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Program: You Keep Using that Word, I Don’t Think You Know What it Means

November 7, 2025
Branding, Business, Clarity of Thought, Customer & Product, Leadership, Mental Models, Organization & People, Technology & Execution
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Inigo Montoya

I’ve heard “program” used to mean everything from a team to a project plan to a portfolio to lines of code. At some point, someone has to stop and say: you keep using that word—I don’t think it means what you think it means. A shared Taxonomy and Lexicon essential for focus and execution. Without one, organizations descend into semantic chaos. Few places create more confusion than the “P” words: Pfunction, Program, Project, Product, and …Continue reading →

Path To Green

February 16, 2020
Clarity of Thought, Leadership, Technology & Execution
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A Path To Green (PTG) is a clear, crisp, and complete statement describing a team’s plan for getting a project or task from red or yellow status to green. Organizations that routinely deliver results on time hold individuals and teams accountable for delivering those results. Ensuring everyone is clear on the status of deliverables is key to this. More importantly, teams need to have discipline around how they move projects that are a bit off the …Continue reading →