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Posted in Law Processes, Process Analysis, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management, Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2011
Harvard Computing Group is pleased to announce the general availability of TaskMap 4.0.5, a minor update to the very successful release of TaskMap 4. We recommend that all current TaskMap 4 users update their copies of TaskMap to take advantage of this interim release. TaskMap 4.0.5 includes a number of fixes that will improve [...]
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 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 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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2011
Here is a short tutorial on the methods and benefits of using Check my TaskMap. Check My TaskMap helps to validate the correctness of your TaskMap. You can use it to: Ensure that both ends of all Task Links are glued to a Task, Connector, Start or End shape. Ensure that every Task has a [...]
Posted in Process Mapping, Project Management, Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2011
This weeks post focused mainly on the use of TaskMap in legal applications. Process Mapping in the Legal Profession: Part 3 Posted in Process Mapping on Sep 15th, 2011 Connecting the dots Process maps can help with connecting the elements of your tasks in the process, and provide even more value as they are [...]
Posted in Process Mapping, Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2011
Register here Presenter: Scott A. Helmers Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US Pacific Daylight Time PDT About the webinar Creating attractive, meaningful diagrams is easier in Visio 2010 than in any previous release. In this webcast, you will see live demonstrations of the top 10 new features in Visio 2010 and [...]
Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2011
We all recognize leadership in projects, businesses and organizations. Today, in the United States we are looking hard to find it in our politicians. Now this is not a political column, but there are times when we look around us and just despair at the lack of leadership. The summer of 2011 will go down [...]
Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2011
For those of you in the US, a very Happy 4th of July celebration, for everyone else in the world, enjoy your weekend. A reflective week of blog posts for your reading. Sincerely, Mike Cunningham On being undefeatable Posted in Change Management, Project Management, Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2011 Someone recently [...]
Posted in Change Management, Project Management, Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2011
Someone recently made me ponder the difference was between being undefeatable and undefeated. Few of us go through, I could say none of us, go through life undefeated. We lose a battle, mess something up, come second in a two team game. It happens. Observers smarter than me, and all historians and psychologists I know [...]
Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2011
Article first published as Obama IT Czar leaves D.C. for Harvard on Technorati. Will his successor follow his ambitious 25 point plan? After two and half years on the job, Vivek Kundra has resigned as Chief Information Officer of the United States government. No reasons were given, but the Harvard fellowship must have been attractive [...]
Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2011
See recent posts including our new SOX Expert TaskMap Edition announcement. Project Management by delegation Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 13th, 2011 One way to ensure buy-in for the project is to transfer goals and responsibilities during the kick-off meeting. Make it clear who is responsible for each task and gain acceptance during the [...]
Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on May 30th, 2011
Early today, I happened to watch a great current affairs program on CSPAN (a US current affairs program that has no ads, real reporters and direct interviews on a daily basis). Several topics began with the one of mandatory holidays and vacations. The call in program that resulted brought some balanced comments, several crazy ones [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Discovery, Process Mapping, Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2010
Starting your process discovery activity means asked questions. The list below includes many of the general-purpose questions that are typically asked during the Discovery Phase of a Process Capture project. Most questions will be asked in multiple interviews and at multiple times during a Process Capture workshop. 11. What happens if the decision outcome is: [...]
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