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Who Is Looking Out for Your Organization’s Interests
There are several good reasons to always have an internal project manager oversee the work of external consulting groups, not the least of which is that it ensures someone is always looking out for your organization’s best interests.
Who Should Project Managers Report To?
In many organizations, project management is part of the IT department, but this is not the best organizational structure for ensuring projects meet the needs of end users.
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Change Management Is Not a Cure-All
Even the best change management cannot make up for poor project management and bad process and system design.
The Importance of Leadership Alignment
Successful change initiatives require organizational leaders to be aligned on the initiative’s level of importance.
The Real Role of a Project’s Executive Sponsor
The role of a project’s executive sponsor is not to remove roadblocks encountered by the project team. It is to keep such roadblocks from ever popping up in the first place.
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The Most Important Aspect of Change Management
Creating desire for a change is much more important than any other aspect of organizational change management.
The Misapplication of Agile and the Myth that Waterfall is Dead
The popularity of Agile has led some organizations to use it on projects that would be much better served by a different project management methodology.