The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This post queries whether a Chief Information Officer (CIO) position might be a good and realistic goal for a project manager. We’ll come back to that later after surveying the landscape. Strategic Roles – Transition to strategic roles such as IT strategy consultant, business analyst, or enterprise architect.

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The Strategic Project Manager

JANUARY 9, 2024

Project Management As a Stop on the Path to CEO In his HBR article, “The Leap from Project Manager to CEO Is Hard – But Not Impossible”, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez provides and excellent survey of what PM skills might lead one to a CEO position. PM skills will help!

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If running the cargo cult agile survey is the ‘inspection,’ then consider adapting your approach to being agile by kicking-off a discussion among the stakeholders of your organization’s endeavor. Do you want to get articles like this one on agile micromanagement in your inbox? What Is the Purpose of the Cargo Cult Agile Survey?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Our team at Envorso, a boutique consulting company comprised of West Coast software and Rust Belt manufacturing leaders from companies like Microsoft, Ford Motor Company, Meta, and Rivian, has been front and center for this massive transformation.

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MPUG

AUGUST 31, 2020

Here is what is so baffling especially now: all non-US contracts I’ve ever signed include a boiler-plate Force majeure clause, but those are clicked through faster than the legalese on a social media app, and this class of risk is rarely reflected in any of the planning exercises that these contracts pertain to. Have you taken it yet?

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

I am the director of technology solutions and CTO for Edwards Performance Solutions. We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. This is part one of the series.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. I’m the director of technology solutions and the CTO for the company. And there’s just a quote here from a consultant in the DC area that says, “Managing a project without metrics is like sailing a ship without a compass.”

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