I am a working mom of three wonderful kids, but seriously getting three kids up, ready, fed and out the door can be an epic challenge every single day. If you have kids like mine they never seen to remember the tasks that need to be done everyday. The same tasks never change but they can’t seem … Continue reading »
Mobile free for a day?
One of my personal challenges for this year was to pick a day each week where I could go mobile free. I did make the caveat that I would need to take phone calls as I do have 3 kids that are involved in all sorts of activities and the project manager in myself set up a … Continue reading »
Personal challenges for 2013
The following are my personal challenges for 2013 1. I will double twitter followers (260) 2. I will take Agile Scrum Master training and become certified 3. I will not send 1 word emails 4. I will participate in an open source project 5. I will deploy a PAAS- Web/Database/Rest Application 6. I will blog … Continue reading »
Review of my resolutions for 2012
For the last 10 years or so, I have worked for a large company, where like most companies do, they had a process for setting yearly goals and reviewing them at times. Looking back at how I set these goals, I believe that I failed my true career in a lot of ways. I can remember … Continue reading »
“Are we there yet” – A Project Roadtrip
As a Project Manager, I have found the first question (other than cost) most managers ask you regarding a project is “when will the project be done”. It never seemed to matter what phase of the project you were in or even if the manager had just turned the project over to you that same … Continue reading »
68 Camaro of Projects
I have worked on so many different types of projects in my career that looking back at them some times is alot of fun. I look back and think of the projects that took years to complete, ones that went off the road and ones that even went off cliffs. However, the ones that really stick … Continue reading »
Oh you are a PM, so you just collect status all day?
A few weeks ago someone asked what it was I did for my job. I am a Project Manager I said. The reply I got back was something for my record books. ”Oh so you just collect status all day”. The thought of punching someone in the nose did come to mind and then I … Continue reading »
My road to becoming a PMP
About 6 years ago, I started working as a project coordinator and business analyst. It seemed like an interesting job, gather requirements, scheduling project tasks and raise issues up the food chain if things starting going sideways. As I started working on various projects and with various teams I began to realize just how difficult project coordination … Continue reading »
Why in the world would a PM want to install an app in a PaaS?
For quite a while now I have been managing projects for cloud deployments both private and public. I have seen applications developed, applications fail, infrastructure go in, firewalls configured, DNS set up, servers built, handoffs to teams fail and succeed, and the list could go on and on. I have detailed project plans that are … Continue reading »
