... <snip> ... <snip> ... <snip> Then again, why is it not possible to categorise these 'contexts' in order to teach PM students when they have to apply...
Stephan, I admire your enthusiasm but it must be tempered with reality. No-one - I repeat, no-one - can give you ten years' experience in one (or even two or ...
Phil Rutherford
phil_rutherford@...
Nov 5, 2003 11:57 pm
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Dear Friends, I intend to take PMP certification exam within the next 3 months. I will appreciate any advise that would help me in ensuring success. Apart from...
Good day, friends. I am attempting to prepare a gov't proposal for a web-based tutorail and am pretty much stumped. The technology aspect of PM is very new to...
YOU MAY FOLLOW : **1 Best take the test in the PMI site ( Tab certification and then 2nd box PMP and preparations), anyone can take this test and see the...
What Angyan fails to inform us in his email is must of Yancy's material is based on the 1996 PMBOK. Look elsewhere, do not use Yancy, many of his questions...
... Sathia -- I would suggest that you check out <PMPExamForum@yahoogroups.com>. There is a wealth of good advice there -- lost of useful postings as well as a...
... The differences between the 1996 version and the 2000 version are minor and mostly trivial. Someone who took the exam without ever seeing the 2000 version...
Now, that was useful information for all of us, PM prospects, lost in a clo= ud of materials, links and courses that don't get with the expectations and...
Phil, Thank you for your long and thought provoking reply. I envy your students. I guess when I posted my question I already knew this answer was coming. Also...
Stephan, Thank you for your thoughtful response. First up I must apologise if I came across as pooh-poohing experience. I am not. Experience is good but only...
Phil Rutherford
phil_rutherford@...
Nov 13, 2003 9:23 am
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Dear Phil, ... You wrote that about three years ago. I have heard arguments that a person should know general management first prior to going into Project...
Sathia, I'm not sure of what the argument is for learning general management before project management but in my experience and according to everything I've ...
Phil Rutherford
phil_rutherford@...
Nov 13, 2003 9:58 pm
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Phil, One way to look at this is to ask where the "value proposition" is being made. In general management the role of PM is a critical success factor. PM as a...
Fascinating! This thread just resurfaced. The original post, by host Michael Greer, was put up in 2000, before I joined this list. My response, then, is a...
Fred, Grate reference. We struggle everyday with the "train watching" aspects of level of effort activities and how to "Projectize" these activities into our...
Glen, Agreed - but it depends on what level of the organisation one is aiming the 'value' at. If, for example, we are starting at the factory floor level where...
Phil Rutherford
phil_rutherford@...
Nov 14, 2003 12:19 am
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Interesting observation. You can "become aware" of things from others people's experience, and can know what to avoid based on other's experience, but...
Amen ... From: "Dobbins, James H, CTR, OSD-ATL" <James.Dobbins.CTR@...> To: <PM-Talk@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:14 AM Subject: RE:...
Phil Rutherford
phil_rutherford@...
Nov 14, 2003 7:23 am
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Phil, As one who advocates top-to-bottom projectization I agree with you position of board room to shop floor. BUT, as one who is tasked with cascading...
Glen, Thanks for your comments. I agree with them, so do a lot of people who are finding that balanced scorecard and managing the performance of people in ...
Phil Rutherford
phil_rutherford@...
Nov 15, 2003 12:03 am
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... Phil -- What you characterize as Balanced Scorecard above sounds more like ABC (Activity Based Costing). BSC is an approach to strategic planning that ...
Dear Friends, Can I then sum up this way using the underlying assumption that Business leads PM? Top Down Scenario: Board Room(1) => Strategic Planning(2) =>...
Sathia, I would say you're pretty well on the mark here and, yes, the bottom-up scenario is the most difficult from an organisational point of view but not ...
Phil Rutherford
phil_rutherford@...
Nov 15, 2003 8:46 pm
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Dear Phil, Yours is an excellent pointer: that objectives of various levels ought to be adequately catered for. In practice, how do we achieve that? Unless it...
Phil, Balanced Scorecard is one of those topics where reading and listening about the practice and practicing the practice are more than night and day (if they...
My name is Robert Encarnacion. I'm a grad student at SDSU's Edtec program. Hope to learn from this group a little bit about PM issues and strategies to deal...
For those who may be wondering what's the difference between doing managing IT with project management processes and managing IT with balanced Scorecard...
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