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Strategy & Structure: The Organizational Bits
Projects are how strategy gets implemented. Structure determines how projects are supported. Strategy and structure are essential and inseparable when we start thinking about managing projects organizationally rather than in isolation. Here are the structural and strategy approaches that make project management work well.
The Goldilocks Theory of Governance: How To Get To 'Just Right'
- by Mark Mullaly, PMP
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Why relate governance to a fairy tale? The more cynical among us might say that’s because the idea of effective governance and the actual practice really aren’t that far removed from fantasy. The astute reader also won’t require much effort or imagination to figure out where we’re going: some project managers suffer from too much, while others not enough; only an elusive few, however, can say that their governance is “just right”.
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Doing The Right Thing: Easier Than It Sounds?
- by Mark Mullaly, PMP
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We all believe that we understand and know what the concept of "doing the right thing" means. When it comes time to do this on our projects, however, is it really as easy as we might initially think? Do we really know what it means to manage our projects responsibly? Are we prepared to do so in the face of pressure, influence or outright direction to the contrary?
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Promote the Change, Not Your Project
- by Mark Mullaly, PMP
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It was inevitable that we would start to look at branding our projects. But does it make a difference? Does anyone care? And most importantly, does it help? And if it helps, exactly who is it helping, anyway? The answers are a click away...
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It’s The Organizational Change, Stupid...
- by Mark Mullaly, PMP
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Welcome to the other side of process improvement, where we need to support processes that are not designed in such a way that they are able to be performed by a 14-year-old.
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