Categories: Books & Papers, Project Mgt. Tags: , prince2, prince2 2009
Just a bit more than a year ago, Prince2 2009, with some structural and content changes and a face lift for Prince2, was published. This update was very well received by most people, including myself. I have been heavily using the materials since then, and they have been of great use and – at least [...]
Categories: Books & Papers, MBA Studies, Project Mgt. Tags: , b821, exit champion, project appraisal, project management
As part of B821, I recently read a paper called ‘Why bad projects are so hard to kill’, (Isabelle Royer, [1]). It contains a summary of research into projects that had significant warning signs that something was wrong and were still continued for a long time, causing huge monetary losses. It resonated with some of [...]
Categories: Blog, Books & Papers, Tekkie Stuff, Thoughts Tags: , drm, iphone, prince2, prince2 2009
So I bought this heavily DRM-restricted Prince2 2009 PDF for roughly 100 EUR. It is easy to read on the laptop. So far, so good. I didn’t try printing it yet. Now I thought, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to read it on my iPhone, too? This way I could look things up [...]
Categories: Blog, Books & Papers, Project Mgt. Tags: , prince2, prince2 2009
Though I got my Prince2 certification in 2002, I was more involved with PMI in the last few years. I wanted to refresh my Prince2 knowledge lately, so I bought the Prince2 2009 PDF guide (in German). Thanks Andreas for the link! (See for all available languages here). And what should I say… I was [...]
Categories: Blog, Books & Papers, Business and Change, Thoughts Tags: , cebit, trends
As promised (better late than never), a few more thoughts from the presentation of the results of the ‘IT Studie 2010′ at the Cebit. The study involved about 280 mid-size (min of 200m EUR yearly turnover) to large companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. (see my first Cebit post here) I could not find the [...]
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Back in November of good old 2009, I started with part I of ‘The Myth of Managing Change’. I concluded the first post with the issues often caused by the ‘classic’ change approach. Binney and Williams call this model ‘Organizations as machines’ – Leading. The ‘machine’ model is based on the common view that change [...]
Categories: Agile, Blog, Books & Papers, Business and Change Tags:
Just a brief reading tip today: ‘Lean and Portfolio Management: A Winning Combination in Trying Times’. (Currently, you can download it for free at the link given. Probably for a few days only!) Here’s the abstract: Struggling with the age-old challenge of too much demand and not enough time and resources to do it all? [...]
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I’d like to share an interesting paper with you that I’ve come across during my studies. Those of you who have been through a number of change initiatives will appreciate it, I’m pretty sure! It is called ‘The Myth of Managing Change’, written by George Binney and Colin Williams. You can get a preview via [...]
