Intro
Hello and Welcome!
All of us in the IT and Project Management space see a lot of "stuff" on every project. We laugh about it, we cry about it, sometimes we even talk about it. There are always many lessons learned. Many times, these lessons are dutifully written down, distributed, agreed upon and then filed away only to become tomorrow's "Oh, yeah" moments. Well folks, I’m about to do it again. We all have our personal take on what's important and place different values on the lessons we learn from our experiences. I will be sharing some of mine.
While project management, as a practice, continues to become more formalized, structural issues that plagued us in the past have given way to a saner way of doing things. Methodologies such as CPM, CCPM, ECM and now Agile give us the tools we need to effectively manage tasks and resources. But, in spite of everyone's best efforts, "stuff" still happens.
Over the next few weeks, I will be publishing some of my observations regarding a recent, very large, complex IT and business transformation project. Maybe you've had similar experiences. Maybe not. Either way, if only one person gleans a little insight or contributes to the discussion, or most important, smiles because of something I write, then I have achieved my goal.
The titles of the upcoming posts are:
1. Change is hard
2. Parlez vous YSTIST?
3. Business is organic
4. A true friend
5. The missing link
6. Time travel is in your future
7. “There’s a splinter in my email”
8. Be flexible...and stand your ground
9. The train (and re-train) is coming
10. It’s over…or is it?
To easily see all of the current posts in contiguous reverse order (newest to oldest), click on the "10 Observations" link under the Categories heading in the sidebar on the right side of the page.
I want to encourage everyone who reads these posts to add comments (that tiny link at the very bottom of the page) and share their experiences as well. The point here is to look fondly upon the everyday things that happen during IT projects. The things that make us shake our heads but that are important nonetheless. Oh, and please feel free to re-post and share (please use the buttons provided for LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook). Hopefully other subjects to explore will emerge. I might even feature guest bloggers. Interested? Contact me.
Thanks!
Jeff Lowell
All of us in the IT and Project Management space see a lot of "stuff" on every project. We laugh about it, we cry about it, sometimes we even talk about it. There are always many lessons learned. Many times, these lessons are dutifully written down, distributed, agreed upon and then filed away only to become tomorrow's "Oh, yeah" moments. Well folks, I’m about to do it again. We all have our personal take on what's important and place different values on the lessons we learn from our experiences. I will be sharing some of mine.
While project management, as a practice, continues to become more formalized, structural issues that plagued us in the past have given way to a saner way of doing things. Methodologies such as CPM, CCPM, ECM and now Agile give us the tools we need to effectively manage tasks and resources. But, in spite of everyone's best efforts, "stuff" still happens.
Over the next few weeks, I will be publishing some of my observations regarding a recent, very large, complex IT and business transformation project. Maybe you've had similar experiences. Maybe not. Either way, if only one person gleans a little insight or contributes to the discussion, or most important, smiles because of something I write, then I have achieved my goal.
The titles of the upcoming posts are:
1. Change is hard
2. Parlez vous YSTIST?
3. Business is organic
4. A true friend
5. The missing link
6. Time travel is in your future
7. “There’s a splinter in my email”
8. Be flexible...and stand your ground
9. The train (and re-train) is coming
10. It’s over…or is it?
To easily see all of the current posts in contiguous reverse order (newest to oldest), click on the "10 Observations" link under the Categories heading in the sidebar on the right side of the page.
I want to encourage everyone who reads these posts to add comments (that tiny link at the very bottom of the page) and share their experiences as well. The point here is to look fondly upon the everyday things that happen during IT projects. The things that make us shake our heads but that are important nonetheless. Oh, and please feel free to re-post and share (please use the buttons provided for LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook). Hopefully other subjects to explore will emerge. I might even feature guest bloggers. Interested? Contact me.
Thanks!
Jeff Lowell
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