by Alec Satin
Yesterday I was speaking with a good friend of mine who leads a PMO1 team of project managers and business analysts. Sharing stories together often provides much needed perspective. I came away from this conversation thinking about project managers and fool’s gold.
Fool’s Gold
Pyrite is a yellow mineral resembling gold. Inexperienced prospectors during the gold rush of the 1840s sometimes spent much of their precious time and effort focusing on this worthless “fool’s gold”. Others with more knowledge knew how to identify and pursue the true gold.
Power and the Project Manager
Experienced project managers understand the potential they bring to their project [...]
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by Alec Satin
For every PMO that delivers on its initial promise, there are two that hobble along, never really achieving much in terms of bottom-line benefit to customers, project managers, stakeholders or the business itself.
It’s pretty easy to eliminate most if not all benefits of a Project Management Office. Which of the following hold true for your PMO?
Make sure to set up a climate of fear. Emphasize the penalties of non-compliance. Use the stick and not the carrot.
Make sure to locate the program office as far away from the project managers as possible. Extra points if you make communication hard by limiting [...]
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