Day 2 of IT Managers Series
I’m in Boston for day 2 of the three-part NERCOMP Workshop Series for IT Managers. I’m thinking with the way the Red Sox have played the last few days, there aren’t going to be a lot of happy people around here in the morning.
Anyways, these day long sessions have been full of great, practical knowledge. Sometimes when I leave a conference session or workshop, I learn some tips and tricks and maybe some a-ha type things, but not a lot of techniques I can start to implement right away.
Not so with this series – each half-day part is chock full of great information I can take back to my campus and start using tomorrow. I’ve already applied many things I learned back in September’s session, and today’s session was no exception – especially the project management section.
My colleague and friend James is here as well and took great notes from the session that I will for sure be referring back to. Dwight Fisher, CIO of Plymouth State, really framed the importance of project management and showed that it can be used on projects of all sizes – from small department projects to years-long projects like an ERP implementation.
He also provided some project management scope and charter documents that I know I will use – I can think of three projects off the top of my head that would greatly benefit from these techniques.
As a bonus, I got to talk for a few minutes with Cynthia Golden, vice president at Educause. I worked for Cynthia at Duquesne University and it was nice to reconnect. I think she also volunteered me for a few Educause and NERCOMP committees, which is fine with me. I’m all about trying to learn as much as I can.
Tomorrow’s an early travel day back to Pennsylvania and hopefully back to campus in time to catch the end of our new president’s inauguration. Don’t worry, we’ll be posting video.
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