CAUSE 2005
Good food, good friends, good opportunities to learn and share. My office presented our project management presentation and no one had a stroke at our "cool and edgy" presentation. If you wanted stodgy and boring you wouldn't have a master's in film working on your powerpoint!
We played to a standing room only crowd and got exactly the sort of reaction we expected. More than half were ready to jump onboard right then, some were interested with mild reservation, and of course we had the traditionalist who sat back and repeated their tired mantra over and over again "It can't be done". Those are my favorite folks actually. Those are the ones who will tell you it can't be done, and get steam rolled by you as you do it in spite of their best efforts anyway. It seems like these encounters end in retirement.
One point which was saved for last that I think did sink in was that our new UNC System President is bringing portfolio planning to the UNC system, you can profit by this knowledge and ride out to meet him, or you can be ambushed by it when you least expect it.
After recently getting my personal lesson on the "Power of blogs", a lesson not only to me the blogger but to the audience who took the "That Guy" fable and honestly seemed to learn from it. Thus, I made the decision to blog about project management just as I currently blog about fencing. However, the difference is I will do my PM blogging in a new UNCG PM blog environment. Perhaps next year, we present "Ah the Power of Blog".
Lead, follow, or get out of the way...
