Gantthead’s CEO, Dave Garrett, just posted an interview he had with Jim Herries, Program Manager, Business Products at ESRI discussing ESRI’s adoption of Clarizen in their organization. In this excerpt from the full article, he focuses on user adoption and how Clarizen’s user interface, usability and functionality made the introduction and adoption within the organization seamless. 

Thanks for checking out this week’s post in the Blog Series: What Makes a Great Project Manager. Last week we discussed a critical trait that any successful project manager must possess; Leadership. Let’s move on to today’s characteristics; Team Building and Motivation.

 Much has lately been written and said about the most critical success factors for projects. What all these insights have in common is the fact that the project manager’s personality is a critical and central success factor.

As I mentioned in the previous blog, all the Program & Portfolio Management sessions at Gartner’s ITxpo Symposium were overcrowded.

In October 2009 I attended the Gartner ITxpo Symposium – one of the largest gatherings of CIOs and IT leaders in the world.

One of the main challenges for businesses is to be able to react quickly to change. The Real Time Enterprise is the right approach to business execution where working with customers, suppliers and partners as an inherent part of the company that encapsulates a common framework of actions and objectives.

Now of all times, a complex era fraught with many business challenges is the project manager’s finest hour.