Monthly Archives: September 2009

Project Managers should “Blink” more often

I had been putting off reading "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell for no known reason.  You know how that goes.  As it happens my procrastination was not such a bad thing!  When I did pick up my copy it had an "afterword" by the author that reflected on his thoughts since publishing the book and talking Read more...
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Microsoft Project Desktop 2010 and Microsoft Project Server 2010

The Microsoft Project teams have been busy developing new and very exciting versions of their flagship products, Project Desktop 2010 and Project Server 2010. Some of the pre-announced key investment areas include: (i) Enhance user experience and appeal; (ii) Improve execution with effective collaboration; Read more...
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Architecting and Deploying a SharePoint Solution for Work and Project Management

It is really easy to spin up a project site to manage a project on SharePoint.  With solutions like pmPoint it is now also very easy to spin up a Project Office site to manage across many projects.  If you think that SharePoint has been with us 10 years (if you start counting at the start of the Exchange Read more...
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On the way!

I am in NY en route to Phoenix for Microsoft's Project Conference. We are exhibiting and we were invited to speak this year. Always nice to be asked to speak! Our topic is "Opening SharePoint to Project 2010". We have been working with Project 2010 for some time now but have been under NDA, so not able Read more...
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New Project Request (Portfolio Management) Spectrum and Templates

This is the fifth in a series of five short posts on the work and project management spectrum. Organizations sometimes end up with too many projects running.  Sometimes they have inadvertently invested in the the wrong projects. Or the right projects at the wrong time.  Or the right projects Read more...
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Program Management Spectrum and Templates

This is the fourth in a series of five short posts on the work and project management spectrum. The question being addressed here is, "How do organizations manage across collections of projects?".  As before there are choices based on how much management is needed, how much management is desired Read more...
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Project Management Spectrum and Templates

This is the third in a series of five short posts on the work and project management spectrum. Much of the initiatives in organizations are delivered through projects of some shape or other. The question again is - what is the required shape?! Many of the projects are "unstructured" in that Read more...
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