Assessing Your Project Management Aptitude

CNET"s TechRepublic blog 10 Things lists ten signs that you aren't cut out to be a project manager. There are a variety of skills and personality characteristics that make a great project leader. You may possess some of them. Yet, if 2-3 of these signs...

7 Habits of Effective Remote Deposit Deployments

Celent's latest remote capture deposit report highlights the gulf between the very few financial institutions that have successfully deployed RDC solutions and the remaining 3000+ whose results are lackluster (see chart below, courtesy of Celent). 7 Habits for...

Taking responsibility for the success of an IT initiative

Check out this exchange of posts between Frank Buytendijk (Oracle/Hyperion) and Tom Hudock (Online Business Systems) about the role of business in IT initiatives (they are particularly concerned with business intelligence but the sentiment holds true for all...

HBR: Performing a Project “Premortem”

(Image courtesy of Steve Pyke) The latest Harvard Business Review suggests performing a project "premortem" to identify project risks before the project has a chance to go off track. Most projects fail, and project teams are reluctant to speak up, so you...

Getting the most from your project team

CFO.com reviews a handful of new (and upcoming) books on team leadership and finds one particularly useful: X-Teams by Deborah Ancona at MIT and Henrik Bresman at INSEAD. Excerpted from CFO.com: The authors lay out a three-part strategy for making X-teams work...