A Pact for PMPs: Start Living by the Code

by kpodnar on February 10, 2010

Somewhere in my drawer there is a copy of the code of ethics one agrees to in order to become a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI). I tend not to look at it much, but come across it from time to time as I rearrange my drawer.
As I [...]

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What is a Project without a Project Manager?

by kpodnar on August 25, 2009

When uncertainty strikes within an undefined project, it is the project manager (PM) within me that wants to stand up and take charge. Maybe I don’t know the right thing to do, don’t know how it should all end, but I know in my gut that I need to organize, need to communicate, need to [...]

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Just Call Me

by kpodnar on July 13, 2009

Over the past three days, numerous folks have asked me whether I use Google Phone or if I ever used Grand Central. Yes and yes. I like Grand Central more, but Google Phone is just as well I suppose. I rarely use it. But it has started me to wonder whether slews of organizations will [...]

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A Call for Application Portfolio Management

by kpodnar on June 2, 2009

So I have neglected my blog as project life has taken over, and all I have been doing as of late is living and breathing CPIC, PMO, and on odd days, legacy systems and a COBOL mainframe evaluation. Time for a vacation really!
But all of the stuff is interesting, and certainly going on because of [...]

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Anatomy of a Good Project Team

by kpodnar on April 22, 2009

As I sat in a meeting this morning I forced myself to repeat the nine knowledge areas of PMBOK, alphabetically, as well as sequentially. Really, I was trying to jump start my brain at a ridiculously early hour of the morning, and as the PM areas rolled through my head… Project Integration Management, Project Time [...]

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Most everyone knows “the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry”. At least you do if you endured John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” in high school.  And just like in the novel, all great visions of Web governance have their ups and downs. Hopefully yours won’t end the same way that George [...]

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Dawn of a new challenge

by kpodnar on March 26, 2009

After nearly two years away from NativeTrust, I am excited to be back and doing some freelance work.  Over the past several years, I spent time with Lisa Welchman and the WelchmanPierpoint team mussing on Web Operations Management, and more frequently on Web Governance.
I look forward to continuing the discussion on governance in this old, [...]

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