Some very interesting posts this week, including a “direction setting for life” one from Christina J. Valenzuela on Wednesday. Have a great weekend … Mike Cunningham
Summary
Dealing with deviousness and dishonesty in projects
Posted in Change Management, Project Management on May 12th, 2011
Sooner or later, and it’s usually sooner, we all have to deal with someone who is dishonest or dishonorable. There is a reason that many military and other societies put honor so highly on the list of virtues. It’s because of its absence in many other aspects of life. While we may all be looking [...]
Nobody speaks from nowhere
Posted in Change Management, Uncategorized on May 11th, 2011
This speech was written by Christina J. Valenzuela a recent MTS graduate of the School of Divinity at Harvard University. It made it to the last 3 final selections for the 2011 Harvard University commencement address competition and she has kindly given permission to share it on this blog. For more of her writings see [...]
Organize Your Visio Diagrams with Containers and Lists
Posted in Process Discovery, Process Mapping on May 10th, 2011
Free Visio webinar featuring Harvard Computing’s Scott Helmers In many types of Microsoft Visio diagrams, it’s helpful to create visual or logical relationships among sets of shapes. Although you could accomplish this with previous versions of Visio, the results often left a lot to be desired. One of the most intriguing features in Visio 2010 [...]
When the time comes to call it quits
Posted in Change Management, Project Management on May 9th, 2011
A some point in your life you will become involved in a project that doesn’t work out. While mostly in this blog, I try and keep an upbeat atmosphere, with a combination of best practices that will help us have success or “save” a project. However, there are times when you just have to call [...]
