From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Conference presentations

February 25, 2008

There will be no posts for two weeks: I’m taking a holiday. I have a few more notes to write up from the BPUG congress on project, programme and risk management, but if you can’t wait, you can see all the presentations from all the speakers on the congress website here.

Two different approaches to running a PMO

February 21, 2008

For weeks it seems like I’ve not read anything about project management offices, and then all of a sudden two different approaches turn up, like buses. And they are very different. Firstly, there’s the Project Success Plan, from CA. It reads like you are going to find out all about project management but actually it’s [...]

Carnival of project management #17

February 18, 2008

The 17th Carnival of project management will be guest-hosted by Rich Maltzman, who you might remember I interviewed last year about the book he is co-writing, Fiddler on the Project. If you missed the interview, you can read it here. Rich now blogs at Scope Crêpe (what a great name!) and the February carnival will [...]

Winning women

February 16, 2008

Monday is the last day for entries to the BlackBerry Women and Technology Awards, so if you haven’t yet put in your nominations you have the weekend to prepare your submission before the deadline. The two award ceremonies from previous years have been awash with female talent. I’ve been lucky never to come across discrimination [...]

BPUG Awards

February 15, 2008

I thought I’d share with you the official write-up of the fab gala dinner at last week’s conference. They timed the speeches between the courses, so it meant people didn’t leave their dinners to get too cold while they went up to present or collect awards – only at a project management event are things [...]

A successful quote

February 13, 2008

A quote from Andrew Ball’s BPUG presentation: “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill, 1941

Back from the brink

February 12, 2008

Andrew Ball, head of IT Performance Audit at the Audit Commission, was one of the speakers at last week’s BPUG Congress. He spoke during a session in the strategic project and programme management strand about how to cope when projects go wrong. The main thrust of his argument was trying to avoid projects going wrong [...]

Project management search engine

February 11, 2008

If you are new to project management, or just don’t want to wade through pages of irrelevant search results, try Jack’s latest addition to PMConnection. The project management search engine searches around 80 dedicated project management websites and blogs, like Gantthead, PMHut, Projects@Work, Raven’s Brain and of course, this site. That means that when you [...]

Olympic stakeholders

February 10, 2008

I was at the International Congress for Project, Programme and Risk Management last Wednesday and Thursday and listened to some really interesting speakers. Liz Underhill, Programme Manager for the London Olympics Programme, spoke early on the first day about the progress so far on planning for the Games. What struck me about her role is [...]

Fun Works winner!

February 6, 2008

The name out of the hat to win a copy of Fun Works: creating places where people love to work by Leslie Yerkes is Vladimír Petrůj. Vladimír is studying in Olomouc and lives in Uherský Brod in the Czech Republic. Currently he is finishing his Masters studies in Dutch language, culture and philosophy. He works [...]

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