Carnival of project management #16
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Welcome to the January 28, 2008 edition of carnival of project management. As there wasn’t a carnival in December this is a bumper edition.
Thomas Cutting presents December 10, 2007 - Burnt by Hiring a Newbie posted at Cutting’s Edge Project Management , saying, “Promised a solid PM to replace an existing on, the agency I was working with sent a Newbie. Guess I didn’t ask the right questions. This entry offers 3 good questions to weed out the bad prospects.”
Bas presents Dealing With Cultural Differences In Projects posted at Project Shrink: The Blog. Since working in France I’ve been really interested in cultural differences, so this one rang true with me.
Edith has submitted two articles to this month’s carnival, and I’m going to break my own rules by including them both. Firstly, we have The 5 Rules of Writing Effective Email posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act, which is a straightforward reminder of email good practice. Secondly, she’s submitted 33 Do’s and Don’ts for Your Next Presentation, which is a pretty comprehensive list - and it’s quite topical as we are entering the Spring conference season (although the tips are good for internal presentations too).
Craig Brown presents 3 Great Knowledge Management tools for Project Managers posted at Better Projects, saying, “All blog readers like lists. Here is a short list of useful Information Systems that can help an organisation become more effective at project management. (And while you are visiting don’t forget to check out the Carnival of Business Analysts.)” Yes, Craig: you know we love the Carnival of Business Analysts!
Ivan Rios presents How to Win Negotiations By Seeking Differences posted at artofleading.net.
Brandon Henak presents 5 Gifts for Young Professional Women posted at Newly Corporate, saying, “5 great gifts for the young female PM.” Or any young woman. This is a really interesting blog. Having been working for the last decade, I doubt that I qualify as ‘newly corporate’ but I’m glad to have discovered this blog.
Charles H. Green presents Destroying Shareholder Value: One Quarter, One Customer at a Time on his blog Trust Matters, saying, “When focusing on the project, remember that projects come and go, and constitute only one part of a business relationship.” This is a good reminder that sometimes it is better to do what is right for the long term. We spend a lot of time on short term milestones, but don’t ever forget the big picture.
Bootstrapper presents Jessica Hupp’s article How to: Turn Your Desk Into a Productivity Zone.
SpiKe presents How To Regularly Rate Your Performance posted at Organize IT. An interesting idea, although maybe a bit too navel-gazing for me. Let me know if you try it!
Goldfish presents SMART Goals are Stupid posted at Contrarian Goldfish. More and more blogs seem to be putting Google Ads above the fold, but if you can bear them, this is an interesting, contrary way of looking at SMART.
Paul Ritchie presents Metrics Lessons Learned Series posted at Crossderry Blog, saying, “I’ve pulled together some of my PMO metrics posts into the meta post linked to above.” Thanks, Paul. Crossderry looks like it is going to be an interesting blog, so I hope Paul stays the course.
John Gough presents The London Olympics is a ‘Live’ Project Management Case Study
on iJournal. You never know the complete costs of the project until it’s over. By definition, actual spend isn’t actual until it’s spent. But John, the Olympics are going to be worth following to see how the various build projects unfold.
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