A Girl’s Guide to Managing Products?
July 11, 2008
If you’ve come here as a result of the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards, after searching for A Girl’s Guide to Managing Products, then you’re in the right place. It’s not the name of the blog, and you won’t find anything about... Read more...
Best Practice presentations
July 9, 2008
The presentations from the Best Practice Showcase last month are now available online. I’ve just been listening to The Role of MSP within Siemens and it’s the first time I’ve seen anything in this online web presentations format. It’s quite cool,... Read more...
Closing down projects
July 6, 2008
15% of all projects are shut down before they complete, according to Microsoft. There’s various different reasons for this, and companies should handle closing down projects with sensitivity. Here’s a video clip of me in discussion with Deborah... Read more...
Award nomination!
July 3, 2008
A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects has been shortlisted for the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2008. I’d be very grateful if you’d consider voting for me, if you consider this blog worthy of the accolade! Deadline for voting is 31... Read more...
Carnival of Project Management #21
July 2, 2008
Welcome to the June/July 2008 edition of carnival of project management. Yes, we’re going bi-monthly, so the next edition will be August/September. To tide you over until then, here are the entries for this edition. Rich Maltzman, PMP presents... Read more...
Equal pay - your chance to speak!
June 27, 2008
Intellect are running their equal pay survey again this year so if you have five minutes to spare to comment on equal pay audits and the perception of equal pay, then click over to the survey and fill it in. This is being carried out as part of Intellect’s... Read more...
This weekend’s back up project
June 27, 2008
Regular readers will know that I’m always nervous of doing WordPress upgrades, and there seems to be a greater frequency of releases at the moment, so I’m about to embark on another this weekend. So, if the blog disappears for a short while,... Read more...
How was your Friday?
June 23, 2008
I’ve been going through my emails after being away and I came across the FeedBlitz alert for Craig Brown’s blog post How was your Friday? So in answer to the question, here’s how it was: 9.30 Wake up 10.00 Breakfast on the balcony: Greek yoghurt... Read more...
Failing projects: the presentation
June 11, 2008
I’m giving a talk in Nottingham next month. It’s been a while since I’ve been that far north. I always got really excited being driven through the town when I was younger, as Robin Hood could have been in the forest somewhere. ... Read more...
A glossary of terms
June 9, 2008
I came across this recently. If you are new to project management you might find it interesting. It’s TechRepublic’s glosssary of PM terms, which you can use as a starting point for getting to grips with a whole new language. It’s... Read more...