There were over 30 entries to this month’s Project Management Carnival. These are the posts that made the grade: general stuff at the top and then a group of posts about goal setting and objectives at the bottom.

Azra Duric presents ‘Mom’s Project’ posted at Projects in Life. This made me laugh out loud, especially where she describes interactions with her sponsor. Azra writes so well, this one wins my award for best submission this month.

lazymale presents Be accountable. | lap31 “are you ready to lead?” posted at lap31 “are you ready to lead?”. Good article, and nice visual theme too, I like the red.

Rich Maltzman, PMP presents SPEED LIMIT: 7 – Don’t Compromise your Negotiation! posted at Scope crêpe.

Noric Dilanchian presents Project management rules for IT proposals and contracts – Dilanchian Lawyers posted at Lightbulb, saying, “Business drowns in text that waffles on. Focusing on practical considerations helps cull and format proposals and contracts. This post draws on the author’s 25 years of experience as a lawyer writing IT and business contracts.” Yes, it’s an article about contracts. Actually it’s rather good.

Bas presents Filter And Drainage – Trust Running Through The Team posted at Project Shrink: The Blog.

Paul Ritchie presents KM Collection page; Crossderry Blog posted at Crossderry BlogThis post is a collection of Paul’s most-viewed articles on knowledge management. While I don’t agree with his definition of KM in this context I do agree that it’s important to organise institutional project management best practice so that you can repeat it. Plenty of links here.

SJ Yee presents Time Management for Lazy People posted at Personal Development for the Book Smart, saying, “Time is Money. Here’s a detailed summary of the key concepts in the time management lecture by Randy Pausch… You can skim through it to get the points you need…” There is a lot in here and you will have to skim it. The article starts below the fold, which normally annoys me to the point where I will exclude posts that don’t have the main text above the fold, and it includes a photo of some person’s box of tissues. What’s the relevance? However, if you can sift through the info you’ll probably find something useful.

Michael Walsh presents Action Management posted at Business Growth, saying, “Attached is an article that outlines a simple system that if followed will save entrepreneurs anywhere from a half an hour to an hour a day.”

GreatManagement presents On Leadership by Allan Leighton posted at The GreatManagement Blog, saying, “I totally believe if you want to improve a certain skill then you should model yourself on someone who already has had success in that skill.” Which Andrew has done.

Erica Douglass presents Are Your Business Cards Still Stuck In The 1990’s? posted at erica.biz – Erica Douglass challenges you to change your life! What is holding you back from your dreams?, saying, “Are your business cards boring, or do they grab people’s attention right away? I share “four steps to business card bliss” based on conversations with top bloggers.” More relevant to people who run their own business and therefore have control over the look of their business cards, but interesting stuff.

Craig Brown presents Measuring the Cost Benefit of Agile posted at Better Projects, saying, “We’re exploring team blogging here at BetterProjects.net. We are also exploring Agile Projects more and more. He’s a submission for an article written by Janet Rolsma on working business cases for agile, iterative projects.”

Posts on Goals and Objectives

Here’s the first entry on that topic from Joshua C. Karlin presents Powerful Yet Reasonable Goals posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas.

Anya Portnik presents Motivational speaker Gavin Ingham interviews goal setting expert Andy Smith posted at Gavin Ingham. Interesting, and something useful if you are reviewing your Q1 goals at work right now.

Raymond Le Blanc presents Successful Goal Setting in 7 Easy Steps posted at Time Management & Goal Setting.

Louise Manning presents Setting objectives posted at The Human Imprint.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of project management using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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