Keith O’Shea, an Australian project manager I met online when I was writing my book, is doing some research into project management knowledge areas for his PhD. The idea is to identify what project managers know, and how frequently they use those areas of knowledge. I’ve read a lot of research about what [...]

Who doesn’t?  I’m not wild about estimating myself, especially if my project Sponsor has decided that contingency is a just a fancy way of saying ‘I have no idea.’  Which is largely true.  So I was glad to come across this: Joseph Phillips has shared his estimating expertise with the world, in the form of [...]

Welcome to the April 23, 2007 edition of carnival of project management, our monthly round-up of PM news and views.
First up, Syd presents An effective way to solve problems posted at Improve your life with simple tips, saying, “An effective way of solving any kind of problem is by writing it down.”
Laura Ricci has How [...]

Glad to see The University of Edinburgh preparing PhD students for the world of work with this two-day crash course in project management which will be “particularly valuable to students interested in … including project management as part of their career.”
And there was me thinking it was a proper management discipline.

I’ve been looking at projects that fail, and am in two minds about whether to include projects that get stopped. If it’s stopped, has it failed? Or was closing it down the right response, so the business has successfully avoided the cost of completing something that wasn’t worth it? Research commissioned by Microsoft [...]

One of the things people ask me the most is ‘Where can I find useful project management resources online?’ Obviously, this blog is a great place to start. But there are other sites offering great project management advice – you just have to sort through hundreds of Google references to consultancies, training companies [...]

There’s a conference coming up that looks great, so if you are in the UK on 8 June and can make it to Leicester, consider going. Women, Business and Blogging is organised by NLab at De Montfort University, with the objective to consider where women are with business blogging, as the world of work becomes [...]

It’s something I hear a lot: “How did you end up writing a project management book?”
If you are interested in finding out how it all happened, you can listen to me being interviewed on The Writing Show telling all.  And Paula’s put up a very nice picture of me at the book launch too.

Just a quick thank you to Ajay for the great Snap plugin, that gives little preview windows of the links before you click them. Cool idea.

If you tried to access A Girl’s Guide to Project Management over the weekend, you probably came up with an error message.  Your feed might not have worked either.  That’s because I moved servers and upgraded WordPress, all at the same time. Fortunately, I set aside the whole weekend to do it, as technology change [...]