From the monthly archives:

August 2006

Interesting links from interesting people

August 31, 2006

I wanted to share with you some links that have come my way – not about project management but interesting none the less.
Zonetag is being trialled in the US by Yahoo! Take a photo with your mobile, upload it to Flikr and it’ll put Geotags on the Flickr page of exactly where you were [...]

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How not to communicate with customers #1

August 27, 2006

My phone rings at work.
“Hello? I’m calling about the leak.”
“What leak? What’s happened?”
“The leak from upstairs.”
Oh. My pulse goes back to normal. Small leak, small insurance claim, opportunity to meet my upstairs neighbour in a situation where he wasn’t telling me I couldn’t install a smoke alarm because it was against building [...]

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Book review: Naked Conversations

August 24, 2006

Blogging and other forms of social media are changing the relationship between organisations and their clients by stimulating a two-way conversation.

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Taking a risk with cerise-chocolat

August 21, 2006

This weekend I did something I’ve never done before. I dyed my hair. Call it a nearing-30 crisis, a moment of folly in Auchan, the inspiration of my sister’s perfect highlights… Anyway, armed with a box of little tubes, powders and liquids we set to work Saturday afternoon.
I am generally quite risk-averse. [...]

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Diary date: 27 November 2006

August 17, 2006

Now I thought that once a book was written and available that the author’s work was pretty much done. Not so, it seems. The book project appears to have a never-ending end date, despite the fact that the major deliverable will be out at the beginning of November.
I’m really pleased to have been [...]

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Carnival of project management #1

August 14, 2006

Welcome to the August 14, 2006 edition of carnival of project management, a round-up of PM articles on other blogs.
Pawel Brodzinski presents When Everything Goes Wrong posted at Software Project Management, which, according to him, “advises how a leader/manager should act when everything goes wrong in a project.”
My Bubble Life presents My Bubble Life: GTD [...]

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Estimating part 2

August 9, 2006

Now my brain is less fuddled due to not being in the heat quite so much, I can explain my theory on estimating project tasks.
Start with the basics. What needs to happen? How long will each task take? The answers to these questions will allow you to pull together a timeline.
Try to [...]

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Blogging for projects

August 7, 2006

You might remember that earlier in the year I said there would be more on the subject of blogging for project teams.  You can read my article, Blogging Your Project at Projects@Work this week.

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Estimating during the heatwave

August 7, 2006

With the canicule that France is suffering from at the moment, the weather is the talk of the town. The heatwave has surpassed the general French favourite of food as the topic of the moment and it is one good reason to work long hours – at least we have air conditioning in the [...]

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