Art and Science of Software Project Management

Some people believe that compassion and especially compassion in the workplace is a form of weakness. Perhaps they think survival of the fit...

If you hold clear high expectations for your people they may automatically rise meet those expectations. However, I might add that when you ...

In Greek mythology Narcissus was a favorite of Apollo and considered one of the most handsome young men alive. His beauty has been compared ...

We never really arrive at the end of the road in our quest to become leaders. We may achieve leadership status in some way but it is always ...

Does being a control freak make you an effective leader? Micromanagers take perfectly positive attributes - an attention to detail and a han...

The process of developing, communicating, implementing, monitoring & assuring the policies, procedures, & org structures and practic...

Outcome Management is a set of methods, processes, tools and techniques for planning, selecting, managing and realizing results of benefits....

A "one-size-fits-all" approach is not effective for change management. For a moment, think about these changes: Acquiring a compan...

I am quite excited about the opportunity of speaking at the upcoming PMI conference in Calgary on November 23rd. Here is the link to the eve...

I see many of my clients struggle with this on a regular basis and there is a general mixup between a project manager, program manager and a...

The process by which we decide “it is necessary to change” doesn’t change much from one person to another. While that might sound like an ou...

Organizational Change Management There is no other subject more filled with hype and myth than that of Change Management. People state that ...

I am very excited and humbled to receive the "Project Management Excellence as an Individual - Business & Information Technology...

Which Leadership style do you follow?

Program Managers have two primary roles - managing the business associated with the program, and leading the program team to success. The pr...

The Program road map is an information display that visually shows the time phasing of the programs within the portfolio. Most company'...

Portfolio Maps are information displays that visually show key parameters associated with balancing and managing portfolio of programs. They...

A great opportunity to nominate project managers who deserve recognition for the fantastic work they have done. Also, check out the keynote...

As IT service providers we often come across service failures, some of which happen consistently. This isn't necessarily a disaster for ...

The purpose of a program map is to show the big-picture view of the critical cross-project dependencies and throughout the program lifecycle...

As I think through explaining complexity of a program to a client, I came up with an interesting way to assess the complexity of a program. ...

"Strategy gets you on the playing field, but execution pays the bills" - Gordon E. Eubanks, former President and CEO, Symantec Co...

Programs are structured groupings of projects designed to produce clearly identified business results or other end benefits. The program foc...

The amount of change has grown tremendously over the past two decades. The nature of the economies forces organizations to reduce costs, imp...

Kaplan and Norton say in The Balanced Scorecard: "An organization's measurement system strongly affects the behavior of people both...

It is very unfortunate that most IT systems are built on the principle of "Build it, and the benefits will come". It is assumed th...

During the last 2 months, I had a lot of personal change going on my life. I did get started on a book chapter on software release decisions...

"Project Authority..... You've got it only if you think you've got it." How can a Project Manager be responsible for the o...

When I was a novice project manager, I often wished that I could carry a baseball bat to the office, swing it and let people know about it...

A major problem for directors, managers, product managers and quality assurance personnel is to decide when the software is 'reliable en...

First of all, I would like to apologize to all the readers of this blog for not being able to write something for a little while as I was tr...

This month I will be presenting at the PMI dinner in the PMI Southern Alberta Chapter Dinner Meeting on October 25-th. It is a great topic ...

The business-IT alignment challenge is moving into a new territory according to Mckinsey survey released in May 2007 entitled, The next fron...

The other day, I was sitting at Starbucks and reading a book by Ram Charan, the renowned CEO consultant on leadership. The more I ponder on ...

The more project managers I meet, the more I find out that project management has a huge artistic side to it. Despite having common body of ...

With the beginning of this blog, I intend to make progress on my book on "Art and Science of Software Project Management". I inten...