All too often project managers working on an EPM deployment get enthralled by their ability to do something and forget to ask “Should I do it?”.
Gotta love Dilbert when he’s talking about project management. It’s a lesson in when not to complain about a project!
I had the opportunity to be interviewed on my career and my views of the project management industry recently. Samir Penkar runs the Future of Project Management site at futureofprojectmanagement.com You’ll find the interview on the site just look for A few Key Decisions to take a look. It’s great to talk to others in the industry about trends and where things have been, where they are and where they’re headed in the coming years.
I was working with a large Canadian company recently, helping with their enterprise project management processes. As part of my work, I got to watch while a project control officer prepared a report for the Chief Financial Officer. It was a work of art. First data was grouped together from multiple projects in the desktop version of a popular project management system. That data was copied and then pasted into a massive Excel spreadsheet as…