PM Quote of the Day — St. Thomas Aquinas

Beware of the person of one book.

“Live” prototying/proof of concepts

It has been a busy few weeks here at MJN as we get the transition to stand-alone rolling. Like many large programs, our main transformation initiative — Sunrise (nice name, eh?) — sometimes acts as if it were the first program of any importance ever executed. Its size and stature also obscure other major initiatives. [...]

PM Quote of the Day — Carol Burnett

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That’s an education in itself.

PM Quote of the Day — Joseph F. Newton

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.  

Which PM “faux pas” make your hair stand on end?

In my last post about the “school solution,” I noted that there’s something unnerving about project and program managers who skip over the basics.  As Glen Alleman noted in his comment, the PM school solution or black letter law almost always has some merit as a start. Thinking about this post brought to mind the [...]

PM Quote of the Day — Truman Capote

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.