02/06/06 Tip of the Week. Managing PMO Processes: Tip 7 - Recognition for process improvement.
How do you recognize project managers? Most of them are every good at what they do and it is expected that they will manage projects well. One approach that more and more PMOs are adopting is to provide incentives and recognition for process improvement... Read more...
Favorite Response to Project Confernce Demo
I thought that this was a funny story about the Project Conference. During Tuesday's keynote by our GM, Mike showed off multi-level undo in Project. Our VP was sitting in the audience and heard the person next to him gasp and say "Oh My God ..." The audience burst... Read more...
Project Conference Follow-Up + Hidden Gems
After a couple of weeks of rest, I wanted to give my impressions of the Project Conference and P12. It was great to see the big crowd and interest in Project. You could get a real sense for the number of attendees in the keynotes (over 1500) ... but otherwise... Read more...
A quick start to ERP for IT
Greetings all, I have my first review draft done for my book. If you are interested in reviewing please drop me a note. I'm going to start posting excerpts here for comment. Here is the first. ================================================ A quick... Read more...
01/30/06 Tip of the Week. Managing PMO Processes: Tip 6 - Process reviews.
Don’t wait until there is a problem to review the processes and best practices of the PMO. Establish process owners and delegate to them the duty of periodic assessment of their assigned processes and best practices. Encourage them to proactively... Read more...
Anatomy of a break-in
Here is a two-day case study of a black-bag team of security consultants performing a security test (CIO-sanctioned). I've read similar cases, but none as thorough or blood-chilling. A little out of scope for this blog but - highly recommended. http://www.securitypipeline.com/177100480 Read More →
Where can I get System Center Capacity Planner?
Short answer: System Center Capacity Planner is on TechNet disc 0422, which went out this month. We’re actually “featured content” — I think this is what we get in return for exclusivity! System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) ships this month... Read more...
Aaaaand, we’re back
I’ll be making lots of updates to the nonadmin wiki this week. Yesterday it was three months’ worth of press articles about running as a non-administrator, and today it’s two webcasts and two whitepapers for the other resources page*. This is also... Read more...
01/23/06 Tip of the Week. Managing PMO Processes: Tip 5 - Process owners.
Process owners can play a key role in ensuring that the PMO processes are kept up to date, useful, usable, and auditable. PMO processes or best practices without process owners will likely become outdated over time and at some point will even become inconsequential... Read more...
01/23/06 Tip of the Week. Managing PMO Processes: Tip 5 - Process owners.
Process owners can play a key role in ensuring that the PMO processes are kept up to date, useful, usable, and auditable. PMO processes or best practices without process owners will likely become outdated over time and at some point will even become inconsequential... Read more...