Here are all the slides and associated checklist file for my talk today at WordCamp Saratoga on October 11th, 2014....

As leaders and managers, we often consider and manage by our span of control. We look out at our horizon and see the ground that needs to be walked so we can achieve completion of the current endeavors at hand....

Ah the eternal question, to define what something is so that one understands it. The question arises what is a program? Im not referring to our friendly and ever evolving computer programs here, but in more of a strategic and...

This past week was an exciting week. I had my first opportunity to attend the PMI Global Congress in North America. Thanks to PMI for covering the conference fees and selecting our presentation on engaging leadership for the healthcare track....

Remember the cavalier way of implementing a solution back in the good old days. In some manner, a request was approved for a new system. Instead of looking out for a canned commercial solution, there would be a meeting a...

The time has come around again to post the Eighth Edition of the IT Management Review. As you know the IT Management Review is a sharing of the blog posts on Informaiton Technology Management. Mandy Chatsworth presents Seeing Green: Ideas...

On projects and delivery there comes a time when you just need to move forward and get it out of the starting gate to the box. The ugly truth is that most corporations cant afford perfection and we need to...

With the XOOM and the IPAD, the need to have end-user device agnostic deployments is rising. Long gone are the days of standardizing on Windows XP Desktops with IE 7. Todays Healthcare IT organizations need to have flexibility and approach...

If you work in IT, you have felt the joys of technical debt. Technical debt is the catch phrase that captures all that built up debt every time a solution is "good enough with a smidge of manual intervention". Often...

Congratulations, you have decided to take the plunge and investigate outsourcing your email system. Now is time to take a good frank look at what you currently have in-house for email, and the application dependencies upon the email system ....

As project managers we understand the art of influence. We understand the need to motivate and listen, and develop a working productive relationship with our colleagues. We collaborate with the team and find a way to make progress. Often this...

A couple of months ago, Gartner placed out the new list of technologies to watch for 2011. Good news is there are some new ones, and some old ones. A couple have been dropped from last years watch list. Without...

Once again we had a great HIMSS in Orlando. It was good to see everyone, as usual, I took the Wednesday opportunity to walk the vendor floor. One thing I noted was that the floor was missing "the-buzz" of Cloud...

Sometimes, the view from the inside looking outside, is very different from the view of the outside looking inside. As a program manager you need to be cognizant of the Warning Signs of a failing program and know how to...

Currently healthcare organizations have entered into the perfect portfolio storm. We have some big ones on the horizon, ICD10, Achieving the HITECH Stimulus, Assuring the infrastructure is up to date to run the HITECH Stimulus, and several growth and community...