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January 18, 2017 •
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Balancing the Governance Triangle Project managers know well the Iron Triangle of scope, schedule and budget. We are all familiar with the way that a poor balance ricochets around, weakens the other corners and ultimately degrades quality. But poorly...
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July 5, 2016 •
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By definition a project delivers a well-defined product, but as a thing itself it’s not so concrete. There are dimensions, perspectives and vectors: pilot projects, sub-projects and programs; and being an abstract thing that exists in the minds...
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March 13, 2016 •
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Part 1 – What Is Cybersecurity and why should you care? I think of myself as a maker. Nothing pleases me more than when I deliver to the user and hear “Oh, this is better.” Even a simple macro, to know I’m making somebody’s...
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November 1, 2015 •
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The famous, fatuous remark, “I don’t know much about art but I know what I like” has been riffed upon for at least a century. It derides the dull sensibilities of John Q. Public, oblivious to the richness that is exposed to him in oil daubed on...
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August 9, 2015 •
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The H1-B visa can be a political hot button, with some people saying there are too many issued and decrying the jobs lost to foreigners. Others who have difficulty finding employees with technical skills join the annual calls to raise the cap. All...
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January 8, 2015 •
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I was all cranked up to rant against the swelling tide of email. “How long, oh lord, how long must we put up with this evil scourge?” and so on. I was only away from my desk for two working days over Christmas yet it took most of a morning...
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December 6, 2014 •
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In support of a worthy cause, no question, but even most of those who come to “Women in Technology” events must question their point. What are women to gain from the lectures, panelists and kumbaya? It’s the men who have something to...
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July 6, 2014 •
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Michael C. Mankins writes on HBR’s site that a VP makes work for two other people. By implication, the cost of hiring a manager at that level is not just that person’s employment costs but those of the two others as well. Mankins’ graph shows this...
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May 17, 2014 •
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So you had your corporate web servers updated with the patch, pow-wowed with your vendors and other partners to make sure everything was contained, and when you caught a breath you changed your online banking passwords (I mean, you did, didn’t you?);...
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February 15, 2014 •
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A HBR blog post entitled “Develop the Leaders You’ve Been Overlooking”, by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, argues that in every organization there are de facto leaders, the valued and respected contributors with deep knowledge and experience, who...
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February 25, 2013 •
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There’s sometimes a dysfunctional relationship between IT and the business. You know what I mean by the business: everything that’s not IT. Some people will say it’s just the profit centers, but IT supports all business units, profit and cost...
