Blog Award Nomination
May 30, 2007
I am very pleased to announce that this blog has been selected as a finalist in the PMI-SAC award for Project Management Literature. The other entries include Dr. Janaka Ruwanpura , Dr. George Jergeas, and Mohamed Moussa who have written (amongst... Read more...
Selling into Project Success
May 30, 2007
Why is it that we hear so much about project failure in the Information/Technology (IT) world? Is it justified? For example, Jim Highsmith observes (elsewhere):1 "The Standish Group's Chaos reports (1994 and 2001) have caused a tremendous... Read more...
Project Document Management (Tip 07-002)
May 30, 2007
The Rational Portfolio Manager Document view provides project document control functions for document lifecycle management including document creation, review, approval and distribution through a collaborative workflow system. Documents are managed through... Read more...
Stress Busters
May 29, 2007
With two teenage daughters at home I know stress. In order to be effective and productive we all need to manage stress so that it doesn't control our actions (think road rage). I think we all can agree that project management can be stressful, however... Read more...
The PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam is NOT Dumbing Down
May 29, 2007
It seems that the PRINCE2 Exam Board is now pretty committed to a radical change in the Practitioner Exam. This will see the end of essay-type questions in favour of a 'multiple reasoning' – as my colleague, Andrew Rock, calls it – question book,... Read more...