ITIL QUALIFICATIONS: Agreement reached between APMG, BCS-ISEB & EXIN on ITIL exams
January 29, 2007
PRESS RELEASE: APM Group (Versions of this Press Release in French and Spanish are attached) The APM Group (APMG), the specialist accreditation and certification organisation which has assumed the role of official ITIL accreditor for OGC, is delighted... Read more...
01/29/07 Tip of the Week. Sales Process: Tip 10 - Conduct formal loss reviews.
January 29, 2007
Many sales organizations review losses to determine what went wrong, why the sale was lost, and what could have been done differently. Too often, however, these reviews are informal and tend to summarily brush off the details with little interest in identifying... Read more...
Open Space Conferences - Self Organization In Action
January 29, 2007
I'm going to my first Open Space conference - the Agile Open Northwest Conference in Portland, Oregon.As I understand it, the idea with Open Space events is to let the attendees self-organize the sessions and topics by voting with their feet.So if I wanted... Read more...
Episode 029 - Project Budgets
January 29, 2007
Recently, I had a very fun and informative discussion with Elizabeth Harrin, author of the book Project Management In The Real World, and very cool blog, A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects, which I will be sharing with you all on today’s episode.... Read more...
Week 21 (Building a PMO) - Reporting part 2
January 28, 2007
So, last week I talked about Just in time reporting – getting the information to the right people while it’s “hot.” This week, I want to talk about getting the right information there. This can be tricky! There are some serious pitfalls. There... Read more...
Agile Leadership Pattern: Project Obituary Exercise
January 28, 2007
Try this exercise with your team to identify, overcome, and avoid potential project “gottchas”. Get the team to write a project obituary; ask them to imagine the project is nearly over and has failed; their job for the next 45 minutes is to describe... Read more...
Update on PMI Dinner Talk ‘Agile Project Leadership”
January 28, 2007
My last two posts outlined a talk I was preparing for the Calgary PMI chapter. The presentation went well, the event was full at 125 people and the audience was very receptive to the message. This was pretty much expected, as nothing was meant to be confrontational.... Read more...
The two faces of demand management
January 28, 2007
As I continue my journey through the terminology difficulties of modern IT management, one issue that keeps coming up (as recently as this week's IQPC IT Governance conference, where I spoke) is the question, What is Demand Management? There are actually... Read more...
Miscellaneous news about processes…
January 27, 2007
- Even if you are not necessarily a military fan, it is evident that DoD (US Department of Defense, may be the bigger worldwide purchaser ) plays an important role in definition of standards, in rationalization of IT. (Cals, Step, CMMI, ...). This... Read more...
Again, some KM questions…
January 27, 2007
- Is KM enabling more automated decisions? This "old", very good level and still stimulating article on "nonsense of KM", can bring some ideas, with good thinking about what is really tacit knowledge, and a synthesis of a lot of point of views. Nice commentary... Read more...