I was recently interviewed for the Snowflake blog where I discussed the benefits of being an active member of the Snowflake Community, how the community has helped me grow into my role as a Snowflake DataSuperhero and how it can be of use to anyone looking for hands-on Snowflake resources. With respect to the usefulness…
I’m so excited about becoming a Snowflake Data Superhero! I first learned about the Superhero program from Kent Graziano’s blog more than a year ago and I immediately thought it would be cool to be a member of this group. At the time, I was still very much a beginner with Snowflake and I knew…
Project contingency planning is among the least understood topics related to project management. This is probably due to the fact that contingency deals with the unknown. How do we plan for something that might happen but we don’t even know what that might be? And how much will it cost us if it does happen?…
Once again I was invited to participate in PMI’s publication PM Network, this time in their June 2013 issue. I contributed tips about how to be more productive on projects. The article lists ten miscellaneous tips for project managers. One of them was mine, about resolving minor issues by clearing the air via telephone call rather than…
In the February issue of PM Network magazine you can read an interview with me about my views on sex discrimination in IT. The article is written as a debate between two project managers with opposing views. My opinion is that based on my experience there is no sex discrimination in IT. Who knows whether my…
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…
I was the recipient of the 2006 Jan Korevaar Outstanding Paper Award at the 5th ICEC World Congress, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in May 2006. The title of my paper was Implementing Earned Value Management on IT Projects. The International Cost Engineering Council initiated the Jan Korevaar Outstanding Paper Award to recognize the paper chosen by…
Maja Ferle, business intelligence consultant at SRC.SI, says that the anticipated entry of foreign competition after Slovenia joined the European Union that would spur the need for business intelligence hasn’t happened. “Companies still don’t believe that they could gain a competitive advantage by using business intelligence solutions and thus be a step ahead in the…
While it appeared that we were lagging behind in data warehousing a few years ago, this is not the case any longer as most companies already have solutions in place. More… Finance 128/2003, 4.7.2003