Helicopters are a symbol of project management for me. They give you the chance to see the big picture and yet zoom in and land anywhere there’s a problem.

I meant to post this when it came my way on Tuesday. I subscribed to the US Government Accountability Office updates when I was researching my book. It’s always interesting to read about large-scale projects and programmes that have gone pear-shaped due to poor collaboration between agencies and so on, and the lessons [...]

David Schmaltz always has something interesting to read and I thought his article about project rituals was something worth sharing with you. Over my career, the majority of my projects have involved people who already work together.  I remember working with one team that I had to form from scratch, who had never worked together [...]

I’ve made it easier to subscribe to A Girl’s Guide to Project Mangement by RSS. Click the button on the sidebar to get the RSS feed automatically from Feedburner. So subscribe and get my blog postings and project management hints and news direct to your aggregator!
If I sound excited about this, I am, [...]

If I have enough submissions of good enough quality, I’ll be hosting my first ever Blog Carnival here on August 7th. So if you have a blog posting that explores an element of project management, submit it on the Blog Carnival site and you might see it referenced here!

The sales are on in Paris at the moment. This isn’t a picture of the army controlling the rush – it’s the 14 July parade on the Champs Elysees. The sales are government-controlled, so all shops have a sale at the same time and sales at any other moment are forbidden. On [...]

So there’s no post this week.
Normal service will resume after the 14 July bank holiday.
In the meantime, have a look at this article from TechRepublic this week.  It’s about how to train your boss to be nice to you and could apply just as well to project sponsors.  I’d be interested in what you think – [...]

You might remember I have written before about the Gypsy Moth IV project. It was a project to restore Sir Francis Chichester’s yacht and sail it around the world. Unfortunately, the objectives of the project have now changed considerably. Gypsy Moth IV ran aground and now the objective is to salavage something [...]