You can’t escape conflict. Regardless of what you do or where your place of employment is, if you are dealing with people, you are going to be dealing with conflict. In extreme cases, a conflict can turn into a spiteful and costly lawsuit or worse. Two team members who experience a conflict of personality [...]

Among the numerous types of organization management structures, the functional organizational structure finds its place. An organization needs structure for achieving common goals – the functional model is structured hierarchically with a strong concept of subordination. Most companies in the modern era rely upon this functional/hierarchical model.
In the functional organization, each job becomes the focus [...]

Danielle Baker had an interesting post over on PMHut about Project Management vs. ITIL release management.
It seems that quite a few people are confused by the distinction. In fact, I’ve even noticed that senior IT folks don’t understand the difference between implementing a PMO, an SDLC, or implementing ITIL. I guess most C-Level’s just want [...]