts expressed by Aaron Shanhar in his book, Reinventing Project Management. The gist is

By Sam Hahn / June 3, 2008

40 years ago this December, something extraordinary was offered to us. It became known as the “mother of all demos”

By Steve Mezak / May 28, 2008

Offshoring of software development is written off by some as not workable. Many have shared offshoring nightmares and horror stories

By Steve Mezak / May 27, 2008

The programming press and IT journals are full of stories about the failure of software outsourcing. The statistics are sobering.

By Jim Carras / May 27, 2008

PMO Symposium 2008: November 9-11, 2008 to be held in San Antonio, Texas at the Hyatt Regency Hotel located on

By Mike Taylor / May 22, 2008

What is a Project Charter? The project charter, sometimes also called a Project Overview Statement (POS), is the signed document

By Mike Taylor / May 20, 2008

Most project managers find that they when they complete the planning of a project they become inundated in the following

A great way to establish a sense of urgency around the priority work and to produce a way to celebrate