From the monthly archives:

June 2007

The NITLE wiki

June 28, 2007

I’ve added something else to the list of things I’ve found to be useful on the Resources page. This is a wiki from NITLE, a non-profit initiative dedicated to promoting liberal education.
NITLE run a project management workshop for liberal arts colleges, which is interesting in itself as it proves to those skeptics that project [...]

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Carnival of project management #10

June 25, 2007

Welcome to the June 25, 2007 edition of carnival of project management.
Laura Ricci presents The Ways We Sabotage Proposals (And Other Projects) posted at Laura’s Winning Ideas, saying, “Project Managers can sabotage their team when they only intended to push for productivity. Here are ways to maximize productivity but avoid problems.”
Pawel Brodzinski presents Successful Project [...]

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Carnival of project management #10

June 21, 2007

Thanks for all the submissions to the next Carnival!  Submissions are now closed, although late entries will be considered for the July edition.  June’s Carnival will appear on the 25th.

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Getting it right in government

June 20, 2007

The UK Government’s Public Accounts Committee has put together a report called ‘Delivering successful IT-enabled business change,‘ about how government projects are performing.  The report concludes that some projects actually turn out pretty well, but those learnings are not carried across to other projects run by other departments.
This won’t come as a surprise to project [...]

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Things I’ve learned this week

June 18, 2007

Don’t sing in the photocopying room – you never know who will walk in. In fact, don’t sing in the office at all
Johnson’s Holiday Skin body lotion won’t colour your legs, but it will turn your cuticles orange
‘Architected’ (as in ‘having had an architect look at and work on it’) is apparently a word
I [...]

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Making a good business case

June 11, 2007

I found this white paper about putting together a business case on IT Toolbox. It depends on how you interpret the term ‘business case’ but for me this document is more a feasibility study: what is the problem, what could we do about it and what have we decided to do. A ‘pure’ [...]

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Meeting room C

June 4, 2007

New country (well, returning to the one I left). New city. New department. New commute.
My relocation went pretty well, all things considered, although Hans’ confidence in my ability to get everything to the right place was a bit optimistic. I had to buy a new hairbrush, as mine is in storage [...]

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