In this Issue:
*allPM's Letter from the Editor, Frank P. Saladis, PMP
*allPM April Poll Results and New Poll Question
*Theme of the Month:
So You Want to Be the Best Organization in the Next Market Upswing? The Time to Invest is Now.
By Guy Grindborg, PMP
*Use Project Management to Recession Proof your Business
By George Bridges, PMP
*How Valuable Are You?
By Steve Blais, PMP
*The Key To Project Management Success: The Importance of Information
By Christophe Borlat
*What Every Project Managers Needs to Know About Business Analysis
By George Bridges, PMP
*Positive Leadership in Project Management –
Leading Through Organizational Change
By Frank P. Saladis, PMP
*Why It’s So Hard to Improve Results: The Fundamentals of Design of Experiments
By Harry Rever, PMP – Director of Six Sigma, IIL
*Putting Your Lessons Learned to Work
By Karen Quagliata
*Risk Doctor: After The Crisis – Then What?
By Dr. David Hillson, PMP, FAPM
*PM Crossword Connections™: For Mature Minds —
Elements of Maturity Models
By Frank P. Saladis, PMP
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From the Editor's Desk— Frank P. Saladis, PMP
Welcome to another issue of allPM newsletter. This month we focus our attention on today’s economic conditions. I am sure that most of you and your colleagues have discussed the economy or something related to the economy more than once in the last few months. Most news channels dedicate a fairly significant amount of time discussing the gloom and doom of the world economic situation. It is difficult to find a story or an article that has some connection to good news.
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Theme of the Month:
So You Want to Be the Best Organization in the Next Market Upswing? The Time to Invest is Now.
By Guy Grindborg, PMP
Failure to improve processes and productivity now will cause companies to lose the competitive edge when the economy takes off.
This article describes some actions an organization will need to take in order to position themselves for the market upswing. “Yes, there will be one.”
© 2009 allPM.com
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Use Project Management to Recession Proof your Business
By George Bridges, PMP
The recent news reports describes layoff, cutbacks, unemployment and how companies are forced to do more with less; i.e. less time, money and people. Some companies are just looking to survive and stay in business. America and the world are being rocked by a global financial storm. How can you protect your company, your business, your organization and your employees?
© 2009 allPM.com
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How Valuable Are You?
By Steve Blais, PMP
When the economic outlook is bleak or even foreboding, it is natural to start thinking about survival. What can I do to save my job? A project manager’s job many times is linked inextricably to the current project. In times of cutting costs and pulling back, upper-level management may find it easier to cancel or postpone whole projects and their teams, including the project manager, than to individually evaluate personnel.
© 2009 allPM.com
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The Key To Project Management Success: The Importance of Information
By Christophe Borlat
The global economic downturn has had a significant impact on how we do business and many companies are looking to optimize costs. The best way to ensure your company’s survival is through strategic planning. This article focuses on the challenges that high-level managers (CIOs, PMOs, IT Managers, Project Managers) face and how they can succeed by managing risks, tracking project progress and budgets.
© 2009 allPM.com
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What Every Project Managers Needs to Know About Business Analysis
By George Bridges, PMP
Because of the rise of the business analysis profession, the field of project management will never be the same again! Only a few years ago, there was no such thing as a business analyst (BA). Today, we see more and more organizations using BAs to define the requirements of new systems and products and to manage product scope. BAs are working directly with project managers and project teams.
© 2009 International Institute for Learning, Inc.
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Positive Leadership in Project Management –
Leading Through Organizational Change
By Frank P. Saladis, PMP
There is no doubt that we live and work in a very complex and changing business environment. Project managers are encountering greater challenges and faster rates of change and the world economy has added significantly to these “high pressure times.” The typical response to high pressure and change is stress and resistance. People are overdosed on change, tired of uncertainty, and feeling just plain burnt out.
© 2009 allPM.com
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Why It’s So Hard to Improve Results: The Fundamentals of Design of Experiments
By Harry Rever, PMP – Director of Six Sigma, IIL
This article is Part I of III,
Who knows how to improve results in your company? Does your boss? When your boss says to do this or that, or to implement these changes, do results get better? How do you know? Do project managers know how to improve results; is that part of their training?
© 2009 allPM.com
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Putting Your Lessons Learned to Work
By Karen Quagliata
The philosopher George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. Easy for him to say – he was probably never a project manager!
© 2009 allPM.com
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Risk Doctor: After The Crisis – Then What?
By Dr. David Hillson, PMP, FAPM
Many people blame the current global financial crisis on a failure of risk management. They say that risk professionals should have been in the best position to foresee what was coming and warn the rest of us. If the forward-looking radar of risk management was unable to spot the danger signs, then it can be of little use in future.
© 2009 Risk Doctor Limited
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PM Crossword Connections™: Mad Money —
The Language of Finance and The Economy
By Frank P. Saladis, PMP
(Click here or the image above for a crossword in a new window.)
© 2009 allPM.com
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