From the monthly archives:

May 2006

RSS update

May 31, 2006

Following feedback from you, I’ve changed the RSS settings so you should now get full posts and not truncated versions if you subscribe to the blog using RSS. Let me know if it’s not working!

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Lipstick Project Management and Liberia

May 29, 2006

I caught Inside Africa at the weekend and heard Swanee Hunt from the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard talking about the role Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is playing in furthering the involvement of women in government. Hunt said that the President is taking a ‘feminine’ approach to her first months in [...]

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Finally, I feel like a PM again…

May 25, 2006

This post is late too.  Sorry – it won’t become a regular habit, but here’s a warning for next Monday:  as I’m getting the sleeper train back from Nice late Sunday night I doubt I’ll be in much of a state to post anything lucid after getting off the train and going straight to work.
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Seeking out answers

May 16, 2006

Sorry this post is a day late – I have been distracted with visitors and the Eurostar Da Vinci Code Quest.
I gave my presentation on Scope Management to the British Computer Society’s Project Management Specialist Group on Thursday, which went well.  Download the presentation here.  They were kind enough to give me a souvenir paperweight [...]

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WiPM

May 8, 2006

There are 2,552 members in the Women in Project Management special interest group of the Project Management Institute, which, all credit to them, makes that group the 5th largest virtual group within the giant which is the PMI. And some of those members are men.
Frankly, I’m not surprised that the WiPM group is doing [...]

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Licences and long timescales

May 1, 2006

Touching wood last week must have worked as lo and behold, after a few days of stamping my feet in a Gallic way my licences have arrived.  And I already have one very happy client holding meetings with our Australian office, albeit rather cruelly on a Friday morning.  Which is 6.30 pm Oz-time, when our [...]

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