Archive for the ‘Project Management’ Category

Back to Basics

Monday, May 24th, 2010

The battery in my backpack sprayer doesn’t seem to hold a charge any longer. Trying to spray for weeds with a battery operated device with a non-functioning battery is a problem! Ordering the replacement exposed one IT organization’s weak customer focus. (more…)

Big Bang Doesn’t Work

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

“We have no choice. We have to do a hot cut Friday night. It’ll be tough, but we’ll have the weekend to clean up. We’ll be fine on Monday.” (more…)

Provision a Data Center in 30 days

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

This is not some cleverly named cloud computing article. This was a real requirement.

(I will leave the details around how this company got in the situation of needing a data center in 30 days…. (more…)

Doing the Right Thing

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

The new phone and voice mail systems were just being deployed. Everyone was thrilled…there were even posters up “Free Yourself from Telephone Tyranny” with a tie in to the July 4th implementation.

Everything was going smoothly until someone asked why the message waiting lights on the general purpose phones were not coming on. (more…)

Project Planning 101

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

A number of years ago, my 11 year-old son came to me and asked me to sign his homework. Being an engaged parent, I decided to actually look at his work. To my surprise, he had been asked by his teacher to complete a project plan for his upcoming math project.

I looked at his paper and realized it asked for the following:

  • A list of materials (”resources”)
  • Steps to complete the project (”tasks”)
  • A draft drawing (”milestone”)
  • Due date (”deliverable”)
  • His name (”project manager”)
  • Parent signature (”signoff”)

I immediately asked when he found the time to go to Microsoft Project training (more…)

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