Ah, the good-old eighties. The decade that gave us Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear, power ballads by Journey, and the emergence of the data warehouse. That’s right, the data warehouse! More than 30 years ago, the birth of the data warehouse allowed business leaders to adopt a set of techniques and technologies aimed at…
Its human nature to more easily retain lessons learned from error or poor judgment than from success. However, the key to applying the lesson to future projects is to self-reflect on what went wrong and adapt the principle to the new situation. I have learned the hard way not to blindly agree to the scope,…
Poor Project management leads to taking on more than you can handle and drowning in costs, wasted effort and time. Where I live, the summer weather has come and gone, the leaves have changed color and are already falling off the trees. However my husband and I have started planning for our anniversary trip to…
Can your PMO benefit from good project management standardization? Do the majority of the projects in your organization finish right on schedule? Was the original estimation of how much money and/or resources would be required accurate? When the opportunity for a new project or customer engagement comes up, do you have a reliable method of…