Everyone in project management has probably heard of or perhaps even quoted the Chaos study, conducted every two years by the Standish Group which repeatedly concludes that IT projects have an amazingly low rate of success. Finally we anticipate clearer skies ahead because the newest Chaos study finds that IT project success rates are slightly better…
Customer segmentation is becoming a popular topic. As with anything new there are many misconceptions, misunderstandings and too little clarity. Each stakeholder has their own definition of segmentation and each understands it in a different way. The basics are actually always the same and the required tools are known and established. — Article published in MonitorPro summer…
PMI introduced the »New Media Council« in 2009 whose members were tasked with writing blogs, delivering web presentations and do anything related with modern social media technologies. Their goal is on one hand to promote PMI in the web environment and on the other hand to understand how new trends in social media affect project…
As a member of the PMI Slovenia Chapter I was given the opportunity to attend the Project Zone 2011 project management conference in Budapest. It was organized for attendees from the Eastern European region and was attended mostly by project practitioners from Hungary, Romania and Slovakia with a few people from neighboring countries as well. The keynote speaker was…
We have asked 5 questions to 5 Organizational Department Heads from different companies about project management. I was interviewed in the SAS AR Newsletter about project management. The last question was on a less serious note and asked what profession is most closely related to project management. My answer was what I always say in…
Business intelligence is evolving from a reactive (“What has happened?”) into a more proactive (“What will happen?”) role. In order to maximize benefits it would make sense to more tightly combine business intelligence (BI) with business process management (BPM) rather than implement each solution individually. – Article published in MonitorPro, spring 2011, p. 28-29.
Project managers spend most of our time communicating. This takes place within our project teams as well as outside of the project environment. Traditional communication methods, such as meetings, telephone calls and email are supplemented with more modern forms that include chat rooms, blogs, social media and similar. – International Conference on Organizational Science Development, March…
I participated in a meeting to prepare the proposal for a solution for a customer. They insist that the the proposal must contain a fixed price. Before the proposal can be prepared, the developers would like to know the exact scope of the solution so that all stakeholders would agree what will be delivered for…
Among the myriad of year-end analyses and forecasts I was very much amused by reading Jill Dyché’s forecasts. I like her style because unlike other analysts who generally forecast what will happen she chose to forecast what will not happen in 2011. I always sympathize with her when I read her blog posts as she seems…
Recently I heard the frequently used phrase again: we have to provide “the right data to the right people at the right time”. The phrase is related to business intelligence and hints that we should provide business users with the right data at the right time to enable them to make business decisions. Have we ever…