Harvard Business Review’s John Baldoni perhaps says it best, “Credibility is a leader's coin of the realm. With it, she can lead people to the Promised Land; without it, she wanders in the desert of lost expectations.” (http://bit.ly/o7cy4W)

Why does credibility matter? At it’s most fundamental level, it…

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As mentioned in Crisis, Chaos, Panic, and Its Corollary, I had an opportunity to do some software consulting this past month.  In the prior article I discussed the lost productivity resulting from poor communication.

Here, I want to talk about organizational effectiveness as relates to having defined processes.

A…

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This past month, I had the opportunity to do some software consulting.  It was an interesting environment.  Everything was a swirl of chaos, panicked surprise deadlines, and daily crises.  During one meeting, responding to the latest short-cycle deliverable, one person commented, “…we never have time to do things properly.  Are we going to have time to do this one right…?”

The longer I spent with the organization, the…

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This afternoon I came across a LinkedIn comment which lead me to read through an article discussing, “What are the basic principles of IT project management?”  I think the article is really just a piece of linkbait.

The person posting the article added the comment, “Projects progress rapidly until they become 90 percent complete; they then remain 90 percent complete forever.”  The comment is more interesting than the…

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