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Genna Weiss Leadership Succession Planning: Best Practices for Keeping Your Lean Six Sigma Program Buy-In Intact

What is your deployment team supposed to do when it suddenly finds itself having to make the case for Lean Six Sigma all over again? Your organization has put in the hard work to deploy a Lean Six Sigma or continuous process improvement program, but it’s suddenly struck by... Read more http:… Continue

Added by Genna Weiss on November 6, 2009 at 6:57am — No Comments

Genna Weiss Nortel’s Process Performance Dashboard

David Adkins, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt—Global Operations for Nortel, shares his insights at the 10th Annual IQPC Process Excellence Summit and Awards with Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ. Topics of discussion: Nortel’s current Process Excellence program, Methods that Nortel is taking to map out its processes, Metrics used to measure Nortel’s processes, Nortel’s process performance dashboard and how it’s being utilized to drive business results… Continue

Added by Genna Weiss on November 6, 2009 at 6:56am — No Comments

Chris Gayner Leveraging Technology to Provide Better HR Services with Fewer Resources and Lower Costs

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about transforming the Human Resources function to be a true business partner. Generally defined, HR transformation means spending less time on administration and transactions, and more time on adding value as close as possible to the business units. Easier said than done – and the reason is simple...… Continue

Added by Chris Gayner on November 6, 2009 at 5:42am — No Comments

Chris Gayner Cognizant's SVP comments on the definitive agreement to acquire UBS

Cognizant has announced the acquisition of UBS's India Service Center subsidiary. Will we be seeing more 'buy' rather than 'build?' Prasad Chintamaneni, Senior Vice President, and head of Banking & Financial Services Practice comments… http://www.ssonetwork.com/topic_detail.aspx… Continue

Added by Chris Gayner on November 6, 2009 at 5:40am — No Comments

Miles Project Managers on Twitter

Just a quick update on our Twitter List for Project Managers... it has gained a lot of exposure and followers and is the most followed list for project managers on Twitter. If you are active with Twitter, please be sure to send me a note so I can put you on the list. Please just write me a note through Twitter - either to my personal Twitter account @milesj or… Continue

Added by Miles on November 5, 2009 at 8:54pm — No Comments

Miles Last Week's Update

I hope everyone had a wonderful Autumn weekend. The leaves in my yard are actually all raked up, which is early for me. I feel highly successful. ;) Twitter developed something pretty cool last week – lists! I made a big list of lots of project managers - people in our groups and website community. So now you can follow this list to see everything that's going on in the project management community in one place. Pretty neat, huh? You can follow the list of… Continue

Added by Miles on November 5, 2009 at 8:48pm — No Comments

Cindy Vandersleen Scope is King - The Public Relations of Project Management Management Part 3

In PMI’s (Project Management Institute’s) Project Management Body of Knowledge or PMBOK – which is the bible of project management, there are 9 knowledge areas discussed– Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, and Procurement. Anyone who has studied for their PMP certification knows these well – ad nauseum even, and knows that the PMBOK discusses these with equal weight. Indeed, PMI loves all of her knowledge area “children” equally, but out in the real w… Continue

Added by Cindy Vandersleen on November 5, 2009 at 12:10pm — No Comments

Chris Davies Project management vs Paper management

Back in the early nineties I reached a point where I had just one more promotion to shoot for before reaching the end of the (technical) ladder. And there was only one place available in the entire company. So either I stagnated or changed direction. I approached my boss and told him I wanted to go into project management. "Oh, you don't want this job," he told me emphatically. The problem was, his job was not project management, but IT team management. We had component-based teams and he ran… Continue

Added by Chris Davies on November 5, 2009 at 7:24am — No Comments

Chris Gayner Wipro beats expectations and posts 19% increase in Q2 net profit

Wipro has announced a year on year 19% increase in net profits to Rs 11.71 billion ($243 million) and a year on year 6% rise in revenues to Rs 69.18 billion ($1.44 billion) for the quarter. The revenue growth by Service Line was 5% IT Services, 18% IT Products, 11% Consumer Care, 7% BPO and 16% for Consulting... read more »… Continue

Added by Chris Gayner on November 5, 2009 at 5:34am — No Comments

Chris Gayner Measuring Customer Satisfaction, Meeting Expectations & Continuing to Deliver Value to Your Organization

Wal-Mart received the runner-up award for 'Best New Captive Services Delivery' at the 13th annual Shared Services Week in Orlando. Michael Lockard shared insight on how Wal-Mart Finance Shared Services continues to deliver valuable financial services to Wal-Mart’s business and support units at a competitive cost and quality.… Continue

Added by Chris Gayner on November 5, 2009 at 5:33am — No Comments

Shawn Futterer, PMP Good Management

Each person has his or her own way of doing things. However, when a young manager faces a new situation, he/she has only two choices – sink or swim. It won’t be too bad if he/she uses an underrated quality that most managers take for granted: common sense. Apart from this, there are five broad areas that a young manager should look into as part of good management. They are time management, delegation, awareness and responsibility, accessibility, and firmness. Read Full Article… Continue

