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10 Things I Learned at PMI Houston’s 2015 Annual Conference
We came. We saw. We learned. The 2015 annual conference has come and gone, and with it, we’ve compiled our list of the top ten takeaways. See how the oil price downturn has affected project and...
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Would You Wear a Winter Coat on a Hot Day?
As the Houston summer heats up and the mosquitoes launch their annual siege, the concept of summer safety comes up. We lecture the kids on what they should wear, and how they should slather themselves...
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Baseline Benefits as Well as Costs
Not to keep harping on the ongoing depression in oil prices – which let’s face it, is probably a good thing for folks outside of the energy industry – but it affects many of the discussions we have...
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Building the Business Case for Optimized Portfolios
That summer trip to Kyrgyzstan is but a distant memory. The kids are back in school. The Houston temperatures are dipping into the merely tolerable range, and the swimming pool is no longer...
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[Webinar] Annual Planning Got You Down? Make it Fun Again
Join us for a webinar (presented by yours truly): Learn how portfolio analytics, coupled with appropriate portfolio segmentation and business case development, can be successfully enabled using...
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What I Did For My Summer Vacation (2015)
It’s been a bit of a tradition to blog up some of our more ambitious family vacations, and this blog commemorates our 2015 trip, just completed. As a bit of background, as most of our regular readers...
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Does Microsoft Project Online Integrate with [Blank]? (Part 1)
This question comes up increasingly in our discussions with clients: “Does Microsoft Project Online integrate with [fill in the blank with whatever Agile tool your organization happens to be...
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Does Microsoft Project Online Integrate with [Blank]? (Part 2)
This question comes up increasingly in our discussions with clients: “Does Microsoft Project Online integrate with [fill in the blank with whatever Agile tool your organization happens to be...
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Project Impermanence: The Sign of an Infant PMO
Object permanence is that step in infant development where the infant comes to realize that an object returning to the field of vision may actually be the same object that left several minutes ago,...
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And Now For Something Completely Different….
My first career was almost the foreign service. Reading articles like this, a fascinating 1994 interview with Ambassador Joseph Lake about opening the first US embassy in Mongolia almost makes me wish...
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Annual Planning, Mode 1 Management and Circular Logic
Gartner introduced an interesting concept at the PPM Summit in Dallas last May: Mode 1 and Mode 2 planning. Mode 1 planning, as they described it, is the traditional planning approach to projects....
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PMOs: You’re Either With Them….Or Against Them
It’s an oft repeated joke about PMOs that the difference between “policy” and “police” is only one letter. (The other joke being that PMO’s are like potato chips; you can’t have just one.) Preparing...
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ConEd Talks Capital Governance in Atlanta in October
Frank La Rocca, Director of Business Improvement Services for Consolidated Edison will be presenting on how they have been able to manage their capital portfolio at this exclusive event in the Atlanta...
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Portfolio Analysis in Project Online: Engagements Edition
I started writing about the mechanics of the portfolio analysis module of Microsoft Project Server back in 2010-2011 with Microsoft Project Server 2010. That resulted in this somewhat comprehensive...
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When Deterministic Scheduling Meets Kanban
One of the fun things about my job is that often I find myself knitting together multiple disparate systems and scheduling philosophies. In this case, I’m working with a client on a field scheduling...
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