On Carnegie, Football, and PPM Scoreboards
Legend has it that on a visit to one of his many steel mills, Andrew Carnegie asked a group of workers how much they had produced on their shift. He then took out a piece of chalk, wrote out the … Read...
View ArticleBeware of Toxic Numbers
One of the key objectives of Business-Driven PPM is to track and report the benefits of project work within the organization. This is particularly true of any large scale change or continuous...
View ArticlePPM and Fractional Elephants
My hypothesis for this post is a borrowed line from Peter Senge’s “The Fifth Discipline,” rated by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential Business Management books. It goes like this: Cutting...
View ArticleCulture Change
Without a change in culture, most transformation programs such as Lean Six Sigma and portfolio management initiatives often fall short of expectations. So with this in mind practitioners set out to...
View ArticleThe Importance of Mistakes
In both project & portfolio management and business generally, we need to create an environment where mistakes are tolerated, and where people who make mistakes are encouraged. “Heresy!” you may be...
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