
ManagementSpeak: What managers say/What they mean
If you subscribe to Keep the Joint Running, you look forward to the new episode of
ManagementSpeak that appears each week at the beginning of the column. If you don’t … welcome to the wonderful world of management euphemism, obfuscation, and
just plain strange elocution.
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Bare Bones Project Management: What you can’t not do Project management is hard work. It requires diligence, attention to detail,
political adroitness, and the ability to survive being pecked to death by ducks.
And there you are, volunteered to manage a project, even though you’ve never received any training in the discipline, by a manager who also lacks the tiniest
shred of an idea of what it takes to successfully manage a project.
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The IT Organizational Performance Model Poster
You’ve read about IT Catalysts’ IT Organizational Performance Model in Keep the Joint Running. It starts with the four major dimensions of IT organizational
performance – Business Alignment, Process Maturity, Technical Architecture, and Human Performance – and drills down to account for the 138 factors that drive IT
effectiveness.
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