Golf Careers
Golf careers, and the golf industry in general, seem to show no sign of letting up, even in this down economy. Here’s an intro video that discusses some of the possible careers you could have in the golf industry.
Golf careers, and the golf industry in general, seem to show no sign of letting up, even in this down economy. Here’s an intro video that discusses some of the possible careers you could have in the golf industry.
One of my hobbies is making home videos, using my digital camera and video editing software. I have a lot of fun playing with photos and video clips to make them all blend together in an attractive short video.
Here are a few tips for producing great home videos.
I think you will find, like I did, that making home videos can be quite addictive and enjoyable. Here is the video I was talking about — I stayed up half the night making this one!
Owning a boat is something that you would think a celebrity might do right? Certainly there are plenty of superstars out there who own their own boats. It’s not quite the same as owning a boat when you’re a regular person though.
Owning a boat is a big responsibility. It’s a great luxury for the average person and totally worth all that it requires but it’s a responsibility nonetheless. You need to be able to maintain the boat, replace parts as needed, take it out regularly, pay for the slip that it’s in and so on. When you’re a celebrity, you can just pay someone to do that. You can hire someone to tell you that you need new OMC parts or Mercruiser parts or whatever and you can send them out to go get them and install them for you. The average person does that stuff for himself.
Most celebrities don’t even bother with this though. Instead, they spend their time on the boats that other rich people have. Most of them prefer to spend their time on luxury yachts. They hobnob with people who have a lot of money and who like to use that money to treat celebrities to a day out on the water. Sounds nice but I think I’ll stick to owning my own boat. There’s a level of pride in that which you just can’t buy!
Have you every had a director of IT say on the night before the live of a new system, we are also going to bring up this module in its vanilla form to see how it works out. Oh the joys of evil vile scope creep! I’ll share with you a secret, the goal of a scope change process is not to always immediate scream no from the executive ivory towers. A scope change process is to assure that the risk is worth the rewards when it comes to scope change. So let’s talk about how to introduce a scope change process into a chaotic project management culture.
In a chaotic project management culture, the jack of all trades who can do it himself is rewarded, and will look like a cowboy forced to wear a three piece suit when feeling constrained by a scope change management process. Therefore do not introduce a process that constricts and is an obstacle, have it augment efficiency.
There are some common characteristics to a scope change management process.
When starting out, with this new process, I’d recommend the pmo clarifies with the IT leadership what is in and not in a scope management standard. We previously shared a scope management standard which can be used as a starting point for the standard. Also the purpose to a scope management process, has to vet at the decision level necessary the requested changes to project scope. After the IT leadership has agreed it makes sense, start organizing a couple of projects with this in the mix. Open discuss using the process with those project sponsors, and executive sponsors if applicable. The goal here is to gain buyin and suggestions as to a process which will work at your organization.
With a scope change management process your outcomes will be clear, the more time planning a commercial off the shelf implementation, the better the execution, and the lesser degree of scope changes. It will also help to engage the project sponsor.
Further Readings on Taming Chaotic Project Management: