Portfolio Planning

Murphy’s Law sets the following: “anything that can possibly go wrong, does.” I do not believe in Murphy’s Law. The only law I do believe in is the law of gravity. Gravity affects all. Murphy does not. When things get bent Murphy takes too much credit (blame) when the more likely result being a symptom [...]
Very pleased to present at Project Management Institute New York City chapter on Agile project methods to create and manage social media.  Great opportunity to formalize some thoughts and present to a very active and engaged community. I will share more resources after the meeting To view presentation within this site, scroll below the 2 slides.  You [...]
The objective of a firm is to find assets that have more value to the firm than cost.  The objective of a project is an investment in either something new or to improve something old in a process to realize more value than the combined project and continued operational cost. How do projects present a [...]
Social media has stressed compression of more with less.  The more is information, the less is time.  Time to read, react, and respond drives our need to process information from wider sources and shortened news cycles.  Individual and organization credibility can use a Lean approach in social media for more agile solutions to manage social [...]
Forget those who embrace training and see themselves as lifelong learners. We have no choice but act in constant learning mode, from lunch and learns to new policy rollout to new software to train-the-trainer to skills development.  As the saying goes “if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse” and organizations spend on training:  in [...]
Top blog posts from 2012, from number 5 to number 1, a follow-up from Top 10 blog posts for 2012, 10 to 6 5. Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success; stakeholder analysis template — If I was to chart the the blog like a top 40 countdown I would say, “moving up [...]
Microsoft calls SharePoint, the new way to work together. I am willing to agree with that and advocate, further, that in the last 12 months SharePoint, has radically altered the way I design any change management effort I roll out. Work together. Work faster. Work smarter … ok, that is a Microsoft SharePointmarketing angle as [...]