About this blog
“crossderry” is an Irish term for “across from the woods” or “the crossroads at the woods” — I never can get a single answer from my Kerry kin. It is a real place though, see the Crossderry google map
However, the term fits some of what we’re talking about here — seeing the forest for the trees, taking the correct fork before heading into the woods, making sure you understand what terms mean.
About me
First, the views, ideas, notions, and other synonyms for content are mine, and not my employer’s.
Second, as you might guess, I used to work for SAP and now work for a SAP customer. I’m the global director of a program management group for a global CPG/food company. My group owns PMO, finance, contract, resource, and process management functions for IT.
I used to lead the global project management operations group for SAP and represented SAP to PMI’s Global Corporate Council.
I’ve been part of a pre-IPO logistics software start-up (acquisition being the liquidity event) and co-founded a multimedia start-up (liquidation being the illiquidity event).
I have BAs in Econ and History from George Mason University and an MBA from Babson College.
The rest is in my CV (here).
[...] About [...]
[...] to Paul Ritchie at Crossderry for pointing out the recent report by the Project Management Institute called [...]
Hello Paul:
Would you be open to a “link” exchange between your blog and mine? I really have enjoyed you blog and would like to put it on my Blogroll.
Please advise,
Best regards,
Ken
Will you be writing more about Change Management or BI? I am looking for bloggers and analysts articles in the ERP and/or BI space for free exposure wihtin our newsletter publication.
Please reach me for more info: janderson@imninc.com
Cheers – Jennifer
[...] Coming from experienced project manager Paul Ritchie, the beauty of this blog is typically found in it’s simplicity. No long rants or lectures [...]
Would you be interested in exchanging links?
Thanks for the comment…I’ll check out your blog and see if there’s anything link-worthy.
Hi there
Your blog is one of our favourites and we’ve added it to the PPMcommunity.com website, it’s a website which profiles all the programme and project management blogs which are available. Please get in touch if you would like to be profiled
Many thanks
Amy
Paul,
You probably do not remember me but I interviewed with you about 4 months ago in Evansville. For one reason or another I was not a good fit for that job but I wanted to let you know that you have been instrumental in my life. I am sure you are unaware of this impact. When researching your background prior to the interview I noticed you had the cross derry blog. Well I decided to create my own blog. http://plates55.com. More on the technical side of the house than PM based. Also due to you and your blog I have decided to pursue my PHD in Informatics from IUPUI. I have just been accepted into their program.
So thank you Paul.
Regards
Scott Wood
Hi Scott,
I absolutely remember you…it is gratifying to hear that Crossderry had such an impact! The informatics program sounds like a good move, congrats. Also, I like Plates55.com…nice meaty content.
Best,
Paul
We’re interested in links exchange… We own the website http://www.mymanagementguide.com
Please let us know if you’r interested in links exchange.
Thanks
elocman@gmail.com
[...] from experienced project manager Paul Ritchie, the beauty of this blog is typically found in it’s simplicity. No long rants or lectures here, [...]
Hi Paul,
We are creating an innovative online community around the topic of Leadership and Management (it will look almost identical to http://www.socialmediainformer.com and http://www.frugalfocus.com, but around L&M), and we would like to invite you to include your blog in this new site. We already have many great bloggers on board, including those from Harvard Business Review, Leadership Now, Michael Lee Stallard, and Weekly Leader, among others – and we would love for you to join also.
The site will aggregate content from the best leadership/management bloggers on the internet (similar to but more efficient than http://www.alltop.com), and make it easy for readers to browse all this content by keywords. It will only show links to the posts of participating bloggers, not the content itself (so we will create referral traffic for you, as opposed to taking it away). We have around a dozen sites around different topics running already, and they have all proven to be very beneficial to the participating bloggers (as they get new readers and social proof by being displayed next to a range of other great sources).
Participation is simple (and free) – we ask that you add into your sidebar a small widget that helps promote the site and collects some social signal data to identify your best content, and we also ask that you announce your participation once things are set up. This way, more people will be able to find the site, and more people will eventually click through to your blog as a result of that.
Please let me know if you’d like to be a part of this endeavor (or if you have any questions), and I will set up your blog right away.
Have a great day,
Paul
Hey Paul,
I’m following up on our invitation to include your blog on http://www.LeadershipDigital.com – we already have a range of great bloggers on board (Marshall Goldsmith, Dan McCarthy, Michael Lee Stallard, and many others), and would love to add you also. It is very easy to join (only thing we ask is that you add a small badge), and you will get a range of benefits – including referral traffic and reputation by association with other influential bloggers in the space.
The three badge images you can choose from can be seen/added at this link: http://www.leadershipdigital.com/build-widget/&blog-group-id=57
Please let me know if you’d like to be a part of this, and I’ll set your blog up right away (you can easily withdraw at any time in the future, should you desire so).
Cheers,
Paul
Hi Paul,
Excellent timing…I’ve been swamped lately and just getting back to posting. Let me know what else you need from me!
Best,
Paul
Hi Paul,
For years I have been wanting to put a blog together around project management and finally got around to it. Would appreciate any type of link exchange and I (of course) have linked your site.
Thanks!
Alvin
http://www.pmfiles.com
[...] from experienced project manager Paul Ritchie, the beauty of this blog is typically found in it’s simplicity. No long rants or lectures here, [...]