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CIOs’ top 2025 goal? Turning around IT’s sagging reputation

CIO

Macroeconomically, data indicates that IT spending since 2000 has increased 130%, while GDP has only increased 29%. During the rollout of a collaboration platform, a project manager asked her team, “When are we finished?” End-users need to understand how to use the technology productively. Wrong answer.

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A Comprehensive guide to Agile Project Management

Openxcell

This led to a developmental graveyard of unfinished or unwanted projects and hours of wasted efforts, resources and energy. What is Agile Project Management? As mentioned earlier, Agile is an approach to project management that seeks the continuous delivery of working software created in rapid iterations.

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The Best of My 20 Years of Writing on Design

Scott Berkun

In might be a surprise if you know me for my books and talks , but back in 2000 I mostly wrote about design. It explains why even Making Things happen , a book about project management, uses design concepts more that project management books do.

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When Demand Exceeds Capacity

LeanEssays

It is difficult to find enough talented people to do the complex system design, project management, and installation of solar systems. Our solar company has an eager sales force and a handful of project managers. But in the early 2000’s Amazon outgrew this process; its computers could not keep up with surges in demand.

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Leadership Heresy: A #Winningwell Guest Post by David Dye

Let's Grow Leaders

That’s why Karin and I wrote Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul. I don’t mean that you have to become a certified professional project manager in order to have influence. Now, I understand that many leadership texts will tell you, “If you’re not good at management, hire it.”.

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Why Less Communication is Better!

scruminc

Fundamental to systems theory is the concept of “policy resistance” which says that anytime you try to implement a policy, procedure, strategy, or operation, side effects immediately arise to thwart the change (see Sterman 2000 Business Dynamics. McGraw Hill).

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Time Management: How to Maximize Your Productivity

Women on Business

That’s right, if time could be weighed, you would save 2000 pounds of time just by being organized. Accounts Payable, Orders, Payroll, and Project Management: you can store all of that information in one easily searchable database. One of the biggest time-consumers in a business is just looking for things.

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