A few years ago I was managing a complex enterprise program where we had a status review meeting with our vendor every Wednesday. I inherited these meetings from my predecessor. Weekly reviews are important, so I kept them. We had appropriate representation with myself, the vendor, and the program’s key stakeholders. We had a weekly [...]
Read more and share your opinion →I’m going to have another rant today. Over the last few years, I’ve been surrounded by genuinely talented freelancers who perform phenomenal work. As is often the case, professionals and small businesses subcontract these freelancers to perform work for their clients. Subcontracting freelancers [...]
Read more and share your opinion →In a much earlier post, I mentioned I’d had the unique opportunity to work on outsourcing projects both from the buy side, and from the sell side. Today I want to talk a bit about that, and explain why I feel outsourcing is just an awful idea, and hurts [...]
Read more and share your opinion →Dear Mr. Harper:
I’m not your number one fan. Okay, I’m not really a fan at all. Okay, let’s dispense with the niceties…I think you’re an ass.
However, I must acknowledge that your office is faced with difficult decisions. Decisions like, where to hold the G20 summit, for example.
One possibility would be to select [...]
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I'm Geoff Crane. After 22 years in the trenches of a lot of tough projects, I decided to change direction a little bit and focus on sparking ideas in the vibrant field of project management.
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