Jan29
Well, I started this three part post back in September, then got caught up in other things, and never quite got around to finishing it. I thought for a while of taking the Douglas Adams approach to trilogies: “Check out these two blog posts, giving a whole new meaning to the term ‘Three Part Series.’” However, finding myself to be a posterchild for the Language Action Perspective, I felt that...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Friday, 29 Jan 2010 11:41.
Sep28
So if you read my previous post, you’re probably wondering just what this has to do with Project Portfolio Management, ITIL and Fractal Organizations – or why I equate PPM and ITIL – and probably some of you are wondering just what ITIL is exactly. Well, today, let’s talk about Project Management, specifically the processes identified in the PMBOK (2nd through 4th editions if you’re particular...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 28 Sep 2009 02:10.
Sep17
When I was doing PMP training in Central Ohio, I used to have a lot of students from the Honda plant in Marysville, and from a lot of the Honda suppliers. I don’t know how true this is, but several of them told me the following story, which is a great illustrative anecdote:
At Honda, it’s the line workers that know the best about how to improve processes on the assembly line. Each worker i...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 17 Sep 2009 11:18.