Added by Shawn Futterer, PMP on November 4, 2009 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Chris Gayner HR Roundtable: Making HR a true partner to your business

As part of the HR Series in association with Neocase Software Ltd, this roundtable session considers how Shared Service Centers can implement a business partnering concept in a HR function By: Niamh Byrne, Online Editor, SSON, Participants: Craig Warren, Global Head of HRSS, Rockwell Automation Penny Munro, Head of People Process, E-On Siv Oftedal, VP HR Shared Services, StatoilHydro Keith Jackson, Senior Solution Consultant, Neocase Software Ltd. SSON: What direction do you see your HR SSC… Continue

Added by Chris Gayner on November 4, 2009 at 4:44am — No Comments

Chris Gayner Shared Services and Strategic Business Alignment

'When we talk about Purpose and Vision within Shared Services Strategic Alignment, we have to look at Shared Service initiatives beyond the simple cost reduction exercises...' By: Niamh Byrne, Online Editor, SSON, SSON spoke to Davide Laghi, Founder and Managing Director of Y6Sigma®, at the 9th Annual Shared Services and Outsourcing Week in Budapest about the importance of Strategic Business Alignment in Shared Services. SSON: Davide you are chairing the Blue Sky Room at this year's Shared Se… Continue

Added by Chris Gayner on November 4, 2009 at 4:42am — No Comments

Diana Justis IT Project Score Cards (Is it time to lower the bar?)

Due to the current economic conditions, many positions have been eliminated. This often results in the remaining Project Managers and project team members picking up much larger work loads. Due to increased work loads, is it time to consider lowering our project performance expectations a bit? Has anyone seen any recent IT industry trends concerning realignment (raising or lowering of the bar) on IT Project Score Cards? Continue

Added by Diana Justis on November 3, 2009 at 11:09am — No Comments

Chris Gayner Services Delivery and Sourcing Update - 3 November 2009

READ THE ENTIRE ISSUE HERE: http://image.exct.net/lib/fef716717c6301/d/1/Gateway_3_November_2009_Web.html - Become an SSON member: http://www.ssonetwork.com/my_account_membership.aspx - Join the SSON LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/56376/55D6680BCA2A - Follow SSO… Continue

Added by Chris Gayner on November 3, 2009 at 5:36am — No Comments

Ron Holohan, MBA PMP Five tips for more effective status reports

Recently I was interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts, The Bigg Success Show, and I provided George and Mary-Lynn with 2 Tips for More Effective Project Status Reports. Below I provide three additional tips for a total of five tips that will help you write status reports that people will actually read! Tip #1 - Know your audience! Ask yourself these questions: - Who will be reading your status report? Team members? Management? Your customer? - What level of detail does your audien… Continue

Added by Ron Holohan, MBA PMP on November 2, 2009 at 9:02pm — No Comments

Ron Holohan, MBA PMP 6 Steps for Successful Schedules

Creating a comprehensive schedule is one of the more difficult activities that Project Managers face. Schedule creation is often considered more art than science - and results often support this. What is often more frustrating is that team members often find themselves on one team with a project manager that creates and manages schedules a particular way and on another team with a project manager with a different approach. I often hear from people on teams, "why can't all project managers do th… Continue

Added by Ron Holohan, MBA PMP on November 2, 2009 at 8:55pm — No Comments

Dr Anthony Yeong, PMP International Standard on Project Management?

PMBOK is the de facto project management approach in America and in the most of the world. However, PRINCE2 has a long history in UK and most of Europe countries. PRINCE2 is still in use in government bodies and large organization in Europe. Australia has adopted both PMBOK and PRINCE2 in managing projects. Interestingly, Australia has its own National Project Management Competency framework and certification. If you are managing projects in Japan or dealing with Japanese projects, it is worth t… Continue

Added by Dr Anthony Yeong, PMP on November 2, 2009 at 7:03pm — No Comments

Roger Fance Agile project case studies

Have you recently managed an Agile software development project? Are you proud of the result and want to share your success with others? Or did you strike difficulties and challenges along the way and would like to help others understand the pitfalls of managing an Agile project? If you would like to share your experiences, why not post a case study in the PPMNG Group "The Agile Project Manager" ? We woul… Continue

Added by Roger Fance on November 2, 2009 at 6:54pm — No Comments

Elyse Nielsen Helping new sponsor understand the Joys of Sponsorship

The truth be told, a new sponsor may need help understanding with their role. PMO’s often have onboarding processes for new project managers, they should also consider extending support to project sponsors. A sponsor may need to understand their roles and responsibilities as they add this extra helping to their already full plate. Sponsors normally are either the directors or managers of an organization. These individuals have excelled in their area of expertise and been placed in management ro… Continue

Added by Elyse Nielsen on October 31, 2009 at 11:02am — No Comments

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