My dissertation research and prior work centers heavily on project-based work. I did not intend to study project management originally. It simply emerged that work life is getting organized around projects, particularly high tech work and strategic work - my areas of consulting and study. As a result, I have become a project management researcher. One basic project management resource everyone should know is the Project Management Institute.

I recently received a grant from the Salesforce.com Foundation for approximately $15,000 annually, indefinitely extendible. I have been using the software provided to explore the intergration and ease-of-use potential of software services on demand and how they provide workflow capacity to businesses.

I have also been developing and experimenting with open-source workflow tools including the Galaxia workflow tool and the workflow module in Drupal. None has particularly impressed me as well-done yet, even the more complex ones that enable full flow modeling, simulation, and optimization