Welcome to the July 30, 2007 edition of carnival of project management.
Pawel Brodzinski presents Brainstorming Meetings More Effective posted at Software Project Management, saying, “Several advices how to achieve better outcome from brainstorming.”
Matt Hanson presents Matt’s Creative Advertising Blog » Blog Archive » Building Visibility with Promotional Umbrellas posted at Matt’s Creative [...]

People seen commuting reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 6
(Total reading it with the adult cover: 1)
From the media frenzy and the queues outside Waterstones on Piccadilly I was expecting half of London to be squashed on the tube with a copy. Did everyone finish it on Sunday? Or have they, like [...]

I found out about this survey of women working in IT from Thus Spake Zuska. If you are working in IT (and are female) you might want to take the time to fill in their questionnaire. It says it takes 20 minutes, but only if you are slow.
From the survey website:

The K-12 Informal [...]

I’ve been travelling a lot recently. I don’t mind travelling but I do hate having to lug my laptop around on public transport. It makes me too wide to get down the aisle on the train and the bag is too big to fit neatly under the seat on the bus. As [...]

This research by CIO Connect won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has had the slightest involvement in projects. Yes, IT projects fail without the element of business and people change.
It amazes me that people still think in terms of ‘IT projects’ at all. Even a ‘pure’ IT project like an infrastructure [...]

If you’ve been following my four-part series of how to get a project management job over at Projects@Work you might be interested in this article, about how to produce a fabulous cover letter to go alongside your polished CV.

The next Carnival of Project Management, a round-up of all the best blogging about project management, will be on 30 July.
There’s been a bit of a glitch – my fault, really, as I changed the settings on the Blog Carnival page – and all submissions have accidentally been deleted.
If you have submitted something to the [...]

I’ve been working in London eight weeks now and I’m getting used to the early starts, the over-crowded public transport and the dirt that seems to cling to the inside of my nostrils every day. I occasionally hear French voices in the street, and it makes me more inclined not to let my own [...]

In a new job, it’s hard to know what details are important and what you can let slip in one ear and out the other. So I’ve been trying to soak up everything – a strategy which has been moderately successful. I’ve picked up a lot of low-level detail and, not yet knowing [...]

I’ve just read Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders, and there’s a whole section on different types of meetings, what they are for and how they work. I read it and thought, ‘Everyone knows how to run a meeting, surely?’ Having said that, I’m spending a lot of time in and [...]