February 29th, 2012
Among the questions that I wanted to ask CIO’s for my CIO’s at Work book, one was fairly obvious: I wanted to know what gave them nightmares, what kept them awake at night. I could easily imagine every CIO giving me a list of ten or twenty; indeed, you could easily get the impression that [...]
February 22nd, 2012
When I started working on my CIO’s at Work book, I naively assumed that I would be able to talk to any CIO I wanted to, and that my main task would be to avoid getting overwhelmed by an infinite number of talkative CIO’s. That turned out not to be true — partly (to my [...]
February 20th, 2012
About a year ago, I started working on a book that was recently published with the title CIO’s at Work. My plan was fairly straightforward: track down the Chief Information Officer in several companies in various industries, and see what they thought was important. Since I’ve been working in the IT field for over 45 [...]
October 15th, 2011
I spent most of last week in Rome, presenting a three-day seminar on “Extreme Project Management” for Technology Transfer Institute. If you were stuck in some other part of the world, or if you couldn’t persuade your boss to send you to Rome, you can click here to view and download the 7MB) PDF version of the [...]
November 7th, 2010
I spent most of last week in Rome, presenting a three-day seminar on “Extreme Project Management” for Technology Transfer Institute. If you were stuck in some other part of the world, or if you couldn’t persuade your boss to send you to Rome, you can click here to view and download the 25MB) PDF version of the [...]
August 6th, 2010
I noticed an August 2, 2010 article from the University of Texas at Dallas that should be of interesting to anyone focusing on cloud computing: it describes a collection of recently-released tools to help application developers build more robust and secure cloud applications. The article is titled “Team Releases Tools for Secure Cloud Computing.” The [...]
July 14th, 2010
The longer I work in the IT industry, the more amazed I am at the type of mistakes that project managers make, and also the way they react to them — both at the time the mistake is committed, and when they talk about it weeks, months, or even years later. I have a somewhat [...]
July 12th, 2010
When a project manager “sinner” sits down to talk with his or her IT “confessor-priest,” one of two situations usually exists: either the sin has already been committed — i.e., the project manager has already made a mistake — or it has not. We’ll discuss these two situations in separate blog postings. Assuming that the [...]
July 11th, 2010
Imagine that I’m the “confessor priest” in an IT project confessional environment, and a troubled project manager walks into my office, and tells me that in a fit of rage, he has just shot an obnoxious, uncooperative, unproductive members of his project team — point blank, right between the eyes. What should I do? Or [...]
July 9th, 2010
What would a priest do if he sat alone in his confessional box all day long, and nobody showed up to confess his sins? Perhaps he would just shrug, and come back again the next day. But eventually, he would … well, I’ll let someone who knows more about the protocol and procedures of organized [...]
