PM World Today Letters To The Editor
Letters to the Editor are comments on the Editorials, Viewpoints column or other project management notices that appear in issues of the Project Management World Today.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
PMO: COST CENTER OR PROFIT CENTER?
I loved your editorial on PMOs. Most people don't know it but in the 1960s many organizations had PMOs in central PM groups in the computer departments who ran large CPM systems on the central computer and were supposed to help the individual PMs with various services. In 1968 I did a workshop for 10 contruction project managers at Kodak. They all had been getting 2 inch thick printouts of the CPM from the central PMO once a month for several years and not one had ever looked at the printout! In some cases the central group reported possible delays in projects to top management without checking with the PM who had a plan to stay on schedule. When a RIF (reduction in force) came along no one supported the PMO!!!
Bob Youker
Bob Youker
Thursday, April 20, 2006
WHO ARE THE TRUE LEADERS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT?
Hugh
I was somewhere between disgusted and ashamed when I read the PMI article about the top 50; incredulous probably fits also. Thank you for providing the stimulus that loosed the flurry (avalanche? flood? firehose? indignation? disbelief?) reflected in recent letters to the editor. I want to add my voice to those castigating/ berating/ admonishing/ criticizing/??/??/?? PMI for their selection. Please add my name to the list of those protesting and, in my case at least, indignant. I will not cite true leaders that should have been listed as your editorial and the prior readers' comments do that adequately.
In the interest of fairness, I would like to see PMForum issue a formal, net-published and also postal-service-delivered invitation to the PMI Board of Directors and to Mr. Balestrero to present the rationale for selection, the criteria, and the sources of voting input in arriving at this list. I would suggest that PMForum, speaking on behalf of a significant number of long term dedicated and passionate-about-PM PMI members, request a response to PMForum including the provision that the Board of Directors respond as a Board as well as by the individual member(s). This latter should be given in light of both their acting as reprersentative(s) of the membership that elected them AND of their stated aims, intents and promises contained in
their "election platform" published in connection with the balloting.
Eric Jenett, PMI Founder, Member #3, Fellow, PMP #1 (ret)
I was somewhere between disgusted and ashamed when I read the PMI article about the top 50; incredulous probably fits also. Thank you for providing the stimulus that loosed the flurry (avalanche? flood? firehose? indignation? disbelief?) reflected in recent letters to the editor. I want to add my voice to those castigating/ berating/ admonishing/ criticizing/??/??/?? PMI for their selection. Please add my name to the list of those protesting and, in my case at least, indignant. I will not cite true leaders that should have been listed as your editorial and the prior readers' comments do that adequately.
In the interest of fairness, I would like to see PMForum issue a formal, net-published and also postal-service-delivered invitation to the PMI Board of Directors and to Mr. Balestrero to present the rationale for selection, the criteria, and the sources of voting input in arriving at this list. I would suggest that PMForum, speaking on behalf of a significant number of long term dedicated and passionate-about-PM PMI members, request a response to PMForum including the provision that the Board of Directors respond as a Board as well as by the individual member(s). This latter should be given in light of both their acting as reprersentative(s) of the membership that elected them AND of their stated aims, intents and promises contained in
their "election platform" published in connection with the balloting.
Eric Jenett, PMI Founder, Member #3, Fellow, PMP #1 (ret)
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