“Good News / Bad News” vs. “News Delivered / News Withheld” By Mark Calabrese I don’t agree with the whole “good news/bad news” paradigm. There is only “news delivered” and “news withheld.” The difference...
ITIL: Dangers of Treating “Everything” as an Incident By Bob Faerman Whether or not formalized processes are in place, most IT groups do recognize that there are distinct differences between activities that ITIL would...
Why Projects Fail – Part II By Steve Beshuk This is the second and final installment of Why Projects Fail. So far, we’ve covered two important points. First, sometimes projects fail simply because they...
Avoiding Project Delays for Fall By Jerry Bishop August is often the calm before the storm for campus IT departments. Summer sessions are wrapping up and there are about 30 days until the fall...
Estimating Software Effort By Sydney du Plooy Estimating the effort it takes to produce a software product is a fairly difficult process. There are a couple of reasons why. They range from management politics...
Winning Is the Result, Not Project Management By Michael Pruitt The Keller Rohrback Masters Cycling team was designed to win Criteriums, and we did that in spades this year. We won Volunteer Park, Wenatchee...
Risk Management Strategies, Tools, and Techniques By Kathie York This essay is an excerpt from an assignment for the Assessing and Managing Project Risk course in my Master of Science in Project Management program....
Why Projects Succeed: Commitment Management By Roger Kastner “You get the behaviors you measure and reward.” – Jack Welch I often get asked by clients and colleagues, “What is the most effective way to...
Top Two Factors That Tank Many IT Projects By Sean Kenney I have been dealing with IT projects for the last 15 years of my career. There are many things that contribute to projects...
Project Communication in Threes By Michael Pruitt Something that I often see is the conflation of project administration and project management. While administration is important and plans are good, people are typically poorly motivated...
