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Project Management in Practice
Project Management in Practice
Mark Mullaly offers his take on what it REALLY means to be a project manager working in today's business climate.
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CIO Survival Guide – The Recovery Begins
- by Michael Wood
(December 8, 2009)
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If all goes well, 2010 offers a great opportunity for CIOs to catch up and re-establish their IT priorities within an overall business strategy. Here's how the wise CIO can take advantage of the opportunity.
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Project Portfolio Management on a Dime
(October 13, 2009)
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With little extra money but plenty of extra time, smart IT managers are learning how to improve PPM functions without breaking the bank. Here are seven ways to get creative with PPM on the cheap.
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What's It Worth?: Measuring the PMO
- by Michael Wood
(October 7, 2008)
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At the end of the day, the real measure of a PMO’s effectiveness is the degree to which it improves the speed, cost and consistency of project success. Here's how to evaluate that effectiveness.
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Finding Value in Project Compliance
- by Mark E. Mullaly, PMP
(May 3, 2006)
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Acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) have subjected every publicly-traded company, and increasingly many private ones, to similar levels of control and oversight. As such, compliance is becoming a widespread issue for most organizations.
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Nice Ideas…Shame About the Implementation
- by Mark E. Mullaly, PMP
(March 22, 2006)
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Organizational culture is a complex thing. If our culture is what gets in the way of ideal project management, what can we do to help shape it to allow project management to work better?
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Out on the Carpet: Confronting Our Organizational Challenges
- by Mark E. Mullaly, PMP
(February 15, 2006)
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What is getting in the way of projects actually getting better? There is something missing from our organizational approach to managing projects, an essential glue between the organization and the projects they manage.
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Out of the Closet
- by Mark E. Mullaly, PMP
(January 11, 2006)
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Are you doing enough internally to position your organization for project success? It's time to step out and confront our organizational challenges.
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Opening the Closet: Learning from Project Failures
- by Mark E. Mullaly, PMP
(December 14, 2005)
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Theoretically, all projects are learning opportunities. The value of a post-implementation review is that it offers us opportunities to identify how to improve future project delivery. But many times, they are not conducted, or when they are the subsequent reflection required to identify and implement changes to future projects doesn't occur. Here are some thoughts on taking a step in the right direction.
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Deadly Questions Redux: Resurrecting the Interview
- by Mark E. Mullaly, PMP
(October 31, 2005)
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Face it: A traditional interview is simply inadequate in helping to understand how someone communicates except in a formal interview situation. If you want to know how they perform in different environments, you're going to have to explore those environments.
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