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SaaS PM/PPM ROI for a CIO of a Mid Market Company |
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Nick Matteucci - Virtual Teamwork with Real Results
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By Nick Matteucci on
12/16/2008 11:20 PM
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SaaS PM/PPM ROI for a CIO of a Mid Market Company
You promised yourself you wouldn't do it. You wouldn't look at your Blackberry during the Monday morning project update and prioritization meetings. You just can't help yourself and decide to do a quick check of the company's stock price. Ouch, down another 7%. That will teach you for breaking your promise.
It isn't that you don't care what your directors are telling you, it is just that you can't DO anything with the information.
Every week it is the same thing. Every project is "OK" everyone is "working hard", and every new initiative is "high priority".
You have questions in your head that you don't dare speak because you know that nobody has the answers.
How many projects are in Yellow or Red status?
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CIO Fortune 500 Hitchhiker's Guide to Saving Money with SaaS PPM |
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Nick Matteucci - Virtual Teamwork with Real Results
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By Nick Matteucci on
11/27/2008 6:30 PM
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Something is really upsetting you and you just can't get your head around it. You look at the half eaten chicken wrap next to you but you know that isn't it.
You worked for years throughout operations, development, and billing. You ability to forge alliances in the business and to deliver consistent results with comparatively small budgets landed you the CIO job. Now that you are here you wonder where "here" is and how to get "there" in this disastrous financial climate.
You start reviewing the metrics on your desk you asked for 3 weeks ago and received this morning. The project and portfolio management information you thought would be "real-time" apparently took over a hundreds hours to prepare and nearly shut down the whole management staff. Sigh - 100 hours of effort to produce some simple reports that are already out of date. That will teach you for asking your directors "what is going on?"
Looking over the numbers the first one grabs your attention. IT spent over 1,000,000 hours on projec
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What's wrong with green hats? |
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Timothy Porter - PM in China
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By Timothy Porter on
10/7/2008
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Recently a potential partner arrived in China for detailed discussion and negotiation about a long term partnership. The Chinese are great hosts with extravagant welcoming banquets and small (or not) gifts like Hangzhou's famous Longjin green tea or locally produced silk items. Understanding this tradition our guests came prepared with several mementos. One of these was a green (their company color) hat complete with logos and special messages. Well, there was great reluctance to accept such gifts but our guests persisted in forcing acceptance. Of course they did not realize that in China "green hats" or Lu Maozi have a special significance. One is said to have a green hat when your wife has been cheating on you. And in fact foreigners wearing green hats in public will receive more than their fair share of strange looks and stares.
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