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One of my goals for 2010 is to post at least one original article per week on my blog.  Not 52 for the year, but one per week.  I blew that goal already when I didn't post between Jan 9 and 19, but I caught up and hope to stay on track the rest of the way.  All of this has nothing to do with this post, except that this will be a bonus post since I already have an article scheduled for this week.

Why a Bonus?

The reason I'm writing this bonus post is that I attended our PMI chapter meeting tonight (Space Coast, Florida), and we had Rick Morris speaking to us.  Now Rick doesn't need my endorsement, he's doing quite well as an author, speaker, and consultant with no help from me.  But Rick is clearly a passionate individual and that passion carries right over into project management.  I'm good at getting pumped up about something when someone else is obviously pumped, and that describes Rick tonight.

I haven't seen Rick before and he had to trim down his talk with us since we cut him short on time with our chapter business, but he's one of those guys you can listen to for hours.  I went straight home to check out his blog, PM That Works.  His articles read like he's standing there talking to you, and some of the examples and stories he used in his talk were also posted or referred to in blog articles.  One that wasn't though is an article I found near and dear to my heart, the value of project management.  His article, Determining Business Value for Projects, is the text of what he wrote to a client about their new Portfolio Management Committee and what they should do and what they should measure to get value from their project management.  It very plainly describes factors they should consider and provides a great template for anyone interested to get started down that path.

Thanks for the great talk at our meeting tonight, Rick.  I'm looking forward to hearing you again.