So You Want To Be a Project Manager?

Thinking about a career in technology project management? Here's an inside look at the profession from someone who has spent 12 years in the trenches.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

ERP Systems, Round Pegs, and Square Holes

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Talk about luck. I’ve been fortunate (?) enough to have managed or assisted with the installation of products from both titans of the Enterp...

Friday, January 16, 2009

Beware the Robotic Horse

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I once had a coffee table book covering the early years of the auto industry. It was full of pictures and diagrams of the first crude proto-...

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Agile Methodology Is Making “Scope Creep” Obsolete

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Project managers often list scope creep as one of their biggest headaches. But is documenting all the requirements of a solution before wor...

Monday, January 12, 2009

Do You Trust Me?

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Trust. No team can function without it. As a PM stepping into a new project you'll have to work to earn it. Where to begin? By setting...

Sunday, January 11, 2009

In English, Please?

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One project management skill group you won’t see called out on the PMP exam is "Translating." By that I mean being able to render ...

Friday, January 9, 2009

Executives In Training?

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Can a project management career path eventually lead to the corner office? From what I've seen in my own organization, PM experience is ...

Thursday, January 8, 2009

There Is No Such Thing as an IT Project

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You've probably heard this one before. There truly are no "IT Projects" - only business requirements that have IT solutions. A...

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CN: San Francisco, CA, United States; Director-level IT project manager with 12 years of experience running technology efforts in the financial services, retail and insurance fields.

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