The current edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology has an article titled “Help Wanted: Good program management starts at the top, which could be the  industry's problem.” The crux of the article is we've lost the leadership focus on the programmatic aspects of programs for a variety... 

During the dot-com boom, EBITDA became a popular way to measure how healthy a business was. EBITDA scores became the talk of Silicon Valley cocktail parties, where party goers would ask each other, “How soon will you be EBITDA positive?” Today EBITDA remains a valuable, if controversial, number for evaluating... 

Brian Kennemer has extensively commented on the PM 2.0 post of his experience of including cost in number in projects he is familiar with. This trigger my thinking on what the real problem is with many IT projects. It comes down to a fundamental principle of any business, from running IT maintenance to flying to low...