From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Two resources for jargon

May 31, 2007

Don’t know your ALO from your elbow? Business Balls has a long list of business (and other) acronyms to help you decode all those TLA’s. It’s not the prettiest site in the world, but functional and full of other resources too like team building games.
If you’re stuck with the jargon of project management, [...]

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Carnival of project management #9

May 27, 2007

The moving went as well as could be expected, although a few important things (like my hairbrush) ended up in storage instead of going with me. I’ve settled into my temporary accommodation now – and hopefully it won’t be too long before my apartment is ready and I can move in properly. So [...]

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Moving

May 17, 2007

I’m moving house, so I will be temporarily separated from my PC. Even the thought of it gives me shivers. I knew it was going to happen, so this is a project I’ve been planning mainly on paper. All my notes are in a spiral bound book, which goes with me everywhere.
Having said [...]

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Writing nine to five

May 14, 2007

Those of you who know I’m interested in literature won’t be surprised to hear that I found Joshua Ferris’ article for The Guardian interesting. Office life does turn up every now and then in fiction: project management even gets a passing mention.This article came out a good three weeks ago (21 April) and it’s [...]

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Are you part of an outstanding organisation?

May 10, 2007

The October 2007 issue of PM Network magazine will spotlight a group of outstanding organisations in project management (for-profit, non-profit or governmental organisations) – and yours could be one of them.
They are after nominations from individuals who feel their organisation meets the criteria, which are:

Developing a project management career path
Pioneering best practices or demonstrated innovation [...]

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A bald dog can teach us new tricks

May 7, 2007

I’ve been tracking down examples for project failure, mainly in the UK, and Tom “Bald Dog” Varjan contacted me with some reasons why he thinks projects are unsuccessful. His points are really interesting, so I thought I’d share them with you.
Tom’s business cards introduce him as “Bald Dog, Organisational Provocateur,” so I’m sure that [...]

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Carnival of project management #9

May 6, 2007

The next Carnival should be on 21 May, so submissions by 18 May please.  If you have an interesting article about project management that you think other people should be reading, then pop over to Blog Carnival and submit it for consideration.  Thanks to the two people who have submitted already – there’s always space [...]

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Forthcoming book review

May 5, 2007

My review copy of Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse Users (ed: Jonathan Lazar) turned up this week.  It’s hot off the press, and a flip through shows that there are some really interesting topics covered.  Once The Computer Journal gives me the go-ahead, I’ll post the review here.
It’s something to read while it [...]

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More problems in public service projects

May 4, 2007

I’m glad I’m not the project manager tasked with trying to make sense out of the US Transport Security project. Can you imagine? All those different US Government agencies pitching in with their ideas.
One of the case studies for my book was about the difficulties two US Government departments had trying to agree [...]

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Parcels and planes: two case studies

May 3, 2007

The British Computer Society held an event at the end of February that I couldn’t make it to, but they’ve put a summary of the speeches online.  The two case studies presented look really interesting, especially the British Airways one.  It’s always good when people bother to do a write-up of events they have attended.  [...]

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