05/22/06 Tip of the Week. Project Rescue: Tip 4 - Admit you have a problem.
Many project organizations continue with failing projects instead of taking action, corrective or termination, early. Often, project managers are skilled at managing project difficulties and have the confidence to think that they can project manage their... Read more...
Episode 001 - Introductions
In today’s podcast, Lee and I explain a little about who we are, how we got into Project Management and our thoughts around what Project Management means to us. We laugh a lot and share what we’re hoping the podcast will be when it grows up. Click... Read more...
Creating an organizational project framework to ensure project sucess
Creating a project framework means defining the infrastructure, processes, organization, and resources for managing a project. Your organization will realize key benefits such as: (1) A basis for project planning, tracking, and communications, (2) An... Read more...
05/15/06 Tip of the Week. Project Rescue: Project Rescue: Tip 3 - Beware of the last mile syndrome.
Often times, project managers fall victim to the “last mile syndrome.” That is, it takes 90 percent of the project time to finish the last 10 percent of the project scope. This can occur for many reasons from poor project requirements and... Read more...
Recorded our first podcast!
Lee and I sat down for our very first official recording session last night. It went great … well, at least we think it turned out great! Still working on our logo and web design - hopefully, we’ll have a little personality showing. In... Read more...
05/08/06 Tip of the Week. Project Rescue: Tip 2 - Recognize early warning signs.
Early warning signs, both good and bad, exist in all projects. Early warning signs can be seen in just about every aspect of the project effort such as the attitudes of the parties involved in the project effort, the performance of infrastructure, systems,... Read more...
Episode 000 - Dina’s Trial by File . . .
Here is the first trial run at a podcast intro. Lee wasn’t available this weekend to record with me so I took a shot at it by myself. It’s a little rough but at least Rem’s intro and extro sounds good! Setting up your website to include... Read more...
Getting back into the saddle
I’m easing back into blogging after taking 6 months off – the good news is this means I’ve got a big backlog of topics… I’d like to start off by thanking Neil Hobson for writing a great two-part overview of System Center Capacity Planner on... Read more...
Capacity challenges
The aggregate supply of computing resources far outstrips the valid demand in many businesses; “considerably less than have of [installed] IT capacity is actually used,” according to the Financial Times, and rates as low as 5-10% are reported. Why... Read more...
We’re almost there!
Things are moving along! The equipment is set up, the intro and extro are recorded (and sound awesome, I may add) and have been doing some practice recordings. I was amazed that our little to-be podcast received a plug on The Project Management Podcast!... Read more...