2005 September | PMToolbox :: Tools and Resources for Project Management

Events

September 30, 2005

A nearly universal element of EPM (enterprise project management) deployments is the implementation of custom business processes. Each organization has their own methodology for proposing projects, asking for resources to fund or staff a project,... Read more...

Fraudster gadget at Bank ATM

September 29, 2005

A team of organized criminals are installing equipment on legitimate bank ATM's in at least 2 regions to steal both the ATM card number and the PIN. The team sits nearby in a car receiving the information transmitted wirelessly over weekends and evenings... Read more...

Landed a book deal w/Elsevier

September 25, 2005

Longtime readers of this blog know that I started it with the goal of writing a book. Well, after two years, the strategy seems to have worked. I just inked a contract with science publisher Elsevier (via their Morgan Kaufmann subsidiary) to do just that.... Read more...

Q + A

September 24, 2005

I took a quick pass through comments on the blog this morning. Until Beta 1, I am going to focus on responding to platform/infrastructure questions and steer clear of feature questions. Is the PSI backward compatible? Will code written against the PDS... Read more...

Pragmatic view of Project management

September 24, 2005

Does a project charter need to be constructed for every project that is small and usually executed by the organization?Although a project is a unique endeavour there are in some organizations certain project types that are always executed (for example... Read more...

Bitching about White Ants

September 22, 2005

You don’t know they are there until it’s too late.They are the unseen enemy.Each year, the damages caused by this insects are more than the total damages from floods and fires combined.On September 11, 2005, teacher Chan Boon Heng of SRJK (C) Keat... Read more...

Balanced Scorecard for the Unbalanced

September 22, 2005

As requested by my readers, here is a synopsis of Balanced Scorecard.Harvard Business Review published the article “The Balanced Scorecard – Measures That Drive Performance” which was jointly written by Dr. David Norton (the then CEO of Nolan-Norton... Read more...

Demos On My Mind

September 21, 2005

I am back up for air! I just spent the past 7 days and about 100 hours (yes, it was an insane week) pulling together a demo for the P12 Airlift. The Airlift is an event for folks participating in our Technical Adoption Program for P12. You can consider... Read more...

The circular reasoning of Nicholas Carr

September 17, 2005

OK - this is a little belated - but I was reading some CIO magazine back issues, and came across this interview with Nicholas "IT Doesn't Matter" Carr. The light finally went on: the guy has a circular premise. - If it's in IT, it doesn't... Read more...

Convergence of Agile and Lean Six Sigma

September 6, 2005

So, I was studying up a little on Lean Six Sigma and started to think, "This sounds like an Agile take on Six Sigma." Sure enough, Poppendieck is already well down that road... -Charlie Read More →