Debacle: Case Study of a Small Project
by Kathy Martucci, PMP:
Picture this: a roomful of disappointed and barely civil executives are intently focused on you. The one-page briefing you have prepared seems woefully inadequate to answer their questions and address the situation.…
Projects, Projects Everywhere: A Project Portfolio Management Approach
by Kathy Martucci, PMP:
Everybody’s project is this year’s priority. Everyone is a project manager. Every manager thinks her initiatives should receive major portions of the limited funding that is available these days. Every team wants…
PMOs – Why Might I Need One?
By Bruce Beer, PMP:
Note: This is the third post in a series on PMOs. Read part 1 What is a PMO and What Does It Do or part 2 PMO Business Value and Impact.
In the previous two blogs in this series we looked at what a PMO is, and the…
Planning for Your Organization’s
PeopleSoft Implementation
By Kathy Martucci, PMP:
Editor’s note: This is the third post in a series about implementing PeopleSoft projects. The second post on initial considerations for PeopleSoft implementations can be found here.
It’s no accident that…
PeopleSoft Implementation
Choosing PeopleSoft – Is it Right for Your Organization?
By Kathy Martucci, PMP:
I have been involved in PeopleSoft implementations for over 10 years – before the product was web-enabled, in fact. Overall, the product is extremely robust and offers literally thousands of functional threads…
How Triage Techniques Might Have Helped Toyota, Part 2
by Bruce Beer, PMP:
Earlier, we began exploring Toyota’s quality and performance problems through 2010 and how Triage efforts could help them recover before it is too late. In this post, we continue that discussion. (Click here to read…