I will be giving a presentation titled, “Optimizing the IT Project Portfolio: Best Practices” at Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, April 4-8, in Chicago.
If you are attending the conference and are able to attend my education session, please feel free to come up and say hello after the presentation.Â
If you can’t attend, send me an e-mail and […]

A popular topic during our project management seminars is the development of a project dashboard using Microsoft Project.  A project dashboard is often an executive view of the status of a project using colored indicators.  Common indicators are the schedule status and the budget status using green, yellow, and red traffic lights.  The example below […]

OK, this is a bit off topic, but I’m an Olympics addict.  In fact as I write this, I have the Olympic Games on in the background.  I don’t get much sleep during the two weeks of the Olympics. Watching the games on TV, I often stay up well past mid-night and turn on the HD […]

I just returned from China. No, I wasn’t there to attend the Olympics, but to witness a total solar eclipse. What does that have to do with project management? I’ll get to that in a moment.
First, a little background. I’m an amateur astronomer and an eclipse chaser. Many of you have probably seen a partial solar […]