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Posted in Change Management, Project Management on Nov 28th, 2011
This long weekend in the USA, tied around the Thanksgiving holiday, is rooted in family renewal and enjoyment. In America, that also means an opportunity to get ready for the upcoming “giving season” of Christmas and Hanukah. Retailers typical get up to 40% of their annual sales in this period, so nothing is left behind [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2011
Thanksgiving is a holiday I have come to cherish since moving to the USA in 1984. A time to renew and enjoy family time together, regardless of religion, race or location. We hope that all families savor this time, and perhaps even take that extra step to forgive someone in your family that needs to [...]
Posted in Process Improvement, Project Management on Nov 22nd, 2011
This blog is now in video/audio format for your listening pleasure. The need to refine narrated by Michael Cunningham Download in podcast mpg3 format The need to refine
Posted in Process Mapping on Nov 21st, 2011
At this time of year in the north east, I get ready to put the skis on again, as I have a weekend job as PSIA instructor. The ski industry in recent years, has become dominated by lessons for children and young adults, 80% of lessons are given to that group. So each year, at [...]
Posted in Change Management, Project Management on Nov 18th, 2011
Thinking Things Through with Mike Cunningham This week, we are introducing a new feature, a video blog of one of the posts from the week. Please let me know if you like this feature. Podcast Thinking Things Through mpg3 audio file Project and Processes (responses to the questions) Posted in Change Management, Process Mapping, Project [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Mapping, Project Management on Nov 16th, 2011
It’s been a while since we wrote about the issue of processes and projects. These often get muddled up, mainly because we tend to look at the disciplines as being very different. For example would a business analyst call themselves a project manager, or vice versa? The answer of course depends on the person. Vendors, [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on Nov 15th, 2011
It’s been a while since we wrote about the issue of processes and projects. These often get muddled up, mainly because we tend to look at the disciplines as being very different. For example would a business analyst call themselves a project manager, or vice versa? The answer of course depends on the person. Vendors, [...]
Posted in Change Management, Project Management on Nov 14th, 2011
What happens when another factor in a project has changed again? How do you react to that situation? Can you deal with ever changing priorities and the moving targets of budgets, priorities, resource changes and more. It’s a complex subject, and unfortunately, one that is sometimes fraught with politics and emotion. We all feel like [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Process Mapping, Project Management on Nov 11th, 2011
A friend of mine gave me a heads up that today would be the last day that the date would have a nice digital ring to for the rest of my lifetime. Here is the blog summary for the month so far. Monthly Archive for November, 2011 TaskMap Automated tutorial: TaskMap Capture for Excel [...]
Posted in Process Discovery on Nov 10th, 2011
See below TaskMap Capture for Excel automated tutorial. We should have the entire set complete within the next week and on the web site. The toolbar with TaskMap Capture for Excel functions near the left hand side.
Posted in Process Improvement, Project Management on Nov 8th, 2011
Many new customers are making extensive use of the customizing fields in TaskMap 4 Professional. In addition to creating these new fields, there are now options to set field types, lists and even create your own custom graphics to represent those fields. Typical applications include: Project management start and end times Work break down structures [...]
Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2011
I don’t know if you are like me, but sometimes there seems to be just too much going on. For me that’s always a bit of a dichotomy; as I enjoy having varied interests and am pretty good at multitasking. However, there are times when it just gets a little out of control. Chaos around [...]
Posted in Change Management, Legal processes, Process Analysis, Process Improvement, Project Management on Nov 5th, 2011
Yesterday I had a long lunch with a great friend of mine from Sweden. Over the years we have set up new companies together, skied the slopes of New England, seen our families grow together. We have also been through some ups and downs, but have always stayed in touch. We have one of those [...]
Posted in Change Management, Compliance, Legal processes, Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on Nov 3rd, 2011
My mother used to chide me “Michael, self praise is no praise at all!”. When I congratulated myself on achieving something as a child; or if the truth be known, also as a adult. Well at the risk of invoking her comments from heaven, I will congratulate the team and myself on our first full [...]
Posted in Project Management on Nov 2nd, 2011
Every time this month, I get ready for the upcoming ski season as a PSIA instructor. I begin to worry that I have not done enough to get myself into shape for the season, and know those first few days will be harder as a result. Muscles not used for 6 months will be tested [...]
Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on Nov 1st, 2011
This weekend in New England, we suffered one of the biggest power outages since I moved there 19 years ago. Most lost power on Saturday evening, and yesterday there were over 2,000,000 homes and residences without power. New Englanders are pretty resilient and creative, so there were many working from libraries that had power, McDonalds [...]
